But I'm very excited to be the one who gets to make it.
So many years before it, the many, many years of development of shows/movies, all the things that have come before me, I can't speak to. And from there, I just felt like making a show. So, we started the writers' room for Season 1 in July of 2019.
Below, in this one-on-one interview with Collider, she explains how she approached the story with that in mind, how many seasons she could see the show going, why she wanted Y the Last Man to work as an ensemble, and how those working behind the camera created their own definition of "the female gaze" to guide things.Ĭollider: So talk to me a little bit about how you came on originally?ĮLIZA CLARK: I can't really speak to what happened before me, but I'll say that when I was brought on, I pitched my take on the material and FX and Color Force were excited about it. Vaughn and artist Pia Guerra, knowing that a key aspect of taking on a story like this would mean updating the original material (with Vaughn and Guerra's blessing) to incorporate a 2021 understanding of gender today. Showrunner Eliza Clark came onto the project pre-COVID to oversee the adaptation of the comics created by writer Brian K.
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The epic story about the aftermath of a plague which kills every living creature with a Y chromosome, save one young man and his monkey, first defied multiple attempts at being adapted for film - and then, even as a TV show, had to contend with a change in showrunners, recastings, and a little ol' real-life pandemic. Y the Last Man's journey from acclaimed graphic novel to eventual television show took some time to happen.
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