‘Y: The Last Man’ Is Back In Development… As A Series This Time!

by BigyanksOctober 14, 2015

YES! This is exactly how it should have been from the beginning, and the timing couldn’t have been better with the slew of great comic book properties getting the TV treatment (and doing it well at that). This was one of the top comic properties that I have always wanted to see come to life, and ever since that fan film come out a couple of years ago that yearning became stronger.

New Line originally acquired rights for a film adaptation back in 2007 with David Goyer, Carl Ellsworth and director D.J. Caruso attached. Caruso departed the film after New Line decided to take the film in a different direction, taking it from a three-film franchise to a stand-alone movie. Thus putting the movie into development hell. New Line’s plans were then scrapped, and the rights for the property have since reverted back to Vaughan.

Well FX has stepped into heed the call and picked up the rights for ‘Y:The Last Man’ and develop it into a TV series. This will be the second comic property for the studio who is currently producing Guillermo Del Toro’s “The Strain”. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Vaughan and Color Force’s Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson will develop the comic as an ongoing television series.

I believe this property has the chance to give AMC’s The Walking Dead a run for its money and its dominance if The Preacher doesn’t do it first. There are way more likable characters and you don’t find yourself wanting to root against the protagonists. Plus you have the lovable Ampersand who will truly become a fan favorite.

Image Expo Announces New Projects from Vaughan, Snyder, Lemire and More!

by KarsonJanuary 9, 2015

Thanks to Image we already have TONS of new (and renewed) comic books to look forward to in 2015!

Image Expo, the first major comic book event of the year, held at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts took place January 8, 2015. The keynote revealed a slew of creator-owned projects set to launch this year. Highlights include new books from Scott Snyder (Wytches, Batman), Skottie Young (Fortunately, the Milk, Rocket Raccoon, Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz) and Jeff Lemire (Trillium, Sweet Tooth).

See below for all the announcements!

AD: AFTER DEATH

W: Scott Snyder (Wytches, Batman), A: Jeff Lemire (Trillium, Sweet Tooth)

AD: AFTER DEATH will be set in a near future where death has been cured and one man must come to grips with what comes next.

AD: AFTER DEATH will launch in November 2015.

BLACK ROAD

W: Brian Wood (Star Wars, DMZ, Northlanders), A: Garry Brown (The Massive, Iron Patriot), Lauren Affe

Set in Viking Age Norway, BLACK ROAD follows Magnus The Black, a fixer for the Christian Church who loses a Roman official to bandits on the infamous Black Road. Heading north to fix the problem and complete his contract, he uncovers a secret, something so big it threatens to change the balance of power in all of Europe. But with one foot in the world of the pagans and the other in that of the Church, who can trust where his loyalties lie?

BLACK ROAD will launch in September 2015.

I HATE FAIRYLAND

W: Skottie Young (Fortunately, the Milk, Rocket Raccoon, Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz) A: Skottie Young, Jean-Francois Beaulieu (Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz)

Gertrude is a snarky, slightly deranged 40-year-old with a battle axe who happens to be trapped in a Shirley Temple-esque body and confined to the technicolor funworld that is Fairyland. I HATE FAIRYLAND is an all-new series full of morbid, dark humor and snark—perfect for fans of Invader Zim and Fight Club.

I HATE FAIRYLAND will launch in Fall 2015.

ISLAND & 8HOUSE

Emma Ríos & Brandon Graham

Making a rare U.S. appearance for Image Expo this year, comics creator Emma Ríos officially announced three upcoming projects. ISLAND and 8HOUSE, both collaborations with Brandon Graham, are due in 2015.

ISLAND, a collaboration spearheaded by Ríos and Graham and featuring a murderer’s row of the most interesting artists in comics, will be an oversized 72-page monthly magazine, scheduled for June 2015.

KAPTARA

W: Chip Zdarsky (Sex Criminals, Howard the Duck) A: Kagan McLeod (Infinite Kung-fu)

KAPTARA follows Keith Kanga, a young bio-engineer flung across the universe onto a strange planet filled with weird danger. And if he doesn’t get home then Earth—the place where YOU live—is DOOMED!

KAPTARA will launch in 2015.

THE LUDOCRATS

Kieron Gillen (The Wicked + The Divine, Phonogram), David Lafuente (Ultimate Comics: Spider-man), Jim Rossignol, Ricardo Venancio

“The Ludocrats is a decade-in-the-making opulent fantastical comedy,” said writer of THE WICKED + THE DIVINE and PHONOGRAM, Kieron Gillen, “This is a book which has hyperbole as its baseline, and considers the impossible as an aim only fitting for underachievers. It’ll change your life. Primarily by letting you own a comic called The Ludocrats, where BARON OTTO VON SUBERTAN and PROFESSOR HADES ZERO-K are the last defenders of a ludicrous aristocracy against the insipid forces of normalisation.”

THE LUDOCRATS will launch in Summer 2015.

MONSTRESS

W: Marjorie Liu (X-Men, Tiger Eye) A: Sana Takeda (Ms. Marvel)

In MONSTRESS, readers are transported into the early 1900s, where immense Leviathans roam the Earth, wielding unimaginable powers that many have long desired to exploit. When a teenage girl with a mysterious past forms a tenuous psychic bond with the most dangerous of all the Leviathans, she becomes the target of both human and otherworldly authorities who will stop at nothing to possess her—to control her, and control the Lord of the all the Leviathans. What they don’t count on is the courage of the girl herself—and the fact that she is slowly becoming more than human…

MONSTRESS will launch in 2015.

NO MERCY

W: Alex de Campi (Smoke/Ashes, Grindhouse), A: Carla Speed McNeil (Finder), Jenn Manley Lee (Dicebox)

It was just a trip, before college. Build schools in a Central American village; get to know some of the other freshmen. What could go wrong? After tragedy strikes, these once-privileged American teens must find their way home in a cruel landscape that at best doesn’t like them, and at worst actively wants to kill them. No phones. No passports. No mercy.

NO MERCY will launch in Spring 2015.

PAPER GIRLS

W: Brian K. Vaughan (Saga, Runaways), A: Cliff Chiang (Wonder Woman)

PAPER GIRLS is the story of four 12-year-old newspaper delivery girls who experience something extraordinary one day…

PAPER GIRLS will launch in 2015.

PHONOGRAM

W: Kieron Gillen (The Wicked + The Divine, Young Avengers), A: Jamie McKelvie (The Wicked + The Divine, Young Avengers)

Emily Aster’s the hyper-acerbic cover-queen whose one liners are sharper than her fringe; she’s been the one people love and love to quote. In this new chapter of the PHONOGRAM series, readers discover how she got that way, and where it got her. She sold half her personality for power. This is what happens when that faustian deal catches up with her, and what that half her personality has been doing all these years.

PHONOGRAM will launch in 2015.

PLUTONA

W: Jeff Lemire, A: Emi Lenox, Jordie Bellaire

PLUTONA follows the story of five suburban kids who make a shocking discovery while exploring the woods one day after school… the body of the world’s greatest super hero, Polara, laying dead among the mud and grass.

PLUTONA will launch in 2015.

PRETTY DEADLY

W: Kelly Sue DeConnick (Bitch Planet, Captain Marvel), A: Emma Ríos (Pretty Deadly)

In this second story arc of PRETTY DEADLY, the mantle of Death has fallen to a little girl, Sissy, who, along with her tattered band of reapers, is tasked with gathering souls whose time has come, or come and passed. An old woman has a dying request. Her son has been missing for more than a year, gone east, and from there to fight in the trenches overseas. She wants to see the boy one last time before she passes. And so Deathface Ginny is dispatched through clouds of mustard gas to find the young man, but between her and her quarry, atop bitter black mount of twenty hands, sits the Reaper of War himself.

PRETTY DEADLY will launch in September 2015.

REVENGEANCE

Darwyn Cooke

REVENGEANCE is a psychological thriller with darkly humorous overtones. When Joe Malarky is faced with a criminal tragedy, he sets out to make things right on his own. What follows is Joe’s odyssey through the underside of the city and the madness that seems to drive his crazy world.

REVENGEANCE will launch in June 2015.

RUN LOVE KILL
Eric Canete (The End League, Iron Man: Enter the Mandarin), Jon Tsuei (Comic Book Tattoo), Leonardo Olea, Manu Fernandez
The story follows a wanted woman in hiding named Rain Oshiro. The narrative style will prominently feature two very different but significantly connected moments throughout her life: “The Past”—which will explore her history as an impressionable student, an abiding soldier, and a wanted fugitive; and “The Present”—which will show her as she is now and how she copes with (and runs away from) the decisions made in her past. At its core, the story is an exploration of choices—both good and bad. And now, how her choices have formed her into the person she has and will become. Set against a background of a futuristic world as only artist Canete can imagine, Rain has just 24 hours to escape a barricaded city while trying to evade a military force determined to either capture or kill her.
RUN LOVE KILL will launch Spring 2015.

SAVIOR
W: Todd McFarlane, Brian Holguin (SPAWN, Mr. Majestic), A: Clayton Crain (X-Force)
A man appears with no background, no memory, and no place to call home. But this much is clear—this individual possesses certain powers, abilities that harken from the Old Testament… Could he possibly be this corrupted world’s SAVIOR in the flesh? Or will he be the world’s undoing?
SAVIOR will launch in April 2015.

SONS OF THE DEVIL
Brian Buccellato and Toni Infante
SONS OF THE DEVIL is a dark look at a blue collar 25-year-old orphan who learns he is the son of a cult leader. Like True Detective and The Following, SONS OF THE DEVIL is an exploration into the dark side of human psychology. It’s a grounded take on cults that balances the real world with the supernatural.

STARVE
Brian Wood (Star Wars, DMZ, The Massive), Danijel Zezelj (Northlanders, Loveless), & Dave Stewart (The Walking Dead, Star Wars)
STARVE is set in a world where chefs are practically royalty, and access to them is the ultimate status symbol. Chef Gavin Cruikshank, back from self-imposed exile, finds his little foodie television program “Starve” transformed into a gonzo arena sport where chefs slice and dice rare and endangered species for their super-rich patrons. Since his personal life is as much a shambles as his professional career, Chef Cruikshank works to repair his relationship with his grown daughter while dismantling the monstrosity that Starve has become.

TADAIMA
Emi Lenox (EMITOWN)
Throughout childhood, Emi visited her Grandmother in Japan frequently. But through the years of high school and after, she hadn’t been back in nearly twelve years. Sadly, within those twelve years, both her Japanese grandparents passed away. TADAIMA is a travelogue documenting a trip back to Japan with her mother for a memorial service to renew the sobota, a wooden grave marker, at her grandparents’ tomb in Fukushima. Touching on Japanese spirituality and cultural differences, TADAIMA is more than a book about landmarks and foreign cuisine. It’s about family.

WE STAND ON GUARD
W: Brian K. Vaughan (Saga, Ex Machina), A: Steve Skroce (Doc Frankenstein, storyboard artist for The Matrix and Jupiter Ascending)
WE STAND ON GUARD is an action-packed, military thriller set in the 22nd century. The series follows a heroic band of Canadian civilians-turned-freedom fighters who take up arms against a violent invasion of their country by a technologically superior nation: the United States of America.

HEAVEN
James Robinson (The Saviors) and Phillip Tan (Spawn, Uncanny X-Men)
HEAVEN introduces readers to a distant future where the forces or man and alien combined have used religion to conquer this universe and are now ready, about to invade the next one — Heaven itself. The “Good War” between man and angel will span galaxies and dimensions, building to a final conflict that threatens to negate all of reality itself. Along the way many players on both sides of the war will be featured; soldiers, spies and politicians all with different goals and agendas even as their two distinct and differing realities explode around them.

Oofta! There you have it. What are titles are you excited for in 2015? Let us know in the comments below!

‘Under The Dome’ Renewed For Second Season

by Derek KraneveldtJuly 29, 2013

Briefly: CBS drama Under the Dome has just been renewed for a second season.

The series, based on the novel by Stephen King and adapted by Brian K. Vaughan, has proved to be one of this Summer’s most popular new shows. Under the Dome currently averages over 13-million viewers per week, fantastic numbers for any series, let alone a show that’s dropped in quality with each subsequent episode.

Stephen King himself has been tapped to writer the second season premiere, but is that enough to save the series? I’m watching Under the Dome weekly, but can’t help but feel like almost nothing has happened since the dome dropped all those weeks ago. The show is cheesy, seems cheaply produced, and though I’m likely invested enough to sit through the rest of the first season, unless things drastically improve in the next few weeks, I can definitely see myself dropping out before next year’s premiere.

What do you think of the news? More importantly, what do you think of the show? Are you a fan, or watching just because? Sound out below!

Source: Deadline

New Stills Released For ‘Under The Dome’

by Derek KraneveldtJune 5, 2013

This is going to be a fantastic month. Between Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us, Man of Steel, Dexter, The Killing, and of course Under the Dome, I have no idea where I’m going to find the time to get anything done… and I couldn’t be more excited.

Brian K. Vaughan’s adaptation of Stephen King’s Under the Dome premieres in just a few weeks, and CBS has released a cool batch of images to excite you for it. The images are a mixture of stills from the pilot episode and production photos, and while they reveal little about the series, they still look damn fine.

Take a look at the images below, and let us know if you’re excited for the series! A full-length trailer was released a few weeks back, and should serve to further excite you if you haven’t seen it. Under the Dome premieres on June 24th.

Source: Seriable

‘Under The Dome’ Gets A Full Length Trailer!

by Derek KraneveldtMay 16, 2013

We’re barely a month away from the premiere of Under the Dome, and CBS has just released the series’ first full-length trailer. The new preview introduces us to the town of Chester’s Mill and its inhabitants, and certainly alludes at the town having some deep, dark secrets.

I’m excited for Under the Dome. I’m into anything with Brian K. Vaughan’s name on it (you’re reading Saga, right?), and this project is no different. Watch the new trailer below, and let us know if you’re looking forward to it. Under the Dome premieres on June 24th!

‘Under The Dome’ Premieres June 24th, Watch A New Preview!

by Derek KraneveldtMay 6, 2013

June is going to be a fantastic month. First, we have Man of Steel and Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us releasing on the same day (June 14th). One week later, Pixar’s Monsters University will hit theatres, and just 72 hours after that, Brian K. Vaughan’s TV adaptation of Under The Dome will premiere on CBS.

The series looks great, and I’m immediately invested in anything with Vaughan’s name on it. Previous promos have been insanely effective, and this newly released preview is no different. Check it out below, and let us know what you think!

Will you be watching the show? Were you a fan of the novel? Again, Under The Dome hits CBS on June 24th!

Watch An Emotional New Promo For ‘Under The Dome’

by Derek KraneveldtApril 8, 2013

Last night we showed you a neat new preview for the anticipated television adaptation of Under the Dome. That preview focussed on the dome coming down, and told us to essentially ‘Say Goodbye’ to the outside world. A new promo has just been released, this time showcasing just how heartbreaking this new world can be.

Watch the new preview below, and let us know what you think! Under the Dome looks fantastic, and will premiere this June on CBS!

Watch A New Preview For Stephen King’s ‘Under The Dome’

by Derek KraneveldtApril 7, 2013

Following last week’s first look at the wildly anticipated series, CBS today released a new preview for Brian K. Vaughan’s adaptation of Under the Dome. First published in 2009, Stephen King’s Under the Dome takes the plot of 2007’s The Simpsons Movie, and makes it real and scary.

Based solely on the fact that Vaughan is handling the adaptation (and also the fact that the plot sounds pretty damn cool), I can’t wait for this one to premiere. Brian K. Vaughan not only wrote my favourite comic series ever (Y: The Last Man), but also penned some of the best episodes of Lost, and his current books, Saga and Private Eye, are both incredible pieces of literature (and art) themselves.

Watch Under the Dome‘s new preview below, and let us know what you think! The show is set to premiere this Summer!

On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester’s Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener’s hand is severed as “the dome” comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when—or if—it will go away.

Dale Barbara, Iraq vet and now a short-order cook, finds himself teamed with a few intrepid citizens—town newspaper owner Julia Shumway, a physician’s assistant at the hospital, a selectwoman, and three brave kids. Against them stands Big Jim Rennie, a politician who will stop at nothing—even murder—to hold the reins of power, and his son, who is keeping a horrible secret in a dark pantry. But their main adversary is the Dome itself. Because time isn’t just short. It’s running out.

Brian K Vaughan and Marcos Martin Launch ‘The Private Eye’, A Pay-What-You-Want Sci-Fi Detective Story

by Derek KraneveldtMarch 19, 2013

Is this the future of digital comics?

Just yesterday, teaser images from a mysterious new Brian K Vaughan and Marcos Martin project began to make their way around the ‘net. Each image featured a beautiful art panel, typically with a ‘social media’ related word underneath. At that point, nobody had any idea what the project was called, a single detail about it, or just what the pair had in store for us.

Today, the duo launched the project in an intriguing and amazing way. The first 32-page issue of The Private Eye is available now; digital only, DRM free, and pay-what-you-want.

Here’s a description of The Private Eye, straight from its official website:

It’s a detective story set in 2076, when everyone in the United States has a secret identity. Our protagonist is a member of the paparazzi, outlaw private investigators who dig up the kind of personal dirt no longer readily available through search engines. It’s a mystery with lots of masks, but no superpowers. We know how the story ends, and we think it will take about 10 issues to get there.

This distribution format is an extremely interesting idea. By offering the title exclusively through their own website, they’re able to bypass any fees charged by Apple, Amazon, ComiXology, or anyone of the sort. On top of that, the pay-what-you-want model opens the book up to the masses of comic fans that simply think it’s unfair to pay $2.99 or $3.99 for a digital file, especially when a print copy would cost exactly the same. Don’t think $2.99 is right? Pay less! The site suggests a simple $.99, which is beyond fair in my opinion. The funds raised help ensure the book will continue to be made, as The Private Eye will take about 10 issues to finish its story.

Check out a few preview pages from the book below, and head over to Panel Syndicate to download a copy for yourself. You can download the file, DRM free, in PDF, CBR, and CBZ formats.

If you’re a print fan, don’t hold your breath on this one. According to the site’s FAQ, “we don’t currently have plans for THE PRIVATE EYE to ever appear in print. We still love paper comics, especially the retailers who sell them, but this is something different.”

Y: The Last Man Now A Priority At New Line

by Derek KraneveldtSeptember 10, 2012

This is some exciting stuff.

Since its inception, Y: The Last Man has been atop my list of must read and favorite titles. Brian K Vaughan’s beautifully woven, intensely realistic tale of the last man on Earth is brilliant. I’ve passed the paperbacks on to countless people, who each too have fallen in love with it, and I find myself going back to it at least once a year. The haunting last few issues still resonate with me like few other books can.

For almost as long as the title has existed, a film adaptation has been in the works. The project jumped around from pre-production to shelved and back over the years until it looked as though it was coming from DJ Caruso (Disturbia, Eagle Eye, I Am Number Four), with Shia Labeouf set to play main character Yorick.

Thankfully (in my opinion) this never happened, and the project was shelved again. Little news was heard again about the project until now. Vulture has reported that Y: The Last Man is now one of New Line Cinema’s top priorities. The studio was apparently impressed with a draft from former Jericho scribes Matthew Federman and Stephen Scaia, and is now in search for a director.

Who would you like to see directing? Who do you want to see as Yorick? I used to think Ryan Reynolds or Anton Yelchin would be great for the role, though they may have aged out of it at this point. In any case, I’m excited!

Read Brian K Vaughan’s Saga #1 For FREE!

by Derek KraneveldtAugust 25, 2012

Five months since launch. Six issues in. I’m enamored with these characters. I’m in love with this world. I’ll buy every issue until its sweet, sweet conclusion.

If you haven’t taken the plunge with Vaughan’s latest, here’s an awesome opportunity. All you need is an iOS or Android device and a copy of ComiXology.

Again, Brian K Vaughan (Y: The Last Man, Ex Machina, Runaways, Lost) spins an elegant, action-packed, gripping tale of love, loss, war, philosophy, and so much more.

This has also been my first taste of artist Fiona Staples, whose insanely vibrant, unbelievably beautiful art is just as evocative as Brian’s work, if not more so. I want more, constantly. I’d cover my walls with it if I could.

There isn’t much more to say. It’s an amazing book, and you can get into it for free right now. But get on it! I’m sure it won’t last long!

Download it now on Comixology!

Geekscape Comics: Preview For ‘Saga #4’

by Scott AlminianaJune 15, 2012

Brain K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples’ Saga is still in its infancy but it’s already one of the best things to hit stands in quite sometime. Each issue has been crazier than that last and issue #4 looks to continue that trend. Courtesy of CBR, we’ve present you with a preview of the latest issue. If you’re not reading Saga you should be. Issue #4 hits stands on June 20th.

New Line Pulls Y: The Last Man Movie Out Of Development Hell; Hires New Writers

by Eric DiazMarch 14, 2012

Last week, we gave your our ideal casting for the movie. Now, it looks like the movie adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra’s Y: The Last M isn’t as dead as everyone thought. The Hollywood Reporter just announced that New Line Cinema has hired the duo of Matthew Federman and Stephen Scaia to write an adaptation of the acclaimed Vertigo comic book series. Both Federman and Scaia were writer/producers on genre shows like Human Target, Warehouse 13 and Jericho. New Line has been trying to get this made for awhile now; Director DJ Caruso was attached a few years back, with Shia LaBeouf attached to star, but nothing ever came of it. Also attached at one point was The Incredible Hulk and Clash of the Titans director Louis Letterier, but that went nowhere twice as fast as Caruso’s take.

As described in the original article, Y: The Last Man centers on Yorick, an “escape artist who is the last survivor of a mysterious plague that has killed every male mammal in the world. With his pet monkey, he sets out to find what might have wiped out the world’s male chromosomes.” The series of graphic novels are widely considered some of the best of the past decade, but are also very dense and hard to condense into a two hour narrative, or even a trilogy. Anyone else think this is better suited to be adapted Walking Dead style, on cable television? Just throwing it out there

Geekscape Casts The ‘Y: The Last Man’ Movie

by Matt BlackwoodMarch 5, 2012

New Line Cinema has had the film rights to Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra’s beloved comic series Y: The Last Man for over 4 years. But despite a script by Vaughan and reported interest from multiple directors, the project has remained in limbo. I can’t tell you if the movie will ever get made, but I can tell you who we would like to see in it!

ADAM BRODY as YORICK BROWN

Yorick Brown is an everyman. Literally. As the lone survivor of the complete elimination of Earth’s males, Yorick is every man left on the planet. So who can capture the dorky charm of the verbose slacker magician faced with the saving the world?

How about Adam Brody, who played loveable nerd trying to find his masculine identity on 6 seasons of The OC? The reliable actor proved he can carry an entire movie as the star of 2007’s aptly titled In the Land of Women.

TRACIE THOMS as AGENT 355

The woman known only as 355 becomes the most important woman in the world when she is tasked with shepherding the last man across the country. Tracie Thoms blew us away as sassy stuntwoman and protective pal Kim in Quentin Tarantino’s grindhouse homage Death Proof. She has the hardness and the heart to play Yorick’s enigmatic bodyguard and constant companion.

LUCY LIU as DR. ALISON MANN

Lucy Liu may not actually be of Sino-Japanese heritage like cloning expert Mann, but she has been playing women of the doctor’s intelligence and strength with effortless grace for years. She also played a bit of a lunatic in the indie rom-com Watching the Detectives, which means she has the experience to play Mann’s more obsessive side.

AMY ACKER as HERO BROWN

Yorick’s wayward sister Hero has her own journey to parallel Yorick’s and must be played by someone who can be both wounded and warlike, both hero and villain. Amy Acker has the talent to capture Hero’s dual nature; she has played characters who have gone through instant and extreme transformations in both Angel and Dollhouse.

SARAH ROEMER as BETH DEVILLE

Would-be fiance Beth doesn’t appear much in Yorick’s story, but she does provide much of his motivation. Fired Up‘s Sarah Roemer has the effusive spirit and classic good looks to make an audience fall in love with her in a short amount of screen time.

BRITTANY SNOW as BETH 2

One of the few friendly faces Yorick meets along the way, the other Beth both shelters and tempts the last man. Showing a large range over a short career in films such as The Pacifier and The Vicious Kind, Brittany Snow has been both as vulnerable and as tough as survivor Beth.

GINA BELLMAN as ALTER TSE’ELON

Israeli commando Alter leads a squad sent to abduct the last man, but is it for her own personal motives? She is a complex and compelling villain. Every role Gina Bellman takes is a challenge, from the lunatic Jane in Coupling to gender-switching Sydney in Zerophilia. The versatile actress isn’t from Israel, but she is good with accents, as evidenced in her portrayal of grifter Sophie on TNT’s Leverage.

CRYSTAL THE MONKEY as AMPERSAND

It may seem an odd choice to cast a female to play one of the only two remaining males on the planet, but capuchin Crystal is definitely up for the challenge. The animal actress is quickly turning into a major star of the big and small screen, with major roles in Night at the Museum and The Hangover 2 and a recurring stint on Community.

As always, that’s just one fan’s opinion. Let Geekscape know what YOU think in the comments!