Y: the last man movie

[pigkiller]

So apparently they're making a Y: The Last Man movie. Let me just say I am glad that it appears they are going to let Brian Vaughn write it instead of the jackass that wrote I, Robot(as originally announced).

Today me and my friends were trying to decide who should play each of the characters.

Apparently Brian Vaughn wants Topher Grace to play Yorrick.

What about everybody else?

Jada Pinkett Smith as 355?

Sandra Oh would probably play Dr. Mann.

[themazingscrewonhead]

Hey there is already an Y feature movie it's called..
Children of men....bloody brillant it is too...

What do I mean??
Children of Men could pass of an sequel to any Y feature or the other way around coz they have very simlar concepts :D

[dtgooden]

If by very similar, you mean mostly different, then I agree with you. Saving Mankind from lack of procreation, would be the broad similarity, but I think that's about it.

Regardless, Y is a great concept, though I'm biased for most post-apocolyptic stuff. I can't wait to see the movie. If done right, it could be stellar.

[Ruthless_Pryde]

Seriously, I think Y would be WAY better as an HBO series. I don't see how they can really make it that intresting in two hours. Are they going to do a trilogy like the matrix or star wars or something? You know where the first movie sets it up and 2 is a to be continued kinda thing and it's all finished in part three?

Brian Vaughn, if you're listening, go for a TV show on HBO, you could tell the whole story that way.

[pigkiller]

Seriously, I think Y would be WAY better as an HBO series. I don't see how they can really make it that intresting in two hours. Are they going to do a trilogy like the matrix or star wars or something? You know where the first movie sets it up and 2 is a to be continued kinda thing and it's all finished in part three?

Brian Vaughn, if you're listening, go for a TV show on HBO, you could tell the whole story that way.

That's one of the first thing's I thought, when I read they were turning it into a movie.

It seems logical that if they do it, they would do it as a trilogy, though I haven't heard any mention of it. I don't know how else you could tell the story otherwise.

I could see a miniseries being good, but the script has already been optioned by a studio, so the chance of that happening is pretty much Nil.

The main problem I see with it as a trilogy is the first movie has to be somewhat stand alone, incase it doesn't do well enough to merit two more films. The first film of both the Star Wars and Matrix trilogies could be watched as a stand alone film. There are still a lot of loose ends, but they don't end on a cliffhanger of any sort. I can't see a really obvious way to do this with Y.

[Zentarien]

This is the same thing which is happening for a Japanese movie i am waiting for title Dororo, waiting to see how they write it for a 2 hours movie.

Yea, i love Y, but i also rather it be a HBO series

[Steve Brady]

Assuming he follows a straight adaptation, good stopping points seem to be:

1) the end of One Small Step - Alter is defeated, Yorick has some hope that he's not the last male.

2) the end of Ring of Truth - Lots of resolution about the plague, but Ampersand is kidnapped. Very Empire Strikes Back.

That's 1-17, and 18-31. Even if those could be squeezed into movies, can the last 29?


Does everything have to be a trilogy? B)

[Ruthless_Pryde]

That is kind of what I was thinking in the way the story would unfold.

I agree, everythign doesn't have to be a triology, but some stories need more room to be told than others, Y is one of those. They can even do a first movie and then go to an HBO series to keep it going from there. That would be cool.

[surfDUI]

It's kind of an anti-climactic story.
I've been in to the Vertigo series for quite a while, and an HBO series would serve the situational story better, unltimatly they're not going to find any men, and if they did then there goes the story.

If this is fleshed out-I think the pop-culture jokes would be a casualty,
as well it becoming a female case study. Some of the chicks in the story, esentially become men.

Then to I'm a fan of NOT making a live-action version of all the comics I've been into.

[stealthwise]

It's kind of an anti-climactic story.
I've been in to the Vertigo series for quite a while, and an HBO series would serve the situational story better, unltimatly they're not going to find any men, and if they did then there goes the story.

If this is fleshed out-I think the pop-culture jokes would be a casualty,
as well it becoming a female case study. Some of the chicks in the story, esentially become men.

Then to I'm a fan of NOT making a live-action version of all the comics I've been into.

Don't read if you want to be surprised by the following volumes that are currently being released.

As to your first point... WRONG

[pigkiller]

I was having trouble picturing topher grace as Yorrick, or anyone as Yorrick for that matter, but my friend said Jake Gyllenhaal, and I think that he would fit really well.

[stealthwise]

I was having trouble picturing topher grace as Yorrick, or anyone as Yorrick for that matter, but my friend said Jake Gyllenhaal, and I think that he would fit really well.

Gyllenhaal's acting style of late seems to be far too... intense? Morose? I'm not sure what it is, but I don't see him as Yorick. Topher Grace seems like a perfect fit to me, mostly because he can play such a great jackass, yet still make you care about him.

[Sean Walsh]

See.......as a series, it could work. But this is a soon-to-end Vertigo series. Why do a TV series of something we'll know the ending to?

As a movie....sure, they'd have to cut a lot out, but it would work well for a self-contained story, which is what Y is.

[Doom Hammer]

Topher Grace is good, but I'd go with Zach Braff, if the choice was up to me.

He really fills the role that Brian Vaughn has written. He's a creative, interesting, quirky, geeky kind of guy. And what I mean by that is he's not one of these ultra-confident lantern-jawed studs, though he's far from being unattractive.

He's proven himself to be a hilarious, quick-witted comedian and a talented dramatic actor, and his ability to switch back and forth is something that becomes Yorick, who hides his depression through sarcastic posturing and joking.

Plus, he kind of looks like Yorick. It's not exact or anything, but it's easily imaginable.

He just oozes "regular guy", which is what Yorick is. It's almost unsettling that the man to deliver humankind from the brink of extinction is just like you or me...except maybe a little less impressive.

And he's the kind of creative guy in real life who might be interested in such a role.

Overall, he can really pull off the character that BKV has sculpted. "I can't believe it. You're really a man.

...but just barely."

[Hi-Fi]

Nah, I love Zach Braff on Scrubs, but he would be annoying as Yorick. If only John Cusack was younger...


NEWSFLASH: I cried for the first time ever while reading a comic book with last issue. Fuck Brian K. Vaughan for that!


I don't want this book to end. :(

[Siddon]

Yorick - John Kransinski (The Office)
Hero - Anna Paquin (X-men, The Piano)
Dr. Allison Mann - Grace Park (Battlestar Galactica)
355 - Kerry Washington (Boston Legal, Save the Last Dance)
Victoria - Toni Collete (Little Miss Sunshine)
Beth - Jewel Staite (Firefly)

I would have part 1 take place over the first 10 issues