If you’ve never read Brian K. Vaughn’s comic series Y: The Last Man, you’re really missing out. It’s very well written and has enjoyed tremendous popularity.

So much so, in fact, that it’s one of the reasons Vaughn ended up as a writer for ABC’s LOST for several seasons. Now, it looks like Vaughn’s TV writing career is going to continue.

According to Deadline, he has been signed to write Showtime’s drama series adaptation of Stephen King’s 2009 novel Under the Dome, from DreamWorks Television. According to the report, Vaughn was chosen after a long search by the show’s producers and will begin writing the adaptation immediately.

In case you’re not familier with the story, the supernatural thriller concerns locals at a Maine vacation spot who battle one another when a force field suddenly surrounds their town and cuts them off from the rest of the world. Yes, it takes place in Maine. Try to contain your surprise.

To be honest, this is not my favorite Stephen King novels. However, Vaughn is one of my favorite writers so hopefully he will bring his trademark wit and style to the project. The series expects to begin filming early next year for a debut sometime next Fall.

This week on The Flickcast Chris and Matt are joined by John Carle and they launch into a whole new batch of topics including “Black Friday” sales success, recently released and upcoming video games like Assassins Creed 2, Left for Dead 2, Dragon Age and the massive success of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

The guys also discuss the infamous “French Airport” level in COD: MW2, video game movie tie-ins, the Rocky and Rambo franchises, Christmas action movies, comics related movies like Batman Forever, the greatness of Rob Marshall’s Nine, Deadpool movie possibilities and more.

The guys also made some great picks this week including John’s pick of the comic book series Y: The Last Man, Matt’s pick of Rocky on Blu-ray and Chris’ pick of 1971′s martial arts action film with a conscience Billy Jack, co-written, directed by and starring Tom Laughlin.

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Almost two years ago, it was announced the D.J. Caruso would direct and Carl Ellsworth would write a big screen adaptation of Brian K. Vaughn and Pia Guerra’s celebrated comic Y: The Last Man. Since that time and pretty much immediately, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen star Shia LaBeouf’s name has been associated with the film and speculation had been that he was in talks to take on the lead role of Yorick Brown, the “last man” of the title who survived a plague that wiped out all other men.

But now, according to an interview with Wizard Magazine, you can take LaBeouf’s name off the list of potential Yoricks. Why? Well, according to the interview, the star feels that the character is too similar to the one he’s played in both Transformers movies: Sam Witwicky.

“You take Sam and you put a monkey on his shoulder,” said LaBeouf in the interview of Yorick’s simian sidekick Ampersand. “I don’t know if it’s that big a differential. It seems like he’s the ordinary guy in an extraordinary situation again.

He added, “I’m not willing to make that movie currently, and may be too old to play the role by the time it does come around.” So, now that LaBeouf is apparently out of the picture, who will take on the role of “the last man?” Well, to throw out a couple names just for fun, how about someone like Topher Grace or Adam Brody? They might work.