An adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan’s comic book series, Y: The Last Man, has been in the works for years, but hit various roadbloacks such as directors like D.J. Caruso and Louis Leterrier coming and going from the movie, as well as issues with the script. However last autumn New Line Cinema made the project a priority after receiving a screenplay they liked from Matthew Federman and Stephen Scaia.
Now Variety reports has brought on Dan Trachtenberg to direct the Y: The Last Man adaptation. Trachtenberg is best known for directing the short Portal: No Escape, based on the popular Portal video game, and since that short ignited Hollywood interest, he’s been flirting with various projects.
Y: The Last Man follows Yorick Brown, a young man who, along with his pet monkey, become the only two male mammals on Earth, after a bizarre, cataclysmic event wipes out every other male on the planet, both human and animal. Yorick teams with a government operative known only as 355, to try and get to the bottom of this world-changing event.
It isn’t known when the movie might shoot.