Will Forte is The Last Man on Earth

[Sawyer]

http://www.deadline.com/2014/02/will-forte-comedy-last-man-on-earth-fox-series/

Fox Orders Will Forte Comedy ‘Last Man On Earth’ To Series For Midseason 2015
By NELLIE ANDREEVA

Fox has ordered to series the single-camera comedy Last Man On Earth, which is created by and will star Will Forte. Forte and The Lego Movie duo of Phil Lord & Chris Miller are executive producing with Seth Cohen, and Lord and Miller will direct the pilot episode. The project is part of Fox chairman Kevin Reilly’s plan to bypass pilot season, go straight to series and cast projects outside of the traditional January-April pilot cycle. Last Man On Earth will be produced off-cycle, filming in the summer for a 2014-2015 midseason bow. Fox originally bought the project in October in a bidding war with a pilot production commitment. At the time, Forte was not attached to star, only to write and executive produce. However, the lead was intended for him, and he now has an acting deal in place. Three months before the upfronts, Fox already has three comedy series ordered for next season, Last Man On Earth, Mulaney and Weird Loners, and two dramas, Hieroglyph and Backstrom, along with several other pilots that are on series track.

Written by Forte and produced by 20th TV and studio-based Lord Miller, Last Man On Earth centers a stranger (Forte) who becomes the last human on Earth. It marks a return to writing for Forte, who started off as a writer on the Late Show, 3rd Rock From The Sun and That ’70s Show before hitting it big on Saturday Night Live, where he was a cast member for a decade. He just worked with Miller and Lord voicing Abraham Lincoln in box office hit Lego Movie, and also voiced a character on the pair’s 2002 animated series Clone High. Forte, repped by UTA and Mosaic, is nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for his role in Nebraska and will next be seen in Life Of Crime and Squirrel To The Nuts.

Official Trailer
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Trailer was good, but I have to wonder how much mileage you can get out of a concept like this. I mean, he can't really be the last man on Earth, can he?

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Well I'd expect something this absurd and dark to come from Adult Swim or FX so congrats to Fox for breaking from the norm.

My favorite part of the trailer was hording the porn mags. I've been waiting for The Walking Dead to cover that for the last four seasons.

 

[Donut]

I'll check this out

 

[KevanG]

I think last MAN on earth would be more of an interesting premise.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

I think last MAN on earth would be more of an interesting premise.

Especially if the last man on Earth couldn't get laid under normal circumstances.

Would the women treat him as a sex god or throw him in a zoo exhibit.

 

[Pink Ranger]

Especially if the last man on Earth couldn't get laid under normal circumstances.

Would the women treat him as a sex god or throw him in a zoo exhibit.

Knowing Will Forte, if the show ever adopted that premise, he still wouldn't get laid and women would treat him with some kind of casual ambivalence.

 

[Sawyer]

http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/11/22/w...impsons-bringing-the-last-man-on-earth-to-tv/

The premiere date was just announced for your next project, Last Man on Earth. There isn’t that much information out there about it. I think everyone is wondering: Are you the last man on Earth, or the last person? Also, what is the greater story you want to tell with the show?
WF: I am the last man on Earth. I’m not going to say much more than that. It’s been really fun and exciting because it’s such a weird concept and Fox has really embraced it, giving us their full support. Trying to figure out how to tell a story with one person has been an incredible challenge, but also a really exciting challenge. Figuring out how to do it all has been really, really fun. We’re really proud of what has come out of it so far.

Watching the trailer, the show reminded me of Nebraska in that both have a sense of isolation.
WF: There’s an interesting connection. Nebraska was a mixture of comedy and drama so that was exciting. Before Nebraska, I was pretty used to doing stuff that was over the top, absurdist comedy. Our attempt here is to kind of toe that line, having some real moments and treating this just like a person would. Obviously it’s a comedy, but there are moments where there’s a very real feeling of isolation and loneliness that you would feel if you were the last person on earth. I never really made that connection before, but I’m sure having that experience of getting to be in Nebraska and do that type of role is really, really is something that affected the show.

That said, at its core, the show is a comedy. How do you create humor when you’re acting by yourself?
WF: That was the trick, trying to figure out all that stuff. I think Fox was kind of nervous because a great deal of this first episode especially is just visual stuff. Once we actually filmed it they were much more comfortable. It’s a lot of wish fulfillment, which is really fun to watch. It’s all just kind of stupid stuff that I go around and do. That’s been one of the most fun parts of the job. About once a week I get to do something that seems like it’d be amazingly fun to do: shoot a flame thrower at a bunch of wigs, have a steamroller steamroll over a case of beer. Just dumb stuff like that, which pretty much is all it takes to make me happy. I’m a very simple person. Just give me a steamroller or flamethrower and I’m good.

 

[Sawyer]

http://deadline.com/2014/12/january...-last-man-on-earth-will-forte-fox-1201304457/

Kristen Schaal.

 

[runawayboulder]

So there's another guy in the cast in a show about the last man on Earth...?

 

[Donut]

Flashbacks probably. Or the last guy imagines things a lot maybe ?

 

[Sawyer]

http://insidetv.ew.com/2015/01/17/l.../?hootPostID=c1d075be47f24c1cb577eb6dac242eb4

Mary Steenburgen joins Will Forte's 'Last Man on Earth'
By Natalie Abrams

Mary Steenburgen has joined the cast of Fox’s new comedy The Last Man on Earth, Will Forte and executive producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller announced at TCA’s winter press tour.

The series stars Forte as Phil Miller, an average guy who apparently becomes the last man on earth after a virus destroys all of humanity. Of course, since this is a comedy, Phil will discover what life is like when no one tells you what to do—i.e. he’ll smash a lot of stuff and line his home with famous paintings and artifacts he’s pilfered from around the country.

“It has been a fun show to shoot because I get to do a lot of wish fulfillment,” Forte said. “I would just go around and break stuff. It’s been really fun to break a lot of stuff.”

While details on Steenburgen’s role are being kept under wraps, it was revealed that Phil may not be the only human left on earth as the previously cast Kristen Schaal joined the crew on stage, suggesting that she’s the last woman on earth.

Though that secret is now out of the bag, Forte said there are other logistical challenges with keeping this show authentic. “Avoiding noise is incredibly hard,” he said of filming. “Obviously anytime you’re shooting anything, the sound of an airplane, the sound of a train is really hard.” But Miller interjected with a positive note: “All the money we’re saving on all those extras is really helping us.”

However, there will be other actors besides Forte, Schaal and Steenburgen on the series. As previously announced, Mad Men’s January Jones, Getting On’s Mel Rodriguez and Cleopatra Coleman (Neighbours) are also among the cast, with their storylines seemingly being told through flashbacks prior to the destruction of mankind.

“We don’t spend that much time talking about it,” Forte said of what caused the apocalypse. “There has been a virus. We never even talk about what the virus is. We don’t go too far into it. We’re just shooting our 10th episode and I don’t know that we ever do more than just casually mention it in conversation. We don’t really ever see dead bodies. We kind of avoid that subject.”

The Last Man on Earth will debut with a one-hour premiere on Sunday, March 1 at 9 p.m. ET on Fox.

 

[Sawyer]

Premieres this Sunday. I've seen so many good reviews, I hope that translates into ratings.

 

[Sawyer]

Tonight, y'all.

 

[addison81]

First 2 episodes were great. Hilarious and original. Looking forward to seeing where it goes.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

I thought it was pretty damn good. I'll be tuning in to see where this goes. Will and Kristen make a good combo

 

[Dr. Evil]

If this is meant to replace Mulaney then I approve.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

I loved the shooting-every-window-in-the-way bit.

 

[MadVillainy]

It was pretty cool. I'll keep watching.
Hope it lasts.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

The beard on Forte cracked me up. Looked pretty damn good for what I assume was a fake

 

[Dave McFly]

Nice Alexandra Daddario cameo as the hallucination of the last woman on earth before it is really Wendy Schaal.

 

[Brother Jack]

The beard on Forte cracked me up. Looked pretty damn good for what I assume was a fake

It's real.

 

[Dave McFly]

yeah it is he was wearing it at the SNL 40 thing.

 

[addison81]

Wonder what will happen with her injured foot?Feel like that wasnt just a throw away thing. Really hope this doesnt get cancelled.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

I think the humor and concept is too challenging for the mainstream audience.

The ratings for the next few episodes will be interesting.

 

[Sawyer]

http://tvline.com/2015/03/02/once-upon-a-time-season-4-spring-ratings/

The Last Man on Earth was not entirely alone after all.

Fox’s freshman drama averaged 5.7 million total viewers and a 2.3 rating across its double-episode debut, topping the night in the demo and standing as the No. 1 comedy launch of the TV season with Men 18-49.

Not bad. It all depends on how much of that it can hold on to in week 2.

Anyway, liked it a lot. Not quite love yet, but I had fun. Though, if I were Forte, Schall's character would've been dead to me the second she chastised me for not stopping at the stop sign.