The story of
Y: The Last Man covers the five years immediately following a plague that killed every male creature on Earth (except two). Over the course of their journey, Yorick Brown (an amateur escape artist who happens to be the last man on Earth) and his friends watch society cope and re-stabilize in the absence of men. However, many of the women they encounter have ulterior motives in regard to Yorick and his future.
The Incredible Hulk and
Clash of the Titans director Louis Leterrier has been recently linked to the comic series' silver screen adaptation. When asked where he currently stands in terms of the film with the studio, Leterrier seemed very unsure if
Y: The Last Man will even make it into production,
"I love 'Y,' and I'm talking to the producers and the studio, and Brian Vaughan has been my friend for a very long time. I haven't done a movie like that before, and I know fans are like, "F*ck you Louis Leterrier, you're an action guy." I want to tell them, "No guys, can't you see what I'm trying to do with Hulk, with 'Clash'? I'm trying to tell a story! Please forgive me for 'Transporter 2!'
"I don't know if you can crack in one movie, if you can even crack it in cinematic terms. Maybe it's a TV show. Bit it's such as great story.
"Sometimes I go to the producers of 'Y,' I go see (producer) Michelle Manning about 'The Dirt,' the Motley Crue movie, just to say, "Me, as an audience member, I want to see this movie." It doesn't mean give it to me as a director; it's what can we do to get it to someone amazing and get on screen?
"'Y' I love. The same with 'Avengers.' I love Marvel, I love talking to them about it, but until it's mine, it's not mine. I see people like Francis Lawrence with a gazillion projects (in development). I can't do that. 'Cause when I'm doing a movie, I'm doing that one movie." Information courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter MPP - I'm a big fan of the Y comics, but I've always said that this series deserves a TV series (similar to Fables or The Sandman). There's just too much that will be lost in translation when trying to cram the story into a two hour film.
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