New Line Pulls Y: The Last Man Movie Out Of Development Hell; Hires New Writers

Last week, we gave your our ideal casting for the movie. Now, it looks like the movie adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra’s  Y: The Last M isn’t as dead as everyone thought. The Hollywood Reporter just announced that New Line Cinema has hired the duo of Matthew Federman and Stephen Scaia  to write an adaptation of the acclaimed Vertigo comic book series. Both Federman and Scaia were writer/producers on genre shows like Human Target, Warehouse 13 and Jericho. New Line has been trying to get this made for awhile now; Director DJ Caruso was attached a few years back, with Shia LaBeouf  attached to star, but nothing ever came of it. Also attached at one point was The Incredible Hulk and Clash of the Titans director Louis Letterier, but that went nowhere twice as fast as Caruso’s take.

As described in the original article, Y: The Last Man centers on Yorick, an “escape artist who is the last survivor of a mysterious plague that has killed every male mammal in the world. With his pet monkey, he sets out to find what might have wiped out the world’s male chromosomes.”  The series of graphic novels are widely considered some of the best of the past decade, but are also very dense and hard to condense into a two hour narrative, or even a trilogy. Anyone else think this is better suited to be adapted Walking Dead style, on cable television? Just throwing it out there