Another day , another setback forFX ’s atomic number 39 : The Last Man adaptation .
Colliderreported andthe Hollywood Reporterconfirmed that lead actor Barry Keoghan ( Dunkirk)—who’d been cast as Yorick Brown , the titular last man — is parting ways with the production months aftershooting the pilot that head to the series being greenlit . Showrunner Eliza Clark is still impound to oversee the adjustment of Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra ’s Vertigo mirthful and is said to already be in the appendage of recasting Yorick , a necessary move given the quality ’s importance to the story .
THR had no word on why Keoghan was exiting the project but he is set to feature inMarvel ’s The Eternals(as Druig ) , which is presently wrapping up filming for a November firing . Actors provide project all the time , and there ’s a opportunity that Y will be capable to ramp yield back up once FX has found a new Yorick . But given just how many reversal there have been in the overall process of bring in a springy - legal action adaptation of the beloved comic book to realisation , you ca n’t help but wonder whether FX is in the end plump to be capable to pull this off .
Yorick expressing himself.Image: Goran Parlov, Jose Marzan Jr. Clem Robins, Zylonol (Vertigo)
The series was originally place to launching this twelvemonth and will still star Diane Lane , Imogen Poots , Lashana Lynch , Juliana Canfield , Marin Ireland , and Amber Tamblyn . We ’ll bring you more as we know it .
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