Brian K. Vaughan is teaming-up with FX and Color
Force's Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson to bring his Y: The Last Man graphic
novel to the small screen.
The search for a writer that will help Vaughan adapt
his dystopian vision of the future is currently underway. A director for the
series has yet to be approached since the project is still very much in
development at this stage.
Y: The Last Man, winner of
three Eisner Awards and one of the most critically acclaimed, best-selling
comic books series of the last decade, is that rare example of a page-turner
that is at once humorous, socially relevant and endlessly surprising. Written
by Brian K. Vaughan (Lost, PRIDE OF BAGHDAD, EX MACHINA) and with
art by Pia Guerra, this is the saga of Yorick Brown—the only human survivor of
a planet-wide plague that instantly kills every mammal possessing a Y
chromosome. Accompanied by a mysterious government agent, a brilliant young
geneticist and his pet monkey, Ampersand, Yorick travels the world in search of
his lost love and the answer to why he's the last man on earth.
This isn't the first time an adaptation of Y: The Last
Man is attempted. Back in 2007, New Line acquired the film rights to the
property from Vertigo and set David Goyer, Carl Ellsworth, and D.J. Caruso in
charge of bringing Vaughan's work to the big screen, which obviously never
happened as New Line refused to produce the three-film franchise that Caruso
asked for.
In 2012, another attempt was made, this time with
Jericho's Matthew Federman and Stephen Scaia, but negotiations fell apart, and
in September of 2014 Vaughan announced that the rights were reverting back to
him and that further attempts at adapting the project had been scrapped.
Source - THR
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