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Emmy Winning VFX Wizards Behind ‘WandaVision’ & ‘Umbrella Academy’ Tackle ‘Y The Last Man’ Next

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The VFX team who helped brought their A game to  Disney+’ WandaVision and Netflix’s Umbrella Academy will tackle another highbrow comic book property this fall with Y The Last Man on FX on Hulu.

Monsters Aliens Robots Zombies (MARZ) is a tech company and VFX studio that focuses exclusively on premium TV. Past projects include WandaVision, Watchmen, The Umbrella Academy, Siren, What We Do in the Shadows, and The Expanse. MARZ was recognized at the 2020 Visual Effects Society (VES) awards with nominations for work on Netflix’s Living With Yourself and HBO’s Watchmen.

MARZ  was nominated for two Emmys earlier this year for WandaVision and The Umbrella Academy. They crafted the Vision’s Paul Bettany’s head frame by frame in VFX using a mix of AI and top international talent to produce their amazing visuals. See before and after shots here.

The 2021 Emmy nominations include Outstanding Special Visual Effects In A Single Episode – 2021 The Umbrella Academy nominated, episode 743, Ryan Freer – VFX Supervisor (MARZ).

Outstanding Special Visual Effects In A Season Or A Movie – 2021 WandaVision, Ryan Freer – Visual Effects Supervisor.

New productions in the works include the final season of Walking Dead and the aforementioned Y: The Last Man.

Anticipation for the long gestating project goes back to the 2008 final issue of the original comic book series published by DC/Vertigo Comics.

Created by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra, Y the show will tell the tale of a post-apocalyptic world in which a cataclysmic event decimates every mammal with a Y chromosome but for one cisgender man and his pet monkey. The series follows the survivors in this new world as they struggle with their efforts to restore what was lost and the opportunity to build something better.

According to Comic Book: The journey to get Y: The Last Man adapted into something beyond the comic has been a mostly fruitless one for many years. From 2007 to 2014 saw various film versions in the works with director D. J. Caruso (Eagle Eye) reuniting with his Disturbia star Shia LaBeouf for one attempt. 10 Cloverfield Lane director Dan Trachtenberg was also attached at one point as well. In 2015 however FX announced they were developing a small-screen version of the project which would have its own trials and tribulations along the way including changing showrunner and changing lead actors. Production on the series was also shut down in March of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but resumed filming in October of last year.

 

The series stars Ben Schnetzer as Yorick Brown, Diane lane as Congresswoman Jennifer Brown, Ashley Romans as Agent 355, Diana Bang as Dr. Allison Mann, Olivia Thirlby as Hero Brown, Juliana Canfield as Beth DeVille, Marin Ireland as Nora Brady, Amber Tamblyn as Kimberly Cunningham, Elliot Fletcher as Sam Jordan, and Paul Gross as the US president.

All episodes of the season will be directed by women and the production has a significant number of female department heads, including both DPs, the production designer, costume designer, casting director, editors, stunt coordinator, and more. Eliza Clark serves as showrunner and executive producer along with Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson of Color Force, Mari Jo Winkler-Ioffreda, Louise Friedberg, Brian K. Vaughan, and Melina Matsoukas. Nellie Reed serves as Producer.

Y: The Last Man is produced by FX Productions and premieres on FX on Hulu on Monday, September 13th.

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