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Y: The Last Man Movie Declared 'Dead'

The long-anticipated big screen adaptation of DC Vertigo comic book series ‘Y: The Last Man’ has been declared dead by its director.

The acclaimed comic series from writer Brian K Vaughan and artist Pia Guerra centred on a young man, Yorick Brown, who finds that he and his pet monkey are the only males left alive in the world following a mysterious outbreak.

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A movie adaptation has been in the works for some time at New Line Cinema, but now Dan Trachtenberg - the director most recently attached to the project - confirmed that the rights have now reverted to Vaughan and Guerra.

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Trachtenberg told followers on Twitter that the ‘Y: The Last Man’ film is “Not happening. But it’s in trusted hands (the creators).”

Trachtenberg has subsequently expanded on the matter to Slashfilm, who he tells, “The rights reverted back to Brian quite a few months ago.

"I had such a great time working on that project and am truly sad the things we were cooking up can no longer happen."

Despite his disappointment, Trachtenberg does express doubt that film was ever necessarily the best medium to retell such a lengthy story (the comic ran for 60 issues between 2002 and 2008, subsequently collected in 10 trade paperback collections).

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"Like everyone else who’s a fan of the series I had always wished it either remain in its comic book form. Or, if it must be made, a TV series would be the only thing that would suffice.

"However, the “big screen” and the “small screen” has changed drastically since Y came out and I think so much of the great TV in our current “golden age” has been directly or indirectly inspired by Y the Last Man.

"I started getting excited about bringing to the BIG screen what we’ve been getting in TV so readily now— great characters, RELATIONSHIPS, world building and genre re-combination."

Trachtenberg has subsequently moved on to direct ‘Valencia’ for JJ Abrams’ company Bad Robot.

Prior to Dan Trachtenberg, director DJ Caruso was attached to the film, with Shia LaBeouf having been in line for the lead at one point.

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Picture Credit: DC/Vertigo