Earlier this year, it looked as if FX’s plans for a Y: The Last Man series had been completely dropped.
If you remember, a full cast was assembled for a pilot for Y but problems hit the project when showrunners Aida Mashaki Croal and Michael Green departed the project. After that news, FX did bring in Extant’s Eliza Clark as a new showrunner, although there were still rumblings that the show had been axed before it ever really got going.
Now, Y: The Last Man writer Brian K. Vaughan has taken to social media to confirm that Y is still happening – and that it will be hitting FX at some point next year.
The last we’d heard the current plan is to move forward with the same cast that have already shot a pilot episode for Y. On board for that pilot were Barry Keoghan, Diane Lane, Amber Tamblyn, Imogen Poots, Juliana Canfield, Lashana Lynch and Marin Ireland.
The early blurb on the show reads:
All of the men are dead. But one. Based on the DC comic book series by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra, Y traverses a world of women – exploring gender, race, class and survival.
For those not familiar with Y: The Last Man, the 60-issue comic book series ran from 2002 to 2008 and focussed on Yorick Brown, the titular “last man”. When the world suffers a tragic event that kills off every creature with a Y chromosome, Yorick only has his monkey, Ampersand, for company until he finds himself teaming up with a government operative to make sense of what’s happened and why he’s somehow managed to stay alive.
Previously, several attempts have been made to get an adaptation of the property off the ground, most notably with ultimately-doomed live-action movies in 2007 and 2013.
As ever, expect more on the future of Y as we get it.
