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.

The teaser trailer for “The Avengers” that was screened at Comic-Con is now available online for everyone’s viewing pleasure. The brief trailer offers nothing more then a cool voiceover by Samuel L. Jackson (Nick Fury) and the logo for the film, but is still impressive and exciting. Enjoy the embedded trailer after the jump!

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BBC News has learned some of the filming locations for director Joe Johnston’s “Captain America: The First Avenger” coming July 22nd, 2011.

(Caution, spoilers ahead!)

The first “Green Lantern” film doesn’t even come out until next June, but news on on “Green Lantern 2″ is already being released. Earlier this summer, news broke that the screenwriting team for the first “Green Lantern” film had already signed a deal to write treatments for both a “Green Lantern 2″ as well as “The Flash”.

The latest rumor from Collider Magazine seems to confirm that the screenwriting trio have already moved into the early planning stages for “The Flash” movie. When questioned by Collider as to when “The Flash” would be happening, Berlanti replied:

“We’re just getting into the script. We’re just starting the script, so that’s about where we’re at.”

Berlanti also talked about laying the ground work for a possible”Green Lantern” sequel during the scripting of the first movie:

“We actually treated “Green Lantern” a lot like the first year of a series,” related Berlanti. “When we did the first movie, just because we did want to lay stuff out, to deal with the mythology in that way. Writing for series helped us in that, in terms of thinking about stuff as just the beginning, but also part of a chapter, as much as anything else.”

To throw my opinion out there, since Ryan Reynolds is already playing Green Lantern and Deadpool, I’d love to see Neil Patrick Harris take on the role of The Flash. He already voiced the role in “Justice League: The New Frontier” as the Barry Allen version of The Flash, but I think he could take on a live action version of the character as well. What do you think?

Source: MTV.com

Every once in a while, you may come across a panel in your favorite comic that renders you speechless.  And sometimes, you just don’t want to know what comes next.  Nuff Said.