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Clash of the Titans remake helmer Louis Leterrier has revealed that he wants to make Y: The Last Man as either a trilogy of movies or a TV series. "I'm surprised that it hasn't gotten made yet," Leterrier told MTV. "The first time I read it, I was in France and doing my little movies, and I didn't think I would ever have access to these kinds of movies. Midway through Clash of the Titans, I was like, 'What's going on with Y The Last Man?' I called one of the producers and asked what was going on, and he said it was available. I said, 'Let's go!'"

So if Leterrier wants to do it, what's the hold up in getting the ball rolling? "It's kind of stuck somewhere now," he answered. "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."

Leterrier has ideas for either direction the project takes as it heads toward a live-action adaptation. "It could play as a movie, but it would be very interesting as a TV show," he said. "[It wouldn't work as] one large film, no. I'd love to do it as a TV show or a three-part series."

And then the MTV reporter asked him to explain his idea of a Y TV show. "I like the idea of 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."