New: DJ Caruso talks Y: The Last Man

While he’s putting the finishing touches to the Shia LaBeouf-starring thriller Eagle Eye, director DJ Caruso has been chatting up the prospects for the film he wants to make next.

He’s been planning to adapt Brian K Vaughn’s beloved (and rightly so) graphic novel series Y: The Last Man for a while now. The story, for those who don’t know, follows smart-alec wannabe escape artist Yorick Brown on an epic adventure when he and his capuchin monkey, Ampersand become the last male mammals on Earth after a mysterious plague wipes out everyone else with a Y chromosome.

According to Caruso, it may now find a home at Warners following the company sucking New Line into itself like shuttles get swallowed in Moonraker. Writer Carl Ellsworth (Disturbia) is close to finishing a draft of the script and Caruso has big plans. “I definitely see it as a trilogy. I see the first movie pick up six weeks after the incident then progressing down only a five or six week journey from that point on until the end of the first movie,” he tells Slash Film in an interview .

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