By [ad_1]
Y: The Last Man showrunner Eliza Clark reveals how many seasons her vision for the comic book adaptation calls for.
Y: The Last Man showrunner Eliza Clark says her vision for the long-awaited comic book adaptation calls for at least five seasons.
During an interview with Polygon, Clark was asked how many seasons she believes would be necessary to fully tell the story of Y. “Five or six seasons is what I’m thinking,” she said. “Without giving anything away, the comic is a great template, but the show will have its own twists and turns. Generally speaking, I feel like television is best at about five seasons.”
Clark refers to the original Y: The Last Man comic book series created by writer Brian K. Vaughan and artist Pia Guerra, which was published under DC’s now-defunct Vertigo Comics imprint. The award-winning title ran for a total of 60 issues between 2002 and 2008. Like Vaughan and Guerra’s comic, the upcoming TV series follows Yorick Brown, the sole survivor of a mysterious plague that kills every mammal on Earth with a Y chromosome.
Y: The Last Man is slated to premiere under the FX on Hulu banner in less than two weeks’ time on Monday, Sept. 13. That being said, acclaimed comic series didn’t exactly have the quickest route to the world of live-action.
A film adaptation of Y entered development back in 2007 after New Line Cinema acquired the rights to the comic. The project never got of the ground, however, with multiple directors and screenwriters being attached to the film over the years before it was ultimately canceled, with the rights reverting back to Vaughan and Guerra in 2014.
In 2015, a TV adaptation of Y: The Last Man entered development at FX, with Michael Green boarding the series as showrunner one year later. In 2018, Aida Mashaka Croal joined the fray as Green’s co-showrunner and a pilot was ordered. The pilot — simply titled Y — starred Barry Keoghan as Yorick Brown, Diane Lane as Jennifer Brown, Imogen Poots as Hero Brown and Lashana Lynch as Agent 355, with production beginning on Aug. 20, 2018.
Y was officially ordered to series in February 2019. Two months later, however, Green and Croal departed as showrunners due to creative differences with FX. Two months after that, Clark signed on to helm the show. In February 2020, it was reported that Keoghan had departed the project and that the role of Yorick Brown would be recast, with Ben Schnetzer landing the role before the month was out.
In June 2020, it was announced that the title of the show would officially by Y: The Last Man and that it would stream as part of the FX on Hulu lineup. By October, production on the series had begun, with Olivia Thirlby replacing Poots as Hero and Ashley Romans replacing Lynch as 355. (Lane remains attached to the show.) Production wrapped this past July.
While Clark’s five-to-six-season vision for Y: The Last Man is certainly ambitious, it seems rather likely that the show will at least be renewed beyond Season 1. FX’s lineup of Hulu-exclusive programming is on a bit of a roll in terms of renewals at the moment, with American Horror Stories and Reservation Dogs both recently getting second-season pickups.
Y: The Last Man premieres Sept. 13 on FX on Hulu.
Source: Polygon
About The Author
[ad_2]
