FX Orders ‘Y: The Last Man’ Pilot – Will This Show Finally Get Made?

Is a Y The Last Man TV show finally happening? It just might be, as FX have officially ordered a pilot adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra‘s highly acclaimed comic series.

A Y: The Last Man series has been knocking around for quite some time, and now it might finally see the light of day. Variety reports that FX has ordered a Y: The Last Man pilot, with Michael Green (American Gods, Blade Runner 2049, Logan) and Aida Mashaka Croal (Luke Cage, Turn) set to serve as co-showrunners. The series will be based on the comic of the same name. which focuses on “Yorick Brown — the only human survivor of a planet-wide plague that instantly kills every mammal possessing a Y chromosome. Accompanied by a mysterious government agent, a brilliant young geneticist and his pet monkey, Ampersand, Yorick travels the world in search of his lost love and the answer to why he’s the last man on earth.”

There have been several attempts to adapt Y: The Last Man. At one point D.J. Caruso was going to direct a film adaptation starring Shia LaBeouf, but it never happened, because Lionsgate wanted a single standalone film instead of a three-film series. Since then, TV has seemed to be Y: The Last Man‘s destiny. FX’s interest in adapting the comic into a series was announced in 2015.

In 2017, Nick Gad, FX’s President of Original Programming, confirmed the Y series was still in the works, saying, “We’re supposed to get a script in the next couple months […] It’s going to be an ongoing series.” Brian K Vaughan provided an update in 2017 as well, saying:

“I recently read a phenomenal draft of the Y: The Last Man pilot by Michael Green for FX. Should have some very cool news about another adaptation soon.”

Later, Michael Green revealed that the series became delayed thanks to the 2016 presidential election:

“It would have been a very different show, and very different development process, had the election not been as horrifying as it was. I had to put the script down for a couple months and really reassess it tonally, because it became a different creature, it became violent protest. It couldn’t not be political, and I had to embrace it, and I had to find my way in, and I had to find a way to channel my own dismay, disappointment and rage into it, while still keeping it what it is. For a minute there I almost walked away.”

Now, it seems like all the pieces are in place for the Y: The Last Man pilot. If FX likes what they see, it’s only a matter of time before the Y The Last Man TV show sees the light of day.

A mysterious plague has killed every man on earth except Yorick Brown, who was somehow spared. That is the provocative premise of the comics series whose first five issues make up this book. The sole Y-chromosomed survivor is an amiable, headstrong young man, the son of a U.S. congresswoman and, as it happens, an amateur escape artist. He spends most of the story on the run from a tribe of self-styled Amazons bent on eliminating the last vestige of patriarchy. He is also trying, with a bioengineer who may be responsible for the worldwide “gendercide,” to figure out why he survived; hoping to reach his girlfriend in Australia; and, of course, contemplating the repopulation of the planet. Rather pedestrian artwork doesn’t do much to liven the story, though its straightforwardness imparts deadpan believability to such ramifications as the female secretary of agriculture ascending to the presidency. Fast-paced anyway, the yarn introduces a large number of intriguing characters and plotlines as it lays the groundwork for what promises to be a compelling series.

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