It’s been a while since we’ve heard anything about a possible film adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan’s “Y: The Last Man.” First news of the film adaptation broke back in 2008 when director D.J. Caruso spoke of casting Shia LaBeouf as the story’s protagonist, Yorrick Brown. But with a script written by Vaughan himself, pre-production for Caruso become rather slow and Shia LaBeouf’s involvement with the film became an on-again, off-again uncertainty.
Recently, MTV News caught up with D.J. Caruso on the set of his upcoming film and got a small update on the status of “Y: The Last Man.”
“It’s still in active development at New Line. I’m still kind of loosely attached. We’ve taken about four cracks at the screenplay. It’s been a really tough one, only because there’s so much that you cover and trying to narrow it down is a problem.”
He went on to point out that differing beliefs on the breakdown of the story had a lot to do with the film’s stalled status. Caruso’s vision of the film(s) is that of a three-part saga. However, this has clashed with the studio’s solo film plans.
Caruso states,
“My problem that I have with New Line is, they’re good people, but I felt you had to make this film as a trilogy,” he said. “I felt that you really had to deal with books one through four on their own. And I think there was a different philosophy there. They really wanted to cover a lot more ground in one film, which I didn’t think would make for a great movie. I thought you’d be cramming too much into one movie. So that’s where we left off,” continued Caruso. “Maybe when I get back from shooting ‘I Am Number Four’ we’ll try to get back into it. I really do love that project, so I hope we can make something work out. That’s been the problem. I think we’ve all felt the same frustration about it.”
For those unfamiliar with the series, “Y: The Last Man” follows the adventures of magician Yorrick Brown who is the last human male on Earth after something kills every organism with a Y chromosome, expect for Yorrick and his pet monkey, Ampersand.
I hope that the film can get back into development soon and get made (hopefully into Caruso’s planned trilogy). ”Y: The Last Man” is a great comic series and would make for an amazing film series as well.
