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The film adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan’s popular graphic novel Y: The Last Man has been in development for a decade, and four months after Vulture learned that it had become a priority at New Line, we now hear that the project finally has a director. It’s Dan Trachtenberg, a first-time feature director who made the short “No Escape,” a popular fan film of the video game, Portal.Y follows the adventures of Yorick Brown, a young escape artist who discovers that he, along with his monkey, Ampersand, may be the only males left living after a plague knocks off almost everyone with a Y chromosome. In nabbing this project on the basis of a fan film, it seems that Trachtenberg beat out the director of an actual Y: The Last Man fan film made by Captain America visual effects supervisor, Christian Cardona. It’s a fan-film-tastic fracas!

Are you a fan of the graphic novel “Y: The Last Man?”According to MTV.com, a fanmade version of “Y: The Last Man” has arisen to tide fans over until the theatrical film is created. Although there have been talks of an official film being made, fans of the graphic novel got restless, and, finally, someone made a film of their own. The fan film is made by writer/director Christian Cardona (“Captain America: The First Avenger,” “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”), and is called “Y: The Last Man Rising.” The film debuted earlier this month. Check it out below: According to MTV.com: “Y: The Last Man” was written by Brian [ Read More ]...

Hollywood has been trying to get Brian K Vaughan’s “Y: The Last Man” made for some time now, but I suspect its best chance of actually ever happening was when it had D.J. Caruso attached to direct and Shia Labeouf to star a few years back. With those two guys now gone from the project, its chances of hitting the big screen is looking less likely. It’s not like this is a known property, after all, so you need a major star (or a major director) to get it done. And if Shia and Caruso couldn’t do it when they were coming off major hits, I dunno if anyone else can. But hey, why wait for the big-screen version when you can watch a full 20-minute fanmade film of “Y: The Last Man”? Okay, so it’s not quite Hollywood moviemaking, but it’s pretty decent. “Y: The Last Man Rising...

While we wait for one of the best comicbook series of all time to come to TV, Christian Cardona took upon himself to give us something to look forward to.

The director and clearly, massive fan, of Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra’s Y: The Last Man has created a 20 minute fan film based on the comic book entitled Y: The Last Man Rising, which I’ve embedded below.

Y: The Last Man is probably my favorite comic book of all time, and it would kill me to see the comicbook butchered on TV, but The Walking Dead has given die hard fans of beloved properties hope in TV adaptations. We’ll see, but this is a good consolation prize for now.

Of all the awesome graphic novel properties that have been snapped up by Hollywood in recent years, we're really surprised that the long-planned "Y: The Last Man" adaptation has never made its way to the big screen. Sure, back in March we heard the movie had nabbed some new writers, but that's pretty much back to square one for the project.

While we wait for the feature film version of "Y: The Last Man" to slowly trudge its way through the Hollywood production cycle to the big screen, some people have stepped up to make their own short based on the hit graphic novel. Writer/director Christian Cardona's vision of "Y" — called "Y: The Last Man Rising" — made its big debut earlier this month thanks to IGN (via /Film).

Check it out after the break!

Sure, this version isn’t as polished as the final theatrical version likely will be,...

Y The Last Man Rising Short Film. Christian Cardona‘s Y: The Last Man Rising (2012) short film stars Kent King, Travis Quentin Young, Rebecca Marshall, Vida Guerra, and Traci Dinwiddie. Y: The Last Man Rising‘s plot synopsis: “Based on one of the most critically acclaimed comics of all time. A mysterious plague has wiped out all men on the planet, [...]

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Since a big-budget studio adaptation of Y: The Last Man is still in limbo (New Line holds the rights, but the project has been stalled in development for years), we’ll have to make do with this impressive fan film from Christian Cardona and imagine what might be if New Line could ever get the real version off the ground. If it’s anything like this short, we hope the studio steps things up and gets this in theaters sooner rather than later. Film School Rejects has shared Cardona’s fan video with the masses – a 17-minute long retelling of the first few issues of the popular comic that appeared on DC’s Vertigo imprint from 2002 through 2008. Brain Vaughn and Pia Guerra’s “maxi-series” follows a young man named Yorick in the aftermath...

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As we've been waiting for a big screen adaptation of Y: The Last Man filmmaker Christian Cardona has made an impressive looking fan-made film called Y: The Last Man Rising. Here's the synopsis that was released...

Based on one of the most critically acclaimed comics of all time. A mysterious plague has wiped out all men on the planet, and women are left to pick up the pieces of society. The only surviving man is Yorick, an amateur escape artist who is the key to the continual survival of the human race. Special Agent 355 is tasked to protect his life at all costs. Luckily, she's really good at her job...

With a little more work and money this thing could make for a great feature film! Watch the fan film and tell us if you thought it was good or not!

An adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra's Y: The Last Man has been gestating for years now. Shia Labeouf was once attached to the project and director D.J. Caruso was going to take a stab at the film, but it never came to fruition. Just recently TV producers-turned-writers Matthew Federman and Stephen Scaia were hired to do a new script for the adaptation, but who knows how that's going to turn out. In the meantime, how about we take a look at an impressive attempt by filmmaker Christian Cardona who decided to make a 23-minute fan film based on the comic book just because he loves it so much. Watch it! Here's Christian Cardona's fan film adaptation of Y: The Last Man via IGN: As IGN describes the video they unleashed online: Adapting some of the earliest portions of Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra's hit Vertigo Comics series,...

Based on one of the most critically acclaimed comics of all time. A mysterious plague has wiped out all men on the planet, and women are left to pick up the pieces of society. The only surviving man is Yorick, an amateur escape artist who is the key to the continual survival of the human race. Special Agent 355 is tasked to protect his life at all costs. Luckily, she's really good at her job... IGN and Drake 1129 Productions are proud to present this new short film, made by super fans of the comic. It covers the initial plague that kills any mammal with a Y chromosome (except Yorick and his trusty monkey companion, Ampersand) and an awesome fight between Agent 355 and a fanatical group of Amazons. Directed and Written by Christian Cardona Produced by Kent King and Christian Cardona Yorick as Travis Quentin Young Agent 355 as Kent King Hero as...

"The Adventures of Tintin" dominated the nominations but it was "Rango" that received the most trophies at the 10th Visual Effects Society (Ves) awards. Stan Lee received the the Lifetime Achievement Award and visual effects pioneer Douglas Trumbull received the George Melies Award. Patton Oswalt hosted the event held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Antonion Banderas, Lou Ferrigno, director Chris Miller, Marc Webb, and Jennifer Yuh Nelson presented awards. But the surprise appearance by Martin Scorsese was the highlight of the evening.

Here's the full list of winners (highlighted) and nominees of the 10th Annual Ves Awards, to visit our Awards Avenue coverage of other award-giving bodies, winners and nominees, click here:

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Feature Motion Picture

Captain America: The First Avenger

Charlie Noble

Mark Soper

Christopher Townsend

Edson Williams

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2

Tim Burke

Emma Norton

John Richardson

David Vickery...

Michael Bay's Transformers: Dark of the Moon Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Feature Motion Picture Captain America: The First Avenger Charlie Noble Mark Soper Christopher Townsend Edson Williams Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 Tim Burke Emma Norton John Richardson David Vickery Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Gary Brozenich David Conley Charlie Gibson Ben Snow Rise of the Planet of the Apes Dan Lemmon Joe Letteri Cyndi Ochs Kurt Williams Transformers: Dark of the Moon Scott Benza Wayne Billheimer Matthew Butler Scott Farrar Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Feature Motion Picture Anonymous Andre Cantarel Volker Engel Rony Soussan Marc Weigert Hugo Ben Grossmann Alex Henning Rob Legato Karen Murphy Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows Laya Armian Chas Jarrett Seth Maury Sirio Quintavalle Source Code Annie Godin Louis Morin War Horse Duncan Burbidge Ben Morris Mike Mulholland Chris Zeh Outstanding Visual...

The visual effects that we are seeing in movies these days are absolutely mind blowing. At this point it doesn't seem like there's any excuse for a film to have bad visual effects unless the people hired lack talent, or the studio is keeping the cash in their pockets.

There's a lot of good nomination this year such as Captain America, Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean 4, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, and Transformers: Dark of the Moon. Out of all of these I think that Planet of the Apes might take home the top prize, those apes were incredibly freaky looking. Weta did an amazing job with this movie, and out of all the other nominations this was the movie I was most impressed by. What are your thoughts? What movie did you think have the best visual effect in 2011?

Here's the full press release with all of the nominations:

Los Angeles,...

The Visual Effects Society (Ves) today announced the nominees for its 10th Annual Ves Awards ceremony recognizing outstanding visual effects artistry in 23 categories of film, animation, television, commercials, special venues and video games. Nominees were chosen Saturday, January 7 by distinguished panels of Ves members who viewed submissions at the FotoKem screening facilities in Burbank and New York, FotoKem's Spy in San Francisco, and other facilities in London, Sydney, Vancouver and Wellington, Nz.

"The standard of the creative work that is being considered this year is unbelievably high across all categories," said Jeffrey A. Okun, Chair of the Visual Effects Society. "The judges faced a huge challenge because all of the work was so far above the norm. We're honored to have the opportunity to focus the spotlight on the outstanding work that has contributed to some of the highest grossing films and broadcast projects of all time."

As previously announced,...

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hollywoodnews.com: Over the weekend, the Visual Effects Society announced the nominees for its 10th Annual Ves Awards ceremony, recognizing summer tentpoles (“Harry Potter,” “Captain America”) and surprise hits (“Rise of the Planet of the Apes,” “Hugo”) for their outstanding visual effects artistry in 23 categories of film, animation, television, commercials, special venues and video games.

“The standard of the creative work that is being considered this year is unbelievably high across all categories,” said Jeffrey A. Okun, Chair of the Visual Effects Society. “The judges faced a huge challenge because all of the work was so far above the norm. We’re honored to have the opportunity to focus the spotlight on the outstanding work that has contributed to some of the highest grossing films and broadcast projects of all time.”

As previously announced, Stan Lee will be honored with the Ves 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award and...