After sitting six years on the film’s rights for Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra’s Y: The Last Man, New Line Cinema is finally moving forward with their live action adaptation of the Vertigo comic book by attaching a new director to the film. Y: The Last Man is the story of an amateur escape artist named Yorik Brown who becomes the last man on Earth after a mysterious plague simultaneously wipes out every being with a Y chromosome. The movie was originally going to be directed by Daniel John Caruso. However, Caruso left the project when New Line Cinema turned down two potential scripts (one written by Vaughan himself) and couldn’t commit to a trilogy to accurately portray the series. The dystopian science fiction film is now set to be directed by Dan Trachtenberg, a commercial director who gained fame with his video game fan film, Portal: No Escape, which has ranked in over 11 million views on Youtube. Below is Trachtenberg’s short film based on the Portal games.
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Trachtenberg is also set to direct the science fiction action heist film, Crime of the Century, for Universal Pictures.
Y: The Last Man comic book began in September 2002 and concluded in March 2008. Vertigo has released various trade paperbacks and deluxe book editions that collects all 60 issues of the series.
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