The acclaimed comic series Y: The Last Man will be staying just that: a comic. New Line Cinema optioned rights for a film close to a decade ago, but after sitting around for so long, they recently reverted back to the series' creators - and there's no sign right now that they'll be going anywhere else. New Line had been attempting to get a film going as recently as last year, even bringing on commercial director Dan Trachtenberg to see it through, but Trachtenberg revealed (via Twitter) that the film is indeed done for. Published by DCs Vertigo imprint, this ten-part dystopian science fiction series began back in 2002 when writer Brian K Vaughan and comparative newcomer artist Pia Guerra released the first volume of their Eisner-award winning story. The premise of the piece is that every animal on the planet containing a male chromosome (human or otherwise, including sperms, embryos and fertilized eggs) was simultaneously killed by a plague on July 17, 2002. That is, everyone except escape artist Yorick and his pet monkey Ampersand. At one point Shia LaBeouf was the frontrunner to play the film's protagonist, though LaBeouf's public response tended to vary from outright denial to vague indifference.
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