Running under the Vertigo imprint back in 2002 before finishing up in 2008, the series Y: The Last Man has been set up at FX since 2015 in trying to bring it to reality. The sixty-issue series from Brian K. Vaughn and Pia Guerra has gone through a couple of attempts but this one looks like it’ll actually go the distance as a cast has been revealed for it. The main cast so far includes:
- Barry Keoghan as Yorick Brown(Dunkirk, The Killing of a Sacred Deer)
- Diane Lane as Senator Jennifer Brown
- Imogen Poots as Hero Brown (Green Room, Frank & Lola)
- Lashana Lynch as Agent 355 (Captain Marvel, Bulletproof),
- Juliana Canfield as Beth (Succession)
- Marin Ireland Nora (Sneaky Pete, Hell or High Water)
Michael Green and Aida Mashaka Croal serve as the showrunners on it.
The description of the series from FX reads with, “Y traverses a post-apocalyptic world in which a cataclysmic event has decimated every male mammal save for one lone human. The new world order of women will explore gender, race, class and survival.”
Plot concept: This is the saga of 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.
