When we last reported on the planned adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan's fantastic comic book series Y: The Last Man, we heard that director Louis Leterrier (Clash of the Titans) may be interested in taking the helm.  MTV's Splash Page recently spoke with Leterrier about the project and he confirmed that he was interested.  However, the project is apparently mired stuck in limbo due to disagreements over how best to adapt the 60-issue comic series.  Said Leterrier,

"I still want to do it. I'm passionate about it. But it's stuck. People don't know what to do with it. I'd love to do it, but I need people to finance it, and the people financing it don't know if it's a TV show a movie, or what it should be."

Hit the jump for why Leterrier thinks Y would work best as a TV series.

For those who don't know, Y: The Last Man centers on the adventures of Yorick Brown, who is the last man on Earth after a mysterious plague wipes out every mammal with a "Y" chromosome (with the exception of Yorick's trusted pet monkey, Ampersand).

Leterrier explains why he likes the idea of Y: The Last Man as a TV show:

"You take time to get to know your characters. You can introduce a lot of characters. You don't need your three-action set pieces that you usually need for movies. Frankly, with HBO and Showtime and cable shows, the DVD box sets and all, you can have a product that doesn't make you feel like as soon as it's projected, it's thrown away. It's really a piece of art."

Perhaps the recent success of The Walking Dead will signal that there's room for a successful ongoing TV series based on a popular comic book.  As for Leterrier taking the helm, I'm still not sold on him either way, and I don't know if he's the one to make a Y: The Last Man adaptation into "a piece of art."