Any new "Y: The Last Man" news?

[Silvermoth]

Yorick Brown is not a teenager. He's in his early-mid 20's. He's a college graduate. He's an underachiever and somewhat a slacker.

Huntington is 26. He can easily play an underachiever/college graduate/slacker/magician/comedian.

 

[TheVileOne]

Nothing to do with Huntington, but earlier someone referred to Yorick as a teenager.

 

[Silvermoth]

oh, terribly sorry.

 

[Project862006]

i been reading the comic and i think Diane Lane is perfect for Yorrick's Mom :

 

[Mister Sinister]

DJ Caruso Interview

 

[OwlBoy]

If its Shia then it becomes a PG-13 movie. That simple.

Prove this

 

[DarkSovereignty]

If its Shia then it becomes a PG-13 movie. That simple.

shia lebouf has done rated r films before...just fyi, like "Constantine", "A guide to recognizing your saints" and "Bobby".

 

[Project862006]

i like shia and all but after recently watch into the wild emile hirsch would be great for yorrick

also they should have Michelle Monaghan for hero brown she is in eagle eye with shia which is directed by Caruso aswell and she looks like her to and she is a great actress

 

[Sugarculted]

I'd be pretty happy if Emile Hirsch was up for the role

 

[OwlBoy]

Sanaa Lathan for 355

 

[Dark Victory]

I'd be pretty happy if Emile Hirsch was up for the role

Same here.

 

[Dark Victory]

DJ Caruso Interview

Glad to hear Brian K. Vaughn helped them out. That means the script is at least decent.

 

[arman200]

i like shia and all but after recently watch into the wild emile hirsch would be great for yorrick

also they should have Michelle Monaghan for hero brown she is in eagle eye with shia which is directed by Caruso aswell and she looks like her to and she is a great actress

I personally think Jeniffer Carpenter would be great for Hero.

 

[Silvermoth]

I'm of the Eliza Dushku for Hero crowd myself. And because I've been choosing alot of unknowns, I'll choose a well known person for Yorick's mother dear.

Glenn Close

 

[Project862006]

i had diane lane in mind for the mother

 

[biolumen]

Caruso was recently interviewed regarding this project.

Caruso Offers New Y Hints
12:00 AM, 15-SEPTEMBER-08

Director D.J. Caruso updated SCI FI Wire on the status of his proposed film adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan's best-selling SF graphic novel Y the Last Man, offering a few hints on how he'll adapt the sprawling plot for the big screen.

The key element will be to increase the urgency of the story, the first of three envisioned movies, by separating Yorick, the last male survivor of a worlwide plague, and his capuchin monkey companion, Ampersand.

"I just think what happens is that if you separate Yorick and Ampersand, then there's the potential that Yorick could get sicker and sicker as time progresses," Caruso said in an interview.

The idea that Ampersand is the key to Yorick's survival is one story element that differentiates the proposed film from the comics, which Vaughan created with Pia Guerra.

Y the Last Man centers on Yorick, a twentysomething slacker and amateur escape artist, who finds himself the last surviving man after a plague kills any creature with a Y chromosome. He and Ampersand embark on a journey to find his fiancee, Beth, in Australia, accompanied by 355, an agent of a secret government agency, and Dr. Mann, a cloning scientist who may hold the key to the plague's cure.

Caruso (Disturbia) spoke as he was promoting his upcoming SF-tinged action thriller Eagle Eye. Below is an edited version of the intervew.

Is Y the Last Man going to be your next film?

Caruso: Yeah. We turned in the script to Warner Brothers last week, and we're trying to strategize and figure out [how to do it]. ... It's kind of new to New Line and Warner Brothers, because they have a new relationship now, and, yeah, we're hoping that's the next movie. And, hopefully, they'll ... give us the go-ahead to start prepping that movie. And I'd love to prep that late in the fall if I can and roll into shooting that ... after the winter.

So Warner's pretty hot on moving forward.

Caruso: I think they are. We had some discussions, and I know that they would really, really like to have the movie in late 2010 if that's possible.

And Shia La Beaouf, who starred in your films Disturbia and Eagle Eye, again, is your first choice to play Yorick?

Caruso: He's my first choice.

And that won't be complicated by either his schedule on Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen or his hand injury from a recent auto accident?

Caruso: No, because Transformers 2, they're more than halfway done now, and he's out there shooting and doing his thing. I think that's why, too, if I have enough time to prep it, he'll have some time off and can come into it fresh.

What do you think Shia would bring to that role?

Caruso: Well, I think Yorick is a fantastic role for Shia. One, because Yorick has great sort of self-deprecating humor. ... One thing Shia really brings to him is that ... realistic acting style and being put in some crazy, ... super-realistic situations. Shia always keeps them real and keeps it grounded. He's endearing. I'm hoping that the 355 relationship, ... I always thought it would be really cool to have that be sort of a [Robert] De Niro-[Charles] Grodin ... banter type relationship, like they had in Midnight Run. I think that Shia would be a great sort of receiver and giver on both sides of that. I think he'd really bring a lot to it.

Have you given thought to casting of other characters?

Caruso: I haven't given deep thought, because we just [finished the script]. I mean, it was so cool we finally plotted out and licked the first screenplay. I think it's one of three if, God willing, the things are successful. And so I haven't really given it much thought. But, ... it's [going to have 355]. We've got 711. We've got Dr. Mann. We've got Hero. ... We've got a lot of interesting casting choices. You know, as Shia said, this would be a really fun movie to be a guy in [laughs].

Alicia Keys is a name that comes up for 355.

Caruso: Yeah, you know, that ... came up a lot in the last couple of weeks, and it's very interesting. I mean, I have not met her, but I mean she might be an interesting 355. I thought she did a cool job in the Joe Carnahan movie [Smokin' Aces].

The graphic novel is a sprawling story, and obviously you'd have to pare it down for the first film of three. Do you have an endpoint and how you would streamline that story?

Caruso: I don't want to give away too much of the end, but I think basically you know, Yorick and 355 will basically walk away and go off into the sunset, knowing that they're going to have to keep going on the run, and you might sort of look up in the sky and realize that maybe Yorick is at that point, and he might not be the last man or he might be the last man, and that ... the journey and the continuing on the run is going to have to go from there. ...

Primarily in the first movie, I mean, it's really important to stay focused on Yorick. And we do deal with Alter, ... the Israeli army and then the Chinese faction that's coming in as well. But, you know, to get us going, to get us grounded, it's really about Yorick. You know, the anchor of this particular film would be the Yorick-355 relationship.

Have you given thoughts for the second and third films?

Caruso: If we get through this first one and then start thinking about the second, I haven't given it much thought. It's just been actually very difficult to get the first one into a screenplay, because there's so much great stuff to choose from.

Talk about Brian K. Vaughan's involvement.

Caruso: He's been great. He's been reading all the drafts and sort of going with us. And the one thing which Brian did, which was really great, was to say, "Look, guys, feel free to change this or to do that. Don't be so locked in by everything I did, because I understand that the movie is different than what we have, and ... don't let the fanboys dictate what you do if you change something." And so we've been very good, but we've actually been very close and very respectful and actually just ramped up something a little bit different, which Brian thought was actually a great tweak. And so he's been involved and been very, very helpful.

--Patrick Lee, News Editor

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=59971

 

[Sugarculted]

Haha, noooo. Please let us dictate what happens, Caruso and Vaughan

 

[Project862006]

http://www.firstshowing.net/2008/09/22/exclusive-dj-caruso-reveals-y-the-last-man-story-details/


Over the weekend I had the chance to catch up with director D.J. Caruso in order to chat about his upcoming film Eagle Eye (that full interview will be up in the next few days). I wanted to make sure to get an update from him on Y: The Last Man, his passion project comic book film about a boy named Yorick who suddenly becomes the only male left alive on Earth. He's mentioned before that Warner Brothers wants to turn this into one of their big 2010 movies, since they're in need of some, but we've been waiting to hear more details, including what they might change in order to turn the comic book series into one (for now) all-encompassing movie. Caruso exclusively revealed to us what his "big change" in the plot will be.
Caruso said that he turned in the script to New Line last week and is working on tweaking it over the next month. "It's my job to get the script right first, and once we get the script right, which we're getting close, it could potentially be the next movie," he explained. The comic series, which began in 2002 and just wrapped up with its final issue this January, spans a total of 60 issues. A story that vast obviously won't fit into one movie. "If you know the series at all, it's a lot to choose from… You want to make a movie that stands alone, but I keep telling them I can't fit it all into one movie. God willing if it's successful enough, there has to be another movie." Caruso briefly explains how the story in the first film plays out.

"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 and further."
​

It sounds like at one point Caruso really wanted to talk more about what happens in it, but has to stop himself. However, when we started talking more about the comic and fans, he mentioned one of the big changes that they've made. "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's not with him. I felt like we needed some kind of ticking clock so it wasn't just a boy and his monkey." Sound a bit like Spielberg's E.T.? Caruso added that Brian K. Vaughan, the author of the comic, has been helping out a lot. And as for the aforementioned big change — "Brian loved that. So it's good to hear that the creator loved that."
Caruso's Eagle Eye debuts this weekend and once things start to settle down, he'll be working on Y: The Last Man again. "In another month or so it should be ready." It's one of the projects that I've been anxious to see come together. I just hope Warner Brothers understands this adaptation's potential and doesn't let it slip by as a small project. That's why I asked Caruso about how global it would be - to get a feeling for whether WB wanted to give this the budget that it really needs. The first draft of the screenplay was submitted and he's already got notes and is tweaking it, let's just hope he can polish it quickly enough.

 

[TheComicbookKid]

That's a cool plot twist as long as it doesn't kill him not to have Ampersand.

 

[cerealkiller182]

That was in the comic book wasnt it. Ampersand ends up with the theater group and Yorick starts getting sick

Spoiler

even though it was only food posioning not the mankiller virus

does he mean they are just going to get rid of the anticlimatic twist

 

[Mister Sinister]

Shia LaBeouf is out

 

[Webhead2006]

oh well that is sad for shia fans, though i bet folks will be happy with him off.

 

[Kane52630]

Topher Grace as Yorick!

 

[cerealkiller182]

They are better off. I think Shia would have been great but so many people had called the project dead in the water just because of Shia.

Jamie Bell please

 

[Project862006]

people yorrick at the most imo is 23 i would still go with Emile Hirsch