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Shia LaBeouf has his eye on big-screen adaptation of Y: The Last Man
By David Bentley on Jul 30, 08 09:21 AM in Film gossip
SHIA LABEOUF has said he is keen to play the lead in a movie adaptation of the comicbook Y: The Last Man.
Director D.J. Caruso says he and screenwriter Carl Ellsworth will be delivering a script to Warner Bros this week and hope the film will be the start of a trilogy. The film deal was originally with New Line, which is now part of WB.
Caruso told ComingSoon he hopes to begin production in October and begin filming in January, giving time for 22-year-old LaBeouf to complete filming on Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
The comicbook series, by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra and published by DC's Vertigo imprint, is set in 2002, when a mysterious disease suddenly kills every mammal with a Y chromosome: every male of every species. The only male survivors are a young escape artist called Yorick Brown and his capuchin monkey Ampersand. The pair discover on their travels the various ways that Earth's women are adapting to the aftermath of the plague and the threat of mankind's extinction.
Caruso, Ellsworth and LaBeouf previously worked together on the movies Disturbia and Eagle Eye.
Caruso said he felt he had finally cracked the story of Y to translate it to film successfully. He said: "There's so much to choose from. Just trying to narrow down the story, and in all the drafts written over the years there's a lot of great stuff in there, but what I think Y was missing in screenplay form was a ticking clock. So we did something where we separated Yorick from Ampersand for a brief period of time where Yorick gets very sick.
"I definitely see it as a trilogy. It's been hard, in a good way, just because there's so much good stuff to choose from.
"Shia wants to do it, I want to do it. The thing we have to worry about is him being exhausted. So I said if I prep in the fall and we start in January, that's a nice big break."
LaBeouf is currently recovering from surgery after he was injured in a car crash on Sunday. He was arrested on suspicion of drink-driving after his vehicle collided with a truck and has had "extensive surgery" to his head, hand and knee. He will miss a month of filming on the Transformers sequel while he recuperates.
By David Bentley on Jul 30, 08 09:21 AM in Film gossip
SHIA LABEOUF has said he is keen to play the lead in a movie adaptation of the comicbook Y: The Last Man.
Director D.J. Caruso says he and screenwriter Carl Ellsworth will be delivering a script to Warner Bros this week and hope the film will be the start of a trilogy. The film deal was originally with New Line, which is now part of WB.
Caruso told ComingSoon he hopes to begin production in October and begin filming in January, giving time for 22-year-old LaBeouf to complete filming on Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
The comicbook series, by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra and published by DC's Vertigo imprint, is set in 2002, when a mysterious disease suddenly kills every mammal with a Y chromosome: every male of every species. The only male survivors are a young escape artist called Yorick Brown and his capuchin monkey Ampersand. The pair discover on their travels the various ways that Earth's women are adapting to the aftermath of the plague and the threat of mankind's extinction.
Caruso, Ellsworth and LaBeouf previously worked together on the movies Disturbia and Eagle Eye.
Caruso said he felt he had finally cracked the story of Y to translate it to film successfully. He said: "There's so much to choose from. Just trying to narrow down the story, and in all the drafts written over the years there's a lot of great stuff in there, but what I think Y was missing in screenplay form was a ticking clock. So we did something where we separated Yorick from Ampersand for a brief period of time where Yorick gets very sick.
"I definitely see it as a trilogy. It's been hard, in a good way, just because there's so much good stuff to choose from.
"Shia wants to do it, I want to do it. The thing we have to worry about is him being exhausted. So I said if I prep in the fall and we start in January, that's a nice big break."
LaBeouf is currently recovering from surgery after he was injured in a car crash on Sunday. He was arrested on suspicion of drink-driving after his vehicle collided with a truck and has had "extensive surgery" to his head, hand and knee. He will miss a month of filming on the Transformers sequel while he recuperates.
