D.J Caruso on Y: The Last Man Script and Casting Shia LaBeouf

When D.J Caruso was announced to be directing a big screen adaptation of Brian K. Vaughn’s Y: The Last Man, many film sites speculated that Shia LaBeouf could possibly be playing the lead. Shia had expressed interest in the project before and now that DJ Caruso has worked with him on Disturbia and the upcoming Eagle Eye, maybe the two could work together once more?

Speaking to MTV about it, Caruso said,

“This is funny, but unbeknownst to me: Shia was already chasing this part prior to anything. 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.”

It has also been revealed that the movie will focus on the first 12 issues of the comic book series, “sort of combining them into a beginning, middle and end. 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.”

Y: The Last Man is the quite possibly the best non superhero comic book series still running today. The comic follows the story of Yorick Brown, an amateur escape artist and his Capuchin monkey, Ampersand, the last two men on Earth. Something simultaneously kills every mammal possessing a Y chromosome - that includes embryos, fertilized eggs and even sperm! The women cause chaos as they try to cope with the loss of the men. Yorick goes on a mission to Australia to find his girlfriend Beth who was, luckily, on vacation when all of this madness happened!

The Y: The Last Man series of comic books will end with a double sized issue (#60) early next year.

Are you a fan on the comic? Do you think Shia would be perfect for the role of Yorick?

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