New Lease on Life For Y: THE LAST MAN; Studio Hires Writers

New Lease on Life For Y: THE LAST MAN; Studio Hires Writers

THR report that Matthew Federman and Stephen Scaiai are in final negotiations to pen an adaptation of Brian K. Vaughn's excellent Vertigo series for the big screen..

By MarkCassidy - Mar 14, 2012 06:03 PM EST
Filed Under: Y: The Last Man
Source: THR

Yorick fans will be pleased, as it appears the long in development Y: The Last Man adaptation has sprang back to life at New Line. Well, they have hired a new writing team at least, lets see how much further it goes. But for now THR have the good news..



Writing duo Matthew Federman and Stephen Scaia are in final negotiations to write New Line Cinema's adaptation of the acclaimed Vertigo comic book. J.C. Spink, Chris Bender and David Goyer are producing. Mason Novick is executive producing.


D.J. Caruso was originally attached to direct the movie with a script by Carl Ellsworth, but now Federman and Scaia are said to be starting from scratch. Whether Caruso is still attached or not is unknown. The new writing duo only have one feature under their belt - they are currently working on Sony’s untitled Zorro origin project - but they have plenty of TV credits on their resumes including Charlie’s Angels, Human Target, Warehouse 13 and Jericho.

For those unfamiliar with the comic, Y: The Last Man is an Eisener award winning series from Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra. It deals with Yorick Brown, a young amateur escape artist and his male Capuchin monkey, Ampersand - the only living mammals with a Y chromosome left alive on Earth. It ran for 60 issues back in 2002 under the DC Vertigo imprint.









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sexfoodcomics
sexfoodcomics - 3/14/2012, 7:10 PM
booo not for the theater, it needs to be an AMC series
TheSnuggler
TheSnuggler - 3/14/2012, 7:23 PM
Zachary Levi for Yorick
soberchimera
soberchimera - 3/14/2012, 7:27 PM
All I can say is keep Shia LaBoeuf THE [frick]!!!! away from this.
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 3/14/2012, 7:30 PM
Who should play Agent 355?
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 3/14/2012, 7:33 PM
Oh, and [frick] issue #58 of thsi series..I erased it from my mind:)
P862010
P862010 - 3/14/2012, 7:38 PM
@RORMachine

Zoe Saldana would'nt be bad
P862010
P862010 - 3/14/2012, 7:54 PM
^y is way too cinematic for tv it would be dumbed down on low tv budget
P862010
P862010 - 3/14/2012, 8:09 PM
walking dead is pretty grounded it is a just a zombie show not very cinematic or anything with great visuals and action scenes hell even most zombie flicks like 28 days later only cost 8 million lol
neonhero
neonhero - 3/14/2012, 8:21 PM
I wouldn't mind seeing a film adaptation, except like most long form comic stories I think a tv series on a good station would serve the story better. AMC, HBO or Showtime.
CapWriter
CapWriter - 3/14/2012, 8:51 PM
Totally agree. This needs to be a TV mini-series, preferably on HBO, but if it has to be regular cable, then yes, AMC would do it right. A trilogy in theaters will not do it justice.
brewtownpsych
brewtownpsych - 3/14/2012, 8:52 PM
needs to be a tv miniseries ... also, heavy on the lesbian stuff.
KingEmperor
KingEmperor - 3/14/2012, 9:34 PM
Y: The Last Man is the best graphic novel I've ever read, but I have a feeling that a big screen version of this epic is gonna tank. Like, hard.
thetrojan
thetrojan - 3/15/2012, 12:44 AM
i want to do the opening titles and theme tune
SERIOUSLY!
WarnerBrother
WarnerBrother - 3/15/2012, 12:54 AM
I agree that Y the last man would be better served by a mini series.On the other hand, it's kind of alarming that between this,Mandrake,The Dark Tower and the 300 companion film, WB seems to have made the decision to not put forward any post Batman DC film series aside from Superman.Hopefully a big opening weekend for The Avengers will motivate DC /WB to move forward on The Flash or a revamped Green Lantern sequel.Ether way they pretty much would have to green light something by this years Comic -Con season to get a DC film ready by 2014.
Banner123
Banner123 - 3/15/2012, 10:36 AM
Amazing. It was Y that got me back into comics/graphic novels after about a 10 year hiatus. Without that I would have never read The Ultimates or become obsessed with The Walking Dead amongst other reads. Hopefully they will do it justice
13echo
13echo - 3/15/2012, 3:53 PM
I agree with my fellow nerds on this one it needs to be a series hbo or showtime could do it justice. To good a story to take a chance of them screwing up onthe big screen.
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