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10:06 am - 01/29/2013

Y: The Last Man Director Is Named


The film adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan’s popular graphic novel Y: The Last Man has been in development for a decade, and four months after Vulture learned that it had become a priority at New Line, we now hear that the project finally has a director.
It’s Dan Trachtenberg, a first-time feature director who made the short “No Escape,” a popular fan film of the video game, Portal.

Y follows the adventures of Yorick Brown, a young escape artist who discovers that he, along with his monkey, Ampersand, may be the only males left living after a plague knocks off almost everyone with a Y chromosome. In nabbing this project on the basis of a fan film, it seems that Trachtenberg beat out the director of an actual Y: The Last Man fan film made by Captain America visual effects supervisor, Christian Cardona. It’s a fan-film-tastic fracas!

Here is Trachtenberg’s “No Escape”:

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Who do you think should be cast in the film?
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mammary_glands 29th-Jan-2013 04:15 pm (UTC)
and he's a huge comic book nerd too so it bodes well for us as fans
kwikimart 29th-Jan-2013 05:07 pm (UTC)
Not really, he could be easier to manipulate by the studio
mammary_glands 29th-Jan-2013 05:18 pm (UTC)
because he's an unknown? at least he seems to respect the source material and even be a fan of it. i think as long as the director is willing to tell the story in one movie, the studios are cool. what more would they need to manipulate?
kwikimart 29th-Jan-2013 05:21 pm (UTC)
Uhmmm they can push who they want to be cast in it, they can change the tone if they want (this is a super common practice), they control the funding so they can do whatever they want with it and are more likely to be able to push around someone that doesn't have a lot of power in Hollywood.

It's more likely that they would manipulate him than they wouldn't.
mammary_glands 29th-Jan-2013 05:26 pm (UTC)
noooooooooooooooooooo. not no @ what you're saying but nooo, there goes what little optimism i had.
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