Film Music Reporter

Herdís Stefánsdóttir (The Sun Is Also a Star, We’re Here, South Mountain) has signed on to score the upcoming FX on Hulu original series Y: The Last Man. The show is based on the DC Comics/Vertigo book series of the same title by Brian K. Vaughan & Pia Guerra and stars Diane Lane, Ben Schnetzer, Ashley Romans, Olivia Thirlby, Juliana Canfield, Marin Ireland, Amber Tamblyn and Elliot Fletcher. The drama is set in a post-apocalyptic world, in which a cataclysmic event decimates every mammal with a Y chromosome with the exception of a cisgender man and his pet monkey and 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. Eliza Clark (Animal Kingdom) serves as the showrunner and is also producing the project with Vaughan (Runaways, Under the Dome), Nina Jacobson & Brad Simpson (American Crime Story, Crazy Rich Asians), Mari Jo Winkler-Ioffreda, as well as Melina Matsoukas (Queen & Slim, Insecure) who is also directing mutiple episodes. Y: The Last Man is expected to premiere this year on FX on Hulu.