Till date DC and Marvel Comic characters have been ruling the superhero genre in the TV sector but now in the bid to set themselves apart and explore the comic area, broadcasters are roping in other comic publishers to expand their superhero franchise. This time FX is teaming up with Vertigo comics which is a subsidiary of DC Comics to produce the Eisner Awards winner, Y: The Last Man series.
Y: The Last Man is a dystopian science fiction comic book series by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra which was published back in 2002. The series revolves around Yorick Brown, the seemingly only man who survives the apparent simultaneous death of all other Y chromosome species on Earth except his capuchin monkey, Ampersand who’s also a male. The series was published in sixty issues by Vertigo and has been collected in multiple graphic novels.
The TV series might have been produced long time back if it wasn’t for New Line as they had originally acquired rights for a film adaptation in 2007 with David Goyer, Carl Ellsworth and director D.J. Caruso attached. New Line wanted to make it a two-hour stand alone feature film whereas Caruso had other plans as he wanted to make it a trilogy franchise. In 2012 Matthew Federman, Stephen Scaia, J.C. Spink, Chris Bender, Mason Novick and Jake Weiner were also in talks to take on the property but the project similarly fell through. The plans were eventually scrapped, and the rights for the property have since reverted back to Vaughan.
“We wanted to tell a complete story … but not the whole story,” Vaughan said in September 2014 when the rights to the franchise reverted back to him, noting that he had hoped that “in success, we could get tell the rest of our serialized adventure.”
Y: The Last Man will now be produced by FX and FX Productions and the writer and the director for the series are yet to be confirmed.