For a while it appeared that the big screen adaptation of “Y: The Last Man” was moving forward after Dan Trachtenberg was named director. However, author Brain K. Vaughan came out today and told Comic Book Resources that the film rights to the comic book could soon revert to himself and co-creator Pia Guerra if production on the feature doesn’t begin soon.

“It’s my understanding that the rights to ‘Y: The Last Man’ will revert back to co-creator Pia Guerra and me for the first time in a decade if the planned New Line adaptation doesn’t start shooting in the next few months,” Vaughan said. “So I expect there will be some ‘Y’ news in 2014 either way.”

“Y: The Last Man” has been eyed for a film adaptation since 2002, and almost since the comic series first appeared. Since then the film project has gone through many different hands with most recent iteration featuring a screenplay by Matthew Federman and Stephen Scaia.

The dystopian tale follows Yorick Brown, a young man who, along with his Capuchin monkey, Ampersand, somehow survives a catastrophic event that kills off every living creature with a Y chromosome. Left in a world of only women, Yorick teams with a government operative, 355, to try to uncover the truth about the plague and why he and he alone made it through alive.

Although set against an enormously scaled post-apocalyptic backdrop, the 60-issue series primarily serves as an exploration of modern gender politics and is, at its heart, an intimate coming-of-age drama.