Michael Green Talks Possible 'Y: The Last Man' TV Series

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After a decade of false starts, American Gods showrunner Michael Green has written a pilot for FX. Green, who is having the best year any screenwriter has had in decades, shed light on the status of a Y series during an early July breakfast interview with The Hollywood Reporter.

The series, which debuted in 2002 and ran 60 issues, told the story of Yorick Brown and his capuchin monkey Ampersand, the last surviving Y chromosome mammals on earth after an unexplained apocalypse wiped out all other males.

In 2014, the rights reverted back to Vaughan, who turned to trying to get a Y: The Last Man TV series made.

Green came on in 2016 as a show runner for an adaptation on FX. In June, Vaughan told CBR, "I recently read a phenomenal draft of the Y: The Last Man pilot. Should have some very cool news about another adaptation soon."

Fans will like Green's promise that the series will have a defined length, "Whether it is 60, 70 or 80 episodes." He promises, "I'm gonna pick a number, and I'm gonna stick to it. And I'm gonna write to it. There's so many brilliant things in that comic, the two biggest are the premise, and the ending." He believes Vaughan's writing "Toward an ending that he knew" made the series more "Meaningful." He calls the set length of the series a "Pact" with the audience, adding, "It will help them to know that we're ticking down."

There's one last thing Green is willing to reveal about his plans for the show: He believes a comic book about a world dominated by women needs not just a writers room with lots of female voices, but on the crew as well.

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