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Ben Schnetzer to Play “Y: The Last Man” in FX Series Pilot
Ben Schnetzer (“Happy Town”) has landed the male lead opposite Diane Lane in FX’s upcoming drama series “Y: The Last Man”, reports Deadline.
He will play the role of Yorick Brown, which has been recast after Barry Keoghan, who had been originally tapped for the part in 2018, recently exited the project, explains the site.
After a delay, following a showrunner change last spring, the series will begin production in April. Melina Matsoukas (“Insecure”, “Master of None”, “Beyoncé: Formation”) will direct the new pilot episode.
“Y: The Last Man” traverses a post-apocalyptic world in which a cataclysmic event decimates all but one cisgender male, Schnetzer’s Yorick Brown, and his pet monkey.
The series follows the survivors in this new world as they struggle with their efforts to restore what was lost and the opportunity to build something better.
It is based on the excellent DC Comics series of the same name by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra.
In addition to Lane and Schnetzer, the cast of “Y” includes Imogen Poots, Lashana Lynch and Juliana Canfield with Marin Ireland and Amber Tamblyn.
IDW Dark and Paramount recently joined forces to launch limited comic book tales set in the worlds of Smile and A Quiet Place, and we’ve learned today that they’ll continue hanging around in those franchise universes with two brand new limited series tales.
Entertainment Weekly has exclusively revealed this afternoon that IDW Dark’s Any Given Smile debuts in September, while A Quiet Place: Rising Tides arrives in November.
First up, from writer Stephanie Williams and artist Pablo Collar, Any Given Smile puts a football-themed twist on Parker Finn’s successful Smile movie franchise.
The five-part limited series is “set in January 1995, during the American Arena League football championship game in St. Augustine, Florida. The rising superstar of the Sharks, backup quarterback Dupree, is feeling the pressure from his teammates, the fans, and also the city’s gambling underworld, to whom he owes a considerable debt. Meanwhile, a sports journalist investigates a string of suicides that may be connected to the big game. At the very least, they are connected to a sinister entity that preys on the minds of its victims.”
From writer Declan Shalvey and artist Luke Sparrow, A Quiet Place: Rising Tides will also be a five-issue limited story. The comic book tale “brings the creatures to the Florida Keys, where a father-daughter duo attempt to survive on water in a houseboat.”
EW further details, “This tense family reunion coincides with the arrival of the vicious creatures that hunt through sound. Grace and her dad find safety on the open ocean, but she’ll have to make landfall sooner or later; the father’s oxygen tank and their supplies are running low, while a hurricane swiftly approaches.”
Learn more about both comic books over on Entertainment Weekly.
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