During a New York Comic Con interview, Elijah Wood expressed his interested in playing Y: The Last Man. Y is the lead character in the famous comic book series by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra, which Vertigo Comics published in the early 2000s. Y: The Last Man takes place in a version of the world where all "Y" chromosome mammals simultaneously die. The sole exceptions are an amateur escape artist named Yorick Bown, and his monkey, Ampersand. The comic series has been rumored for screen adaptation for years now. After failed attempts at films in the late 2000s and early 2010s, rumors of a TV series began in 2015, with recent news that a pilot has indeed been written. FX was the network where the show was last being developed.