Looks like there’s another comic book turned movie project in the works. MTV news got to speak to the talented director, D.J. Caruso about his upcoming adaptation to the popular comic, Y The Last Man.
Latino Review gives us this:
“Y” is reaching its 60th issue, but Caruso and “Disturbia” screenwriter Carl Ellsworth are distilling the movie version to focus on the first 12 issues, “sort of combining them into a beginning, middle and end,” Caruso said. “The problem is that even in the first 12, there is so much great stuff, it’s like, what do you leave out? There really isn’t a ticking clock with Yorick, so what we basically did was give him a reason to get from Boston to California in a really short time.”
With Caruso and Shia LaBeouf’s already-established working relationship (“Disturbia” and the upcoming “Eagle Eye”), does the director already have his “last man”? “This is funny, but unbeknownst to me: Shia was already chasing this part prior to anything,” Caruso said. “I haven’t talked to him yet about it because he’s off shooting ‘Indiana Jones 4,’ but Shia is the right type and the right personality because you want to have the humor, but you also want to have the seriousness. So we’ll talk about it when we get there.”
Unfortunately I have never read any of the ‘Y The Last Man’ comic books, but I am very excited to see this movie if it has the Disturbia team behind it. Although, I really doubt it that Shia Lebeouf would be able to film this movie considering his soaring popularity and rapidly increasing filmography.
This project also sounds different from the other “Last Man of Earth” film projects that I have witnessed throughout my lifetime. I’m thrilled to finally see a movie where women are kick ass soldiers instead of whiny and helpless victims who needs the last man on Earth to rescue and save them. What about you?
