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By FavaBeans | July 27, 2008
January 30, 2008: In an interview with the USA Today about the last issue of Pia Guerra and Brian K. Vaughan’s “Y: The Last Man,” the director of the comic’s upcoming adaptation, D.J. Caruso (Disturbia, upcoming Eagle Eye), says it might become a trilogy of films: Caruso says he has had “preliminary discussions” with Shia LaBeouf to play Yorick. “For me, thematically, the most important thing and the reason I want to do this is … I don’t want to say it’s the end of the innocence, but it’s actually a man-child who has to become a real man now,” Caruso says. “I think it’s a really simple, beautiful theme, but at the same time, the movie’s really pop-culture entertainment.” While the original plan was to squeeze the entire series into one movie, Caruso says the film will cover the first 14 issues of the comics. He adds that this opens the door for a trilogy. Thanks to ‘Superherohype’ for the heads up!
August 27, 2007: Disturbia director D.J. Caruso, who is reteaming with Shia LaBeouf (Indiana Jones 4) for the upcoming Eagle Eye, tells MTV he thinks the actor would work for his adaptation of Y: The Last Man: “This is funny, but unbeknownst to me: Shia was already chasing this part prior to anything,” Caruso said. “I haven’t talked to him yet about it because he’s off shooting ‘Indiana Jones 4,’ but Shia is the right type and the right personality because you want to have the humor, but you also want to have the seriousness. So we’ll talk about it when we get there.” In a random sampling outside New York’s Midtown Comics, fans told MTV News they could see Mark Ruffalo, Ryan Gosling and Tobey Maguire as good Yoricks. (Vaughan himself has no opinion, saying his “cop-out answer” is that the only Yorick he can imagine is the one on the page.) 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. Carl Ellsworth is writing the screenplay for New Line. – Thanks to ‘Superherohype’ for the news!
July 25, 2007: New Line has set D.J. Caruso to direct and Carl Ellsworth to write the comic book adaptation Y: The Last Man for producers Chris Bender, JC Spink, Mason Novick and David Goyer, reports Variety. The project reteams Caruso and Ellsworth following their work for Paramount/DreamWorks on Disturbia. 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. The comic “Y: The Last Man” was created by Brian K. Vaughn and Pia Guerra and published by Vertigo. -Thanks to ‘Superherohype’ for the news!
March 2, 2007: As reported on DarkHorizons: “Y: The film adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan’s “Y: The Last Man” comic series looks to be dead in the water a year after it was announced over at New Line Cinema. “It’s not in development hell. It’s in development heck. I finished the screenplay a few months ago. Everybody at New Line seemed to like it. For Hollywood, it’s either really fast or it’s really slow, and it’s really slow right now. I’ve done my job and it’s out to directors now and it could be totally out of my control after this” said Vaughan at the New York Comic Con last weekend according to Slashfilm.”
April 18, 2006: CHUD talked to comic book writer Brian K. Vaughan who revealed he is currently writing the screenplay for Y: The Last Man: “Yeah, I’m really in the loop. In fact I would upgrade it from development hell to development limbo, maybe. I am actually writing the screenplay right now for Y: The Last Man; they’re letting me take a shot at it. It’s been really good. The input I’ve gotten so far has been really positive.” Previously it was reported that Jeff Vintar (”I, Robot”) was writing the script for the adaptation for New Line, with David Goyer producing. – Thanks to ‘Superherohype’ for the news!
April 28, 2004: Comic creator Brian Vaughn indicated he would like to see Topher Grace for the main role for the film adaptation of his just optioned propert.
October 9, 2003: According to CHUD.com and Cinescape, Jeff Vintar will be adapting Vertigo’s comic Y The Last Man for David Goyer who will be directing the movie. Thanks to CHUD.com for the news!
May 16, 2003: Coming Attractions at Cinescape says that the sci-fi comic book series Y: The Last Man has been optioned by New Line Cinema as a feature film. The Vertigo/DC Comics series was created by writer Brian K. Vaughan and artist Pia Guerra.
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