Warner Bros. and New Line are scrapping the planned adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan’s comic book ‘Y: The Last Man,’ at least for the time being. Louis Leterrier, who directed such movies as ‘The Incredible Hulk’ and ‘Clash of the Titans,’ was at one time attached to bring the comic to the big screen. However, he said “I’d love to do it, but I need people to finance it, and the people financing it don’t know if it’s a TV show, a movie, or what it should be.”
Director DJ Caruso was also interested in reuniting with with his ‘Eagle Eye’ and ‘Disturbia’ Shia LaBeouf star to bring ‘Y: The Last Man’ to the big screen, based on scripts written by Vaughn, Carl Ellssworth and Jeff Wintar. But Caruso told MovieWeb he thinks the problem he had was that he envisioned the adaptation as a film trilogy.
“I didn’t think that you could take Yorick’s story and put it in to a two-hour movie and do it justice,” Caruso said. He added that Warner Bros. and New Line probably didn’t want to leave the story open, as he described the comic book as “mind-boggling.” He also said that television may not be the best option for the comic book, so “if someone came back to me and said, okay we believe in your vision of the movie, then I would definitely jump back in but I don’t anticipate that happening.”
Written by: Karen Benardello
