Another comic is getting a TV adaptation, and this time it doesn't involve a superhero.
A TV show based on the sci-fi comic Y: The Last Man is in development for FX, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Brian K. Vaughan, who wrote and co-created Y: The Last Man, has teamed up with FX and Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson of the production company Color Force to turn the dystopian comic series into an ongoing TV show.
The search is still under way for a writer and director to help develop the potential series. FX and FX Productions will produce the show, according to The Hollywood Reporter, although FX declined to provide a comment to the publication.
Created by writer Vaughan and artist Pia Guerra, Y: The Last Man was published as a series of 60 comics by DC Comics imprint Vertigo throughout the 2000s. The story follows an escape artist by the name of Yorick Brown, who is the last person on Earth with a Y chromosome after a plague wipes out all of the men. He and his Capuchin monkey Ampersand try to navigate a world inhabited entirely by women as they try to figure out what started the disease in the first place.
A movie version of Y: The Last Man had been in development for years, but Dan Trachtenberg, who would have been its director, said the film was no longer happening on Twitter last year, according to /Film. The film rights to the series had originally been in the hands of New Line, which is a corporate sibling of Vertigo, since 2007, but after years of nothing in production, they eventually reverted back to Vaughan.
TV shows with ties to comic books are definitely all the rage these days, from The Walking Dead on AMC to The Flash on The CW to Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. on ABC, so it's no surprise that FX would want to get in the game. There's no other details available about what a TV version of Y: The Last Man will look like, but it should be interesting to follow as it moves through development.
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