Jan 01 2009
Y The Last Man
Happy New Year!!! 2009, here we come.
This weekend I will be posting a new schedule for Junk Film, some may like it, some may not, but it will get me writing on a more regular basis… and that is always good.
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Junk Film star, John S reports on the updates of the film adaptation of “Y The Last Man.”
The super popular comic book by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra. The book is outstanding and has been featured on two of Junk Film’s Weekly Recommends in the years 2007 and 2008. It has been a couple years since the first talks about a film adaptation for the book have surfaced. Looks like things are moving forward.
John reports:
“The film rights to the series have been acquired by New Line Cinema, and as of July 24, 2007 screenwriter Carl Ellsworth and director D. J. Caruso, the team behind Disturbia, are attached to the project with David S. Goyer (the scribe behind Batman Begins and Dark Knight) as a producer.
Caruso intends on finishing the script in the summer and filming during the fall of 2008. The script will be a rewrite of the original draft written by Vaughan himself.
Caruso claims that the source material was too much to be told in one movie and they decided to concentrate on the best first movie they can, which would end somewhere around issue 14 of the comic series. The entire comic series as a whole would be plotted into three movies. Rumors have been circulating that actor Shia LaBeouf will play the role of Yorick. Caruso and LaBeouf have worked together in both the films Disturbia and Eagle Eye. Caruso plans to use a real monkey, and not a CGI construct, to play Ampersand.”
While the news is great, the only thing that has be terrified is that fact that they want Shia (whom I actually like as an actor, but his recent roles has decreased his credibility) and the director Caruso has directed two monumental pieces of shit, both mentioned above (a shitty remake and a summer teen lack-luster waste of time).
We can only pray.
