‘Y: The Last Man’ TV adaptation heading to FX
Before there was Saga, Brian K. Vaughan was most known for the fantastic Y: The Last Man. And while adaptations (both film, and television) have been kicked around, it appears that it’s finally happening! Really happening!
Littered though the TV landscape is with comic book adaptations, fan-favorite Y: The Last Man has become a running joke in the industry, having proven infamously difficult to get off the ground as a feature. Now, FX may finally have gotten the beloved Brian K. Vaughan/Pia Guerra comic in development as a TV series. Alas, poor Yorick.
The Hollywood Reporter claims that FX has partnered with Vaughan, Color Force’s Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson (The Hunger Games, American Crime Story) to develop the sci-fi comic as an ongoing series, with the search underway for a writer and potential director. New Line had previously acquired the rights in in 2007, setting David Goyer, Carl Ellsworth and director D.J. Caruso to adapt Y: The Last Man as a single film, before rights reverted to Vaughan in 2014.
For those unaware of the 60-issue series written by Vaughan and drawn by Guerra starting in 2002, Y: The Last Man follows the aftermath of an apocalyptic event in which almost every male on Earth simultaneously dies out, save for twenty-something amateur escape artist Yorick, and his pet monkey Ampersand. The pair team with secret agent “355″ and a young doctor to travel the country in search of Yorick’s girlfriend Beth, and an answer to the worldwide plague.
Honestly, Y: The Last Man has been a no-brainer for TV treatment for years now, what with the hunger for comic properties, and a nearly all-female cast sure to draw positive progress from a male-skewed industry. FX wouldn’t comment on potential development, but might we finally get the Y: The Last Man series we deserve? Let’s get to fan-casting!