The team behind the thriller Disturbia will tackle the adaptation of DC/Vertigo’s Y: The Last Man for New Line Cinema.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, DJ Caruso will develop and direct, while Carl Ellsworth will write the film, based on the comic-book series by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra.
The series, which began in 2002, centers on Yorick Brown, the sole surviving man of a mysterious, spontaneous plague that wiped out every other male mammal on Earth (except for Ampersand, Yorick’s Capuchin monkey). Yorick sets out to discover what caused the catastrophe.
J.C. Spink, Chris Bender and David Goyer will produce the film.
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July 24th, 2007 at 10:09 am
what i wanna know that’s no where in any of these variety/thr articles is what happened to the bkv treatment?
bkv said he had 2 endings. one was going to be used for the book, the other for the movie. was this scrapped? are they now trying to make this a franchise with the ending to happen down the road in a sequel or two? i need answers.
and the guys from crank? great. what is this a marvel property? i thought dc/wb was at least trying to make quality movies with their properties. what, was the director of transporter busy? oh yeah, he’s busy with hulk 2.
July 24th, 2007 at 11:14 am
Wasn’t David Goyer once attached to this, as both screenwriter and producer?
July 24th, 2007 at 11:41 am
Re: #2
goyer was always attached as a producer only with bkv writing and someone else directing. goyer’s been too busy with batman stuff and pre-production work on flash and supermax to direct.
July 24th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
Hopefully they will be very faithful to the source material. There is just so much in this series, I feel it would make a much better HBO series than a movie!
July 24th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
No BKV-penned script? Bummers.
July 26th, 2007 at 1:47 am
I don’t understand the need to make a movie out of everything. I agree this would make a good TV show if faithful, but not a movie. But, any hope I had in this movie being good is gone now that I know the geniuses behind the taut, intelligent thriller “Disturbia” are writing the screenplay.
July 26th, 2007 at 3:49 pm
I’m glad Goyer isnt on this, he sucks. The last Blade was horrible, direction and writing wise, I can’t believe he wrote the first 2.