The creative team behind the Rear Window-like Disturbia will help bring the Vertigo comic series Y: The Last Man to the big screen.
D.J. Caruso will direct and Carl Ellsworth will write the adaptation for producers Chris Bender, JC Spink, Mason Novick and David Goyer, Variety says.
The trade describes the story as follows: "The story centers on a mysterious plague killing nearly all the world's male mammals overnight. A magician who's the only survivor among this group and his male pet monkey set out to find what may have wiped out the male chromosomes."