Trivia / Y: The Last Man (2021)

• Queer Character, Queer Actor: Elliot Fletcher is a trans man and plays Sam Jordan, who shares his gender.
• Screwed by the Network: After all the hell the show went through to get on the air, it only got to air for a single month before being cancelled. On top of that, it was removed from Hulu and Disney+ as a cost-cutting measure a couple of years later, making it unavailable to watch legally.
• Technology Marches On: The 2002-2008 comic still had people using flip phones. The series does update this, although luxuries like high-speed internet are no longer available after the gendercide.
• Troubled Production: Attempts at getting the comic series a Live-Action Adaptation were fraught, to say the least. In early 2007, New Line Cinema bought the film rights, with shooting supposed to start by fall 2008. The script passed through many hands, including Brian K. Vaughan himself, but no one could crack compressing the story enough to fit into a movie's runtime while still staying true to the original series. Ultimately the director, D.J. Caruso, and his team pitched a trilogy to New Line (the first movie would have ended at issue #14) but were told it needed to be one movie, causing Caruso to quit the project. By 2013, a new script was written with a new director — but then the rights reverted back to Vaughan and co-creator Pia Guerra before shooting could start. In 2015, Vaughan and Guerra optioned the rights for a show to debut on FX set to debut sometime in 2019 or 2020 — but then showrunners Aida Mashaka Croal and Michael Green exited the project during pre-production due to Creative Differences. The show was significantly retooled and was set for shooting in March 2020, but then the COVID-19 pandemic hit. After all that, the series eventually premiered on September 13, 2021 as a production of FX on Hulu — only to be canceled a month later. At this point, it's safe to say the live-action production was cursed.
• What Could Have Been: Clark said that there were attempts to persuade TV/streaming networks to at least back a potential Season 2 after the first season was cancelled. She didn't get any positive response, which was when she took to social media and said that there will be no season 2.