And as far as a female director for Y: The Last Man is concerned, the only substantial name that comes to mind is Kathryn Bigelow. With films in her resume such as Near Dark, Strange Days and now The Hurt Locker, I think he more than has what it takes to tell that story well.

Oh, BTW if you can find her early short films (collected as “Passionless Moments”) they are totally worth watching. They are just these really neat short long shots with a narrator. GREAT slice of life, awkward, real, quirky-but-not-in-a-hip-way things.

Three movies? In my count since Piano (her real breakout) she’s done four more movies over 15 years, all of which I think are perfect and no different than a lot of other more artsy directors. Hell, she’s already got more directing credits than Kubrik.

I think she could do a good job though. Her films are pretty diverse, I don’t think she has a “kind of project”.

And as for it not being possible, well I think if they’ll give Punisher to a woman they’ll give Y The Last Man.

Again, I can bitterly rant about why there aren’t many to name, but no one needs to hear it…

Oh whatever. They’re not gonna give it to a chick anyway.

Sorry, just one of those bitter kind of days.

@ I’m also getting the impression that you are taking it’s success as a personal insult to your well being.

I admit you’re right. Not it’s success per se. But there’s something about the fan base for this movie that gets me riled up. I despise them on a personal level. What is wrong with these people that makes them claim to like this interminable chore of a movie?
David Gordon Green once called Kevin Smith “the special olymics of filmmaking” but it’s Bay who deserves that label. He is incompetent in terms of story development, directing actors, editing, pacing and pretty much everything that qualifies as the art of cinema.
He slides by on his prowess at staging actions scenes but his skills are totally oversold. To date he has directed one (1) good action scene, it’s the car chase in bad boys two (I might begrudgingly throw in the ’sploshins in Pearl Harbor. But anyone who likes that movie is a brain ambutee).
Good action directors understand how to establish pacing, and that action scenes are still narrative story telling. Their set pieces build, they have a begining middle and end, they crescendo. They establish geography. Bay wouldn’t know how to do any of that to save his life. His skills are narrower than that. He’s good at concieving of and executing cool shots that look good in trailers. He’s still a commercial director at heart and his films work better as trailers than as movies.

Look at what JJ Abrams did with the opening to Star Trek. It’s not just people running around waving their arms wildly and yelling hysterically. He builds excitement and then turns it into suspense and then manages to tug at our heart strings. And it all works together. In that scene Abrams shows more skill as an action director than Bay ever has in his entire career.

He lacks the imagination to be a great action director. He can’t build set pieces like a real director. He just shakes the camera, lights it with a strobe light and uses quick cuts edited together randomly. Go rewatch The Rock, it’s not any better than any of PWS Anderson’s films. But you can always count on his idiotic fan base of retard frat boys to furrow their brows unintelligently and clap like trained seals “Megan Fox is hawt! What did you expect it’s an action film!”
If I hear one more of these cretins lecture me about how “It’s not supposed to be shakespear it’s an action film” I’m going to punch fanboys in their collective crotch.

If The Beef really can’t tell the difference between Yorick and Transformers kid than he’s broken his ability to tell shit from gold. And seriously, I think Brian K. Vaughn should be insulted.

I admit you’re right. Not it’s success per se. But there’s something about the fan base for this movie that gets me riled up. I despise them on a personal level. What is wrong with these people that makes them claim to like this interminable chore of a movie?
David Gordon Green once called Kevin Smith “the special olymics of filmmaking” but it’s Bay who deserves that label. He is incompetent in terms of story development, directing actors, editing, pacing and pretty much everything that qualifies as the art of cinema.
He slides by on his prowess at staging actions scenes but his skills are totally oversold. To date he has directed one (1) good action scene, it’s the car chase in bad boys two (I might begrudgingly throw in the ’sploshins in Pearl Harbor. But anyone who likes that movie is a brain ambutee).
Good action directors understand how to establish pacing, and that action scenes are still narrative story telling. Their set pieces build, they have a begining middle and end, they crescendo. They establish geography. Bay wouldn’t know how to do any of that to save his life. His skills are narrower than that. He’s good at concieving of and executing cool shots that look good in trailers. He’s still a commercial director at heart and his films work better as trailers than as movies.

Look at what JJ Abrams did with the opening to Star Trek. It’s not just people running around waving their arms wildly and yelling hysterically. He builds excitement and then turns it into suspense and then manages to tug at our heart strings. And it all works together. In that scene Abrams shows more skill as an action director than Bay ever has in his entire career.

He lacks the imagination to be a great action director. He can’t build set pieces like a real director. He just shakes the camera, lights it with a strobe light and uses quick cuts edited together randomly. Go rewatch The Rock, it’s not any better than any of PWS Anderson’s films. But you can always count on his idiotic fan base of retard frat boys to furrow their brows unintelligently and clap like trained seals “Megan Fox is hawt! What did you expect it’s an action film!”
If I hear one more of these cretins lecture me about how “It’s not supposed to be shakespear it’s an action film” I’m going to punch fanboys in their collective crotch.

If The Beef really can’t tell the difference between Yorick and Transformers kid than he’s broken his ability to tell shit from gold. And seriously, I think Brian K. Vaughn should be insulted.

In conclussion, I recommend Outlaw Vern’s three part series on Michael Bay and Transformers for the definitive critique of Michael and Transformers. If you or someone you know like Tranformers then this is a good place to start.

In part one Vern attempts to do his part for peace in Israel by watching Bad Boys II. And even includes a bonus review of Transformers The Movie (animated, Orson Wells’ last role)
http://outlawvern.com/2006/08/13/verns-peace-initiative/

In part two Vern watches Transformers (Michael Bay) and takes issue with the consensus popularity.
http://outlawvern.com/2007/07/03/transformers/

And in part three he takes a look forward to the summer 09 blockbuster roster.
http://outlawvern.com/2009/05/07/verns-2009-summer-movie-explodetacular/

And just like with Shia I have a completely inappropriate crush on him. I feel so lecherous…

He’s 23. In Retard-o-bots he’s playing a character that has just left for college. Not that I think he’s the best possible casting for Yorick but not because he’s too old.

I’ don’t know about the prospects for making a good Y movie. The story is serial in nature. Im not sure what a stand alone film would look like.

I used to think Chris Evans would be perfect for this, but since the character is supposed to be in his early twenties, then I guess both he and Shia are not eligible anymore. I can’t really think of anyone at that age who has the right look and feel for the character at this point. I think it would have to be an unknown.

Dj Caruso and some of the other names involved on the production side are pretty big right now, so I’ve no doubt this will eventually get done. It doesn’t matter so much if a big star is attached or not. The material itself carries its own weight and the folks putting it together can make it happen, so we’ll see how things go from here.

Yorick is exactly the type of role Shia should be looking for. He’s funny and charming and memorable. Comparing him to transformers kid is kind of an arogant fuck you to BKV.

I wonder if he didn’t have some falling out with DJ Caruso.