Y: The Last Man director D.J. Caruso (Eagle Eye, Disturbia) indicated that he is planning to helm a Y: The Last Man trilogy in order to do justice to Brian K. Vaughan’s 10-volume Vertigo graphic novel series, in an interview with SciFi.com.  Caruso also indicated that Shia LaBeouf is “definitely interested” in starring in the science fiction saga about a plague that kills every mammal with Y chromosome except for Yorick Brown and his Capuchin monkey Ampersand.  Caruso told Scifi that he will give the script to Shia when he and writer Carl Ellsworth (Disturbia) have finished polishing it.

Caruso and Ellsworth turned in a first draft to Warner Bros. and they are now in the process of pumping up the third act of the first film while still staying close to Vaughan’s original story.  The decision to split the saga up into three parts creates its own problems in terms of creating a dramatic structure for each of three films, while keeping the overall storyline going, but as Caruso told Scifi, “It’s definitely a three-parter.  Trying to fit the whole story in one (movie) is too much.”

Caruso clearly sees Y: The Last Man as an epic project, and he has talked about using IMAX cameras to shoot substantial portions of the film (see “Y: The Last Man in IMAX”).  Even without a movie the Y: The Last Man graphic novels, which have all been top sellers in the direct market, have been tearing it up in the bookstores as well where ICv2 has pegged the series as the #3 “Genre” graphic novel property of 2008 in the bookstore market.