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New Line May Be Pondering a Y: The Last Man Movie Again

by Susana Polo | 12:35 pm, September 11th, 2012


Y: The Last Man has had a lot of time to make it from the comics pages to the big or small screen, and now that The Walking Dead, another long-running, popular-outside-the-average-comic-reader post apocalyptic title has shown its staying power, one wonders why Y: The Last Man hasn’t been put into production before.

If you ask me, it’s probably because studios have balked at the idea of a cast made up almost entirely of women. But according to Vulture, New Line Cinema is stepping up to the plate.

I’d always envisioned Y: The Last Man as a television series that would by necessity employ every actress working in the business at some point, but New Line is thinking a bit bigger. From Vulture:

We hear that the studio is very pleased with a draft from former Jericho writers Matthew Federman and Stephen Scaia, and has already begun the process of meeting with director candidates to hire for the project.

Vulture even goes as far as saying that Y: The Last Man is one of New Line’s top priorities.

For the uninitiated, Y follows the story of a young man named Yorick and his helper-monkey-in-training Ampersand, somehow the only living male mammals on Earth after the sudden and instantaneous death of the rest. While on a micro scale the comic series is about the mystery of Yorick and Ampersand’s survival, Yorick’s quest to get to his girlfriend in Australia, and the women who help, hinder, study, and try to get him to take the more responsible path, on the macro level it plays out the fascinating results of a gendered culling of the human race. Commercial airliners fall out of the sky. The only surviving elected American senators and representatives are Democrats. The Israeli armed forces are suddenly one of the strongest in the world. Three astronauts, one female, two male, orbit the globe in terrible isolation until they run out of food and fuel, the space program that supported them devastated.

If the project goes ahead, it’ll be interesting to see how New Line frames the long and twisting narrative, and how many of the human details of survival and loss remain after it is condensed to movie length.

(via The Beat.)

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  • BK Spidey

    It should be a television series or mini series. It won’t work as a 2 hour movie.

  • http://twitter.com/thelambandtea The Lamb

    What ever they do, can Shia Labeouf be kept as far away as possible?

  • http://www.facebook.com/lindsey.stock.7 Lindsey Stock

    I’ve had my hopes crushed too many times already to get them up now. I’ll wait until production starts.

  • http://www.facebook.com/moxieblue Bryn Clark

    We named our son Yorick after this character and Brian and Pia were so excited, they sent us baby gifts, it was so cute. He just started kindergarten this year. I hope so much that this is going to finally come to fruition. I think Garret Hedlund would make an awesome Yorick Brown.

  • http://twitter.com/JLeeMilliren J.Lee Milliren

    I dont know……I dont really want a TV series or a movie or anything based off this series. I just love this series too much to see it any other kind of media.

  • http://twitter.com/SamSamanthor Sam Christopher

    I just don’t see how they could do this movie-length. I’ll continue using my penny-in-a-fountain wishes for a tv show. Because that would be awesome.

  • Anonymous

    Am I the only one who misread it as GAY: THE LAST MAN? Now that I am properly informed, this sounds promising and I will stay tuned.

  • http://www.facebook.com/j.norelius Jenny Norelius

    I think it’d be brilliant as a movie. Since it’s one of the best comics out there.
    I read at some point that if they were to make a movie it would only feature the first 13 issues (or the first one would anyway). But you can never put much stock in such rumors.
    Getting the whole comic in one single movie would mean cutting out alot of what made the movie great.

  • http://www.facebook.com/Totz.the.Plaid Zach Totz

    I hope not! I don’t get why people want to see video games or comic series like this turned into movies… they’ll just end up cutting the plot to hell AT BEST and disappointing the fans! 11 trades into MAYBE three movies? Wouldn’t work. I’ll stick with the brilliantly crafted original, thank you.

  • http://www.facebook.com/Totz.the.Plaid Zach Totz

    Comics like “Batman” or “X-Men” or even “Hellboy” are easier to work into movies because they’re open-ended. Turning something that’s just one big story into a movie requires condensing the fuck out of it and usually ruining it in one way or another.

  • Anonymous

    dear new line,

    agent 355 = gina torres

    pleaseandthankyou,

    patientetherizd

  • http://revolvingdoorcommune.wordpress.com Teresa Jusino

    “New Line is thinking a bit bigger”

    TV IS bigger these days. :) Movie stars are doing television in droves, because that’s where the action is! Save the occasional super-blockbuster, movies are actually pretty crappy these days, and I worry that something like Y, which doesn’t have the same mainstream pull as a superhero movie or a YA novel, will get lost in the shuffle. While I’m happy to see any adaptation of this story (yay female roles!), I would prefer a TV show. Warner Bros. owns New Line, right? Can’t they just…snag it and make it a show instead? :)

  • Anonymous

    Unless he dies horribly in the beginning. That I can handle.

  • http://twitter.com/TalesofthePack Allison Moon

    I’m just hoping they’ll hold off until I’m a famous enough screenwriter for them to bring on board. So far, so good.

  • Sierra Moore

    Just keep Michael Cera out of it and everything will be okay.

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