Y: The Last Man

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Laut "Varitey" wird D. J. Caruso ("Disturbia") für New Line Cinema Regie führen bei der Verfilmung der Comic-Serie "Y: The Last Man".

Carl Ellsworth ("Disturbia") wird das Drehbuch schreiben, Chris Bender, JC Spink, Mason Novick und David Goyer sind die Produzenten des Films.
"Y: The Last Man" ist eine seit 2002 beim Label Vertigo erscheinende Comic-Serie, geschaffen von Brian K. Vaughan. Hierzulande erschien sie erst bei Speed, derzeit bei Panini.
Hauptfigur der Serie ist Yorick Brown, der letzten Mann auf dem Planeten Erde, nachdem alle anderen Vertreter seines Geschlechts von einer Seuche getötet wurden.

Quelle: phantastik-news.de

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Klingt fast wie nen Gangbang Streifen ;-)

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Das wird unser Forenfilm

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Die Geschichte des Comics ist ja schön geklaut von Robert Merles Roman "Die geschützten Männer", wie einfallsreich.

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Interview mit Regisseur D.J. Caruso:

The key element will be to increase the urgency of the story, the first of three envisioned movies, by separating Yorick, the last male survivor of a worldwide plague, and his capuchin monkey companion, Ampersand.
"I just think what happens is that if you separate Yorick and Ampersand, then there's the potential that Yorick could get sicker and sicker as time progresses," Caruso said in an interview.
The idea that Ampersand is the key to Yorick's survival is one story element that differentiates the proposed film from the comics, which Vaughan created with Pia Guerra.
Y the Last Man centers on Yorick, a twentysomething slacker and amateur escape artist who finds himself the last surviving man after a plague kills every creature with a Y chromosome. He and Ampersand embark on a journey to find his fiancee, Beth, in Australia, accompanied by 355, an agent of a secret government agency, and Dr. Mann, a cloning scientist who may hold the key to the plague's cure. [...]
Is Y the Last Man going to be your next film?<
Caruso: Yeah. We turned in the script to Warner Brothers last week, and we're trying to strategize and figure out [how to do it]. ... It's kind of new to New Line and Warner Brothers, because they have a new relationship now, and, yeah, we're hoping that's the next movie. And, hopefully, they'll ... give us the go-ahead to start prepping that movie. And I'd love to prep that late in the fall if I can and roll into shooting that ... after the winter.
So Warner's pretty hot on moving forward.
Caruso: I think they are. We had some discussions, and I know that they would really, really like to have the movie in late 2010 if that's possible.
And Shia LaBeouf, who starred in your films Disturbia and Eagle Eye, again, is your first choice to play Yorick?
Caruso: He's my first choice.
And that won't be complicated by either his schedule on Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen or his hand injury from a recent auto accident?
Caruso: No, because Transformers 2, they're more than halfway done now, and he's out there shooting and doing his thing. I think that's why, too, if I have enough time to prep it, he'll have some time off and can come into it fresh.
What do you think Shia would bring to that role?
Caruso: Well, I think Yorick is a fantastic role for Shia. One, because Yorick has great sort of self-deprecating humor. ... One thing Shia really brings to him is that ... realistic acting style and being put in some crazy, ... super-realistic situations. Shia always keeps them real and keeps it grounded. He's endearing. I'm hoping that the 355 relationship, ... I always thought it would be really cool to have that be sort of a [Robert] De Niro-[Charles] Grodin ... banter type relationship, like they had in Midnight Run. I think that Shia would be a great sort of receiver and giver on both sides of that. I think he'd really bring a lot to it.
Have you given thought to casting of other characters?
Caruso: I haven't given deep thought, because we just [finished the script]. I mean, it was so cool we finally plotted out and licked the first screenplay. I think it's one of three if, God willing, the things are successful. And so I haven't really given it much thought. But, ... it's [going to have 355]. We've got 711. We've got Dr. Mann. We've got Hero. ... We've got a lot of interesting casting choices. You know, as Shia said, this would be a really fun movie to be a guy in [laughs].
Alicia Keys is a name that comes up for 355.
Caruso: Yeah, you know, that ... came up a lot in the last couple of weeks, and it's very interesting. I mean, I have not met her, but I mean, she might be an interesting 355. I thought she did a cool job in the Joe Carnahan movie [Smokin' Aces].
The graphic novel is a sprawling story, and obviously you'd have to pare it down for the first film of three. Do you have an endpoint, and how you would streamline that story?
Caruso: I don't want to give away too much of the end, but I think basically, you know, Yorick and 355 will basically walk away and go off into the sunset, knowing that they're going to have to keep going on the run, and you might sort of look up in the sky and realize that maybe Yorick is at that point, and he might not be the last man or he might be the last man, and that ... the journey and the continuing on the run is going to have to go from there. ...
Primarily in the first movie, I mean, it's really important to stay focused on Yorick. And we do deal with Alter, ... the Israeli army and then the Chinese faction that's coming in as well. But, you know, to get us going, to get us grounded, it's really about Yorick. You know, the anchor of this particular film would be the Yorick-355 relationship.
Have you given thoughts for the second and third films?
Caruso: If we get through this first one and then start thinking about the second ... I haven't given it much thought. It's just been actually very difficult to get the first one into a screenplay, because there's so much great stuff to choose from.
Talk about Brian K. Vaughan's involvement.
Caruso: He's been great. He's been reading all the drafts and sort of going with us. And the one thing which Brian did, which was really great, was to say, "Look, guys, feel free to change this or to do that. Don't be so locked in by everything I did, because I understand that the movie is different than what we have, and ... don't let the fanboys dictate what you do if you change something." And so we've been very good, but we've actually been very close and very respectful and actually just ramped up something a little bit different, which Brian thought was actually a great tweak. And so he's been involved and been very, very helpful.

Quelle: SciFi.com

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Almost two years ago, it was announced the D.J. Caruso would direct and Carl Ellsworth would write an adaptation of Brian K. Vaughn and Pia Guerra's Y: The Last Man.
Since then, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen star Shia LaBeouf's name has come up numerous times as being in talks to play the lead role of Yorick Brown, the lone survivor of a plague that wipes out all males on the planet. The project would have reunited him with Caruso, who directed LaBeouf in Eagle Eye and Disturbia.
But now, LaBeouf tells Wizard magazine that Yorick is too similar to his "Transformers" role of Sam Witwicky.
"You take Sam and you put a monkey on his shoulder," said LaBeouf of Yorick's sidekick Ampersand. "I don't know if it's that big a differential. It seems like he's the ordinary guy in an extraordinary situation again.
He added, "I'm not willing to make that movie currently, and may be too old to play the role by the time it does come around."

Quelle: comingsoon.net

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