For years, Hollywood has struggled to bring Brian K Vaughan’s beloved dystopian sci-fi comic book series Y: The Last Man to the big screen. A new report suggests the anticipated adaptation will probably surface on television.
FX, home to American Horror Story and The Americans, has teamed with Vaughan to develop the property into an ongoing series, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
A writer and director for the potential series have yet to sign on. Should the series go into production, it will be produced by FX and FX Productions.
The comic, launched in 2002, centers on escape artist Yorick Brown, the last surviving human with a Y chromosome, and his pet monkey. The series, written and created by Vaughan and artist Pia Guerra, ran for 60 issues between 2002 and 2008.
Y: The Last Man was set to be adapted into a film by New Line. The rights reverted back to Vaughan and Guerra in 2014 after the film was scrapped. The movie, which has been in the works since 2007, would have adapted the first 10 issues of the series.
Director DJ Caruso (Eagle Eye, Disturbia) was at first attached to the project, with his frequent collaborator Shia LeBeouf rumored to be circling the lead role of Brown. Caruso quit after learning New Line wanted to produce a two-hour stand-alone feature, and not extend the property into a trilogy. Don Trachtenberg, known for generating his own trailer for a faux movie based on the video game Portal, signed on in 2013, but his version never got off the ground.
Should the show make it to production, it would mark Vaughan’s return to television after creating Under the Dome, and writing and producing on Lost.
