Let’s talk Y: The Last Man, one of the greatest comic books ever, and Brian K. Vaughn’s best work hands down. In it, a aspiring magician named Yorick Brown and his pet monkey Ampersand suddenly become the last males on earth. Everything with a Y: Chromosome dies. Animals, sperm, if its Y, it’s gone.
Yorick starts a journey to find his girlfriend Beth who was in Australia when the mass-man-ocide goes down. Turns out Yorick is more important to the rest of the world than his initial quest. Most everyone wants a piece of him. A roving group of women called The Amazon wants to kill him, a secret society called the Culper Ring wants to protect him, and an Asian doctor, unironically called Dr. Mann wants to examine him and find out what made him immune to the mystery disease.
The property was in development over at New Line with D,J, Caruso, who’s next flick, Eagle Eye, sees Shia LaBeouf manipulated by a mysterious voice on the phone.
/Film scored big with the Y: The Last Man scoop, getting Caruso to spill some beans. Cool beans…
From /Film:
“What happened is New Line is now part of Warner Bros, and Warner Bros is now really high on the project. And Carl Ellsworth will probably be handing in a script to Warner Bros/New Line [real soon].”
“I was talking to Shia [LaBeouf] about this yesterday when we were looping him, because he really wants to do it as well, I would like to prep this movie in October, and start shooting it by January. Warner Bros keeps saying ‘We need movies for 2010′ I’m like ‘We’re the movie!’” said Caruso.
“[Shia] wants to do it, I want to do it. I think we just need to worry about him being exhausted, so I told him, if I prep it in the fall and we start in January, that’s a nice big break.”
“I definitely see it as a trilogy. I see the first movie ending basically where you pick up six weeks after the incident then progressing down only a five or six week journey from that point on until the end of the first movie,” revealed Caruso. “It’s been hard in a good way just because there is so much good stuff to choose from. And every-time you start throwing certain scenes in the screenplay, you’ll see that it sort of dislodges and starts to head a different way.”
“We did something earlier where we sort of separated Yorick from Ampersand for a brief moment of time when Yorrick gets very sick. Also, the 355/Yorrick relationship, we’ve been working on that and not getting that right. Yorrick to me is so solid. It’s really like 355 and her joining with Yorrick that has been… and act three and where do you end the first movie, and where do you go from there. ”
Caruso claims that co-creator Brian K Vaughn is apparently “really happy” with the direction they have taken.
