Finally appearing to find its place on TV after years of wandering through the wilderness of movie development, the adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra's much-loved comic book series Y: The Last Man shot a pilot for US network FX last year. The good news continues, as the channel has now handed out a full series order.
Y focuses on Yorick (Barry Keoghan in the show), an amateur escape artist who has become the lone male human survivor after a mysterious plague killed off everyone else with a Y chromosome — including all male animals. Except, that is, for his pet capuchin monkey, Ampersand, who follows him around.
Now living in a world entirely filled with women, Yorick heads out on a mission to discover why the tragedy befell the world and to look for his girlfriend Beth (Juliana Canfield), who he last heard was halfway across the world in Australia.
Diane Lane, Imogen Poots, Lashana Lynch, Marin Ireland and Amber Tamblyn are all in the cast for the show, which has been developed and will be overseen by Michael Green and Aïda Mashaka Croal. "Brian and Pia’s exploration of a world without men is a favorite for its depth, its humor, its insights and its monkey," Croal and Green say in a statement. "Adapted today it offers us a cracked mirror to look at our own very cracked world. We thank them for their trust — we thank FX for their support — and we thank the casting gods for letting us work with this incredible group of actors."
Shooting will resume on the show this year with a 2020 air date pencilled in.
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