Y: The Last Man Heading to FX
After circling several levels of development hell, it finally looks as though we’ll see a live-action adaptation of Brian K. Vaughn’s Y: The Last Man - thanks to FX.
The comic book series, created by Vaughn and Pia Guerra, focuses on Yorick Brown, an amateur escape artist who becomes the lone male human survivor after a mysterious plague kills everyone else with a Y chromosome — including all male animals. Well, except, that is, for his pet capuchin monkey, Ampersand.
Now living in a world entirely filled with women, Yorick heads out on a mission to discover why the tragedy befell the world and to look for his girlfriend Beth, who he last heard was halfway across the world in Australia.
There have been abortive attempts to bring it to the big screen – New Line had been struggling to adapt the comic book series into a film for years, with people such as D.J. Caruso, David Goyer and Shia LaBeouf all involved in various incarnations.
However the sprawling tale just never quite seemed to fit the more limited running time of film. Which is where Vaughn, alongside Color Force producers Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson are developing the idea for US cable channel FX.
For the moment, it’s still very much under development – producers are talking with potential writers to work with Vaughn - however it’s a more positive step than yet another trip around cinematic development hell.