SCOOP: More producers making THE LAST MAN

By: Patrick Sauriol
Date: Monday, June 23, 2003
Source: Anonymous

Following up on our exclusive report that New Line Cinema is developing a movie based on the Vertigo/DC Comics comic book Y: THE LAST MAN, a source relays to us the latest developments on this project.

According to our inside source, New Line Cinema executive Cale Boyter will definitely serve as one of Y's producers, with fellow New Line exec Richard Brenner and president of production Toby Emmerich possibly also receiving a producer's credit. Boyter, Brenner and Emmerich would join previously announced producers David Goyer, J.C. Spink and Chris Bender on the project, unless one of the aforementioned trio have exited the nascent film.

Our source also tells us that the search for a screenwriter to adapt the comic is fully underway. So far no leading candidates have emerged.

Y: THE LAST MAN has just published its twelfth issue. The series postulates the aftermath of a mysterious global disaster that kills every male mammal, sperm and zygote but leaves one man and his pet monkey alive. As the lone survivor searches for his missing fiancee, powerful and dangerous factions pursue Yorick Brown each with their own agenda for acquiring or killing the last man on Earth. The series was created by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra.


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