Exactly thirteen months ago we reported that FX were getting moving on a TV adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan’s Y: The Last Man. The 60-issue series told the weird and wonderful tale of Yorick and his Capuchin monkey Ampersand, the only two beings with a Y chromosome left alive following a mysterious plague.
The series is a perfect match for the current climate of long form storytelling on the small screen. Enticing viewers into a new world with a mystery at its heart has been the starting point for many shows in recent years; Lost, Heroes and the current poster child Westworld are easy examples of this.
10 Cloverfield Lane and Black Mirror director Dan Trachtenberg was recently attached to the project, as was director D. J. Caruso but the dalliance between the big and the small screen approaches had made the adaptation process a fretful one. With Vaughan back behind the wheel here’s hoping we’ll get to join Yorick and Ampersand before long.