It’s been a year or two now since we last heard anything about New Line’s upcoming adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan’s Vertigo comic book series Y: The Last Man. It was definitely starting to look like the project would be forever trapped in development hell, but this week the movie is once again showing signs of life as New Line has hired a new pair of screenwriters to take another crack at a script. According to THR, they have hired Matthew Federman and Stephen Scaia (Human Target, Jericho) to take the movie “back to the drawing board.” The screenwriters are not necessarily recognizable or even respected names, but at the very least, I am glad to see the movie hasn’t been abandoned just yet and that we may eventually get a new director and star to replace D.J. Caruso and Shia LaBeouf.

For those unfamiliar with the comic, Y: The Last Man is a post-apocalyptic tale that explores what might happen to the world if a plague instantly killed every male mammal on the planet. Yorick is the only male survivor, an amateur escape artist living in New York City. He heads off across the U.S. in search of answers and in search of his girlfriend, along with his pet monkey and a secret agent who has been assigned to protect him.

Federman and Scaia are mostly known for their TV work (their most recent project being the short-lived Charlie’s Angels reboot), but they also recently wrote the script for Sony’s untitled Zorro film (not to be confused with Fox’s Zorro Reborn). A previous script for Y: The Last Man was written by Carl Ellsworth (Disturbia, Red Eye) and, if memory serves, Vaughan also wrote a draft himself. Coincidentally, Vaughan’s new comic book series Saga hits stores this week. Are you still hopeful for a Y: The Last Man movie? Who would you like to see direct?