Y: The Last Man Update From D.J. Caruso

This from FirstShowing.net...

How far into Y: The Last Man are you? Are they looking to get it made?

Caruso: I turned in the script last week, about five days ago. I actually have the notes. It got turned into New Line. Things have changed. I don't know if you know, but New Line barely exists anymore. So now, New Line is going to work on it and Warner Brothers wants to make the movie. They obviously are excited that Shia is interested in making the movie, being Yorick Brown and all that stuff. But, it's my job to get the script right first. Then once we get the script right, which we're getting close, then it could potentially be the next movie. Warner Brothers is light on movies for 2010. They're pushing hard to get it going, but we gotta get the script right and we're getting close. If you know the series at all, there's a lot to choose from, but it's also — you want to make a movie that stands alone. But I keep telling them I can't fit it all into one movie. God wiling, if it's successful enough, there has to be another movie, but we're working really hard and I would like to get that movie going.

I'm curious how big of a scale it will have, because this is obviously a worldwide occurrence in the comic...

Caruso: It is a worldwide occurrence. Since you're familiar, I think what will happen is, initially it'll open very similar to what you know in the opening book basically, with Yorick and Beth. And ultimately when it all goes down, we jump to 6 or 8 weeks later, and sort of take that world there. In the montage of when it's all happening, we do see what happens in China, we do have little vignettes of things that are happening all over the world. And then from that point on, in the first movie, it then stays in Yorick's journey to get to — with 355 as they try get across — and find the doctor and losing Ampersand… It's global in that you see what happens, but it doesn't go out further like some of the other stories.

I'm really looking forward to it.

Caruso: It's the first time I've ever had a lot of fanboys send me opinions and all that stuff, which is really cool because I appreciate the passion, but it's been tough. The good thing is Brian's been around, Brian K. Vaughan. He basically was saying– because one big change is that we put in a ticking clock with Yorick and Ampersand and I separated them. And Yorick starts to get a little sick when Ampersand is not with him. Do you know what I'm saying? I felt like we needed some kind of ticking clock so that it wasn't just the boy and his monkey. And so, that actually was really cool. Brian loved that. It's good to hear that the creator loved that. So, we have that kind of going. We're really close. I feel like in another like month or so the draft will be– Now that I have full focus, I can work with the writer and get it good.