Y: THE LAST MAN Will Be Adapted for TV at FX
The Vertigo comic book series Y: The Last Man has been in feature film development for years, but it seems like efforts to get a film off the ground have failed. Brian K. Vaughan's comic will now be adapted as a TV series on FX, which has brought us series such as Justified, Sons of Anarchy, and American Horror Story.
The news comes from THR, who reports that FX has brought Vaughan on board to help develop the series along with Color Force's Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson. They are currently looking for a writer to help develop the series, and there is no director attached yet. While the comic was in film development Dan Trachtenberg, Louis Leterrier, and David Caruso were all attached at various stages.
I honestly think a TV version of the story will work a lot better than a film version. They will be able to tell so much more of the story, which follows a character named Yorick, who becomes the last man on Earth when a plague wipes out all of the males on the planet except him and his pet monkey, Ampersand. He journeys across the world in search of his girlfriend Beth, whom he was proposing to over the phone the plague struck.
FX puts great production value into their series, so I have high hopes that this comic will get the proper adaptation that it deserves. Do you think FX will be a good home for the project?