Y: The Last Man Film Is Dead Once More

Another day in Hollywood, and another dream squashed. For those who were excited to see the story of Y: The Last Man come to big screens everywhere comes the news that the film is, once again, dead.

The comic series created by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra was first published in 2002 and tells the story of a plague that suddenly kills every living mammal that has a Y chromosome, except for young Yorick Brown and his Capuchin monkey Ampersand. The series produced 60 issues, with the last one published in March of 2008.

The movie has been struggling to get made since 2007 when Disturbia’s writer, Carl Ellsworth, and director D.J. Caruso were attached. The film ran into problems right away when distributor New Line Cinema had trouble moving forward on the project. Then Caruso explained that the material was proving too much for one film. “I don’t want to say we decided to go the trilogy way, but we decided to take a certain chunk of the first, like, 14 issues, and make that the first movie. So we kind of gave it a different arc. Where this series ends, hopefully, would be, like, the third movie.” New Line felt differently, and wasn’t sure about making three films. Caruso then left the project, and it remained dormant until 2012 when Warehouse 13 and Jericho writers Matthew Federman and Stephen Scaia were hired to take on the adaptation. By the summer of 2013, director Dan Trachtenberg was attached and producer Dan Goyer was excited about the film, saying, “We’ve got a script that’s as close as it’s ever been.” He said production could begin in 2014.

Which brings us to the end of September when Trachtenberg announced on his Twitter that the film is no more.

The rights have been retracted to Vaughan, and for now, once again, the film is nothing more than a dream.

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