Eliza Clark, executive producer and showrunner of FX’s adaptation of “Y: The Last Man,” read the comic 10 years ago and was drawn to its story of survival.
She responded to how it looked at power and systems of oppression in the wake of a cataclysmic event that kills all men on the planet.
The series is the culmination of over a decade’s worth of attempts to tell authors Bryan K.
Vaughan and Pia Guerra’s story.Clark wanted to take all the things she loved and update it for the series, specifically where it concerns gender.
“Our show is gender diverse,” she said Friday, during the show’s panel session at the TCA Summer Press Tour.
“We’ve made the representation of this world, in some ways, very different [from the comic book.]”The lone male survivor, Yorick (Ben Schnetzer), once set apart in the graphic novel because of his gender, is now separated by his biology.
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