FX Series 'Y: The Last Man' Just Lost Their Main Actor, Delaying Show Further

The FX series “Y: The Last Man,” based on the popular comic book series, has been delayed yet again after the leading actor, Barry Keoghan, has left the series. The series is currently looking to recast the show as soon as they can.

As to why Keoghan is departing from the FX series has not yet been confirmed, Collider reports. The 27-year-old actor is, however, currently busy with the Marvel Cinematic Universe film “The Eternals,” another comic book adaptation in which he plays Druig.

“Y: The Last Man” follows Yorick Brown (formerly Keoghan) as a male amateur escape artist with a pet monkey, Ampersand, who is to be played by a real monkey on set, following an apocalyptic event that wipes out all men on Earth -- leaving behind the women, untouched by the mysterious disease. But even more mysterious are the circumstances as to why Yorick and Ampersand both survived the pandemic. The series would explore all 60 issues of the famous comic book series penned by Brian K. Vaughan.

The series has remained in development for the last 10 years, starting off with a movie adaptation that never made it to fruition, according to Screen Rant. They scrapped the idea in favor of a TV show when they found showrunners Aïda Mashaka Croal and Michael Green. Croal and Green eventually left the project because of “creative differences,” delaying the show for some time.

Eliza Clark then took over as showrunner, according to Screen Rant. After “devouring” the contents of each book, she cast an almost all-female cast of Imogen Poots, Diane Lane, Amber Tamblyn, and Lashana Lynch. Lane has been cast as a U.S. senator that also happens to be Yorick’s mother.

Despite setbacks, “Y: The Last Man” hasn’t changed its release window as of press time, which is an unspecified time in 2020.