New Line's tapped D.J. Caruso to helm and Carl Ellsworth to write the comicbook adaptation "
Y: The Last Man" for producers Chris Bender, JC Spink, Mason Novick and David Goyer.
Story centers on a mysterious plague killing nearly all the world's male mammals overnight. A magician who's the only survivor among this group and his male pet monkey set out to find what may have wiped out the male chromosomes.