Tuesday, June 23

• Shia LaBeouf as Y: The Last Man -- Not a Question of "Will?" but "When?"

  Last time Shia LaBeouf spoke about comic adaptation Y: The Last Man, it seemed he was not interested in the project, saying the character of Yorick in Y was a little too similar to his character of Sam in Transformers.

  The character similarity is still an issue for LaBeouf, but that doesn't mean the movie won't happen, especially since Y is his "favorite comic book." LaBeouf told Collider that the movie is just on hold for a little while.

  We DO want to make it. [Brian K.] Vaughn and [Carl] Ellsworth and D.J. [Caruso] are writing the script now. The script is not ready to be shot. DJ is making a different movie right now. He's making Jack and the Beanstalk. There's just other things going on with DJ and I wouldn't want to make the movie with anybody else because he loves it like I do. But I don't think Vaughn is trying to give it to anybody else. I think that it is something that's very realistic, it's just not in the pipe for the next year.

  If not next year, when? LaBeouf is already set to make the Wall Street sequel Money Never Sleeps and a fifth Indiana Jones.

  
  

  Posted 06/23/2009 by Ryan

  Related: D.J. Caruso | Carl Ellsworth | Shia LaBeouf | Y: The Last Man | Transformers | Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Tuesday, July 24

• Y: The Last Man and Jonah Hex coming to the big screen

  Fanboy alert! Two major comic book adaptations are in the works.

  Vertigo's Y: The Last Man--about an escape artist named Yorick who, along with his pet monkey, are the last surviving male mammals after a mysterious plague--is making its way to the silver screen.

  The force behind the surprise hit Disturbia, director D.J. Caruso and writer Carl Ellsworth are working on the adaptation of the Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra's popular comic.

  Not to be slighted, DC Comics' Jonah Hex is also slated for movie adaptation. Hex, the Confederate-army-uniform-wearing-part-time-bounty-hunter/gunslinger with a partially disfigured face, will be made into a a comic/Western with "supernatural overtones."

  Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, the team behind Crank, are heading up the project. 

  Source: The Hollywood Reporter.

  
  

  Posted 07/24/2007 by reelz

  Related: D.J. Caruso | Carl Ellsworth | Mark Neveldine | Y: The Last Man | Jonah Hex