It was reported back in January that New Line was dangerously close to lose the rights to adapt Brian K. Vaughn's Vertigo comic, Y: The Last Man to the big screen, and now it seems that they have indeed lost it.
Earlier today Portal: no Escape short
director Dan Trachtenberg, who was been hired to helm the adaptation, offered
the final update on the project.
Not happening. But it's in trusted hands (the creators). RT @AndyWagnerActor: Any updates on your Y:TLM screen adaptation? #bigfan
— Dan Trachtenberg (@DannyTRS) 25 setembro 2014
Here is what Trachtenberg said:
The rights reverted back to Brian quite a
few months ago.
I had such a great time working on that project and am
truly sad the things we were cooking up can no longer happen.
Like everyone else who’s a fan of the series I had
always wished it either remain in its comic book form. Or, if it must be made,
a TV series would be the only thing that would suffice.
However, the “big screen” and the “small screen” has
changed drastically since Y came out and I think so much of the great TV in our
current “golden age” has been directly or indirectly inspired by Y the Last
Man. I started getting excited about bringing to the BIG screen what we’ve been
getting in TV so readily now— great characters, RELATIONSHIPS, world building
and genre re-combination.
Truly- I was excited to make an ADVENTURE
movie, with swashbuckle, that was fun and funny but had something to say. Which
is something that is distinctly BKV. Having real, true, honest ,people stuff
amidst the big, fun, action stuff. We were in many ways quite faithful to the
comic, though some characters were combined and some events re-arranged and
some brief moments of action we dug into to create bigger action/adventure
sequences.
The script was essentially the first two trades.
Taking inspiration from the original Star Wars (Episode 4)- we wanted to tell a
complete story…but not the whole story. Hoping that, in success, we could
get tell the rest of our serialized adventure.
Raiders of the Lost Ark was referenced a
lot. Midnight Run and Big Trouble in Little China were referenced a
lot. Willow and Ladyhawke I may have referenced a little too often…
In the end, working with all the producers and the
writers was a great experience. And getting to meet Brian, who has been such an
inspiration to me over the years was incredible. He’s as great a person as he
is a writer. And now Y the Last Man is back where it should be, with its
creator.
I’m not sure Brian will ever want to do anything more with
it and I’m not sure that he needs to. His latest comics SAGA and THE PRIVATE
EYE are great and we should be reading them. His “never-been-made” screenplays
are some of my favorite reads ever (Roundtable, specifically). I hope we
can convince him to write us some more awesome original movies and TV— but I
think comics is where his heart lies.
Alas…we will always have that thing we fell in love
with— that’s not going anywhere…
Trachtenberg goes on to suggest that
script, budget, and casting were not the main reasons for the film early grave.
Source - /film
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