Right when you thought Apple TV+ had enough remarkable projects on their upcoming slate to fill their content slots for the next few years, think again. Rebecca Ferguson has now been tapped to star in an Apple TV+ series adaptation of Hugh Howey’s dystopian future novel “Wool.”
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Originally published online as a standalone short story, “Wool” tells the story of a climate-corrupted future. A society of people live underground in a deep, vertically arranged silo, and they organize themselves according to a highly regulated way of life to preserve their safety. After author Hugh Howey received mass acclaim for his short story, he pivoted towards publishing, subsequently releasing two more books titled “Shift” and “Dust.” Together with “Wool,” the trilogy is now known as the “Silo” series.
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Graham Yost, showrunner of Apple’s “Masters of the Air” and “Justified,” who also wrote on the first season of “The Mandalorian,” is slated to write and executive produce the series for Apple TV+. Rebecca Ferguson is also executive producing and starring in the leading role as Juliette, a modest and industrious community engineer. Hugh Howey himself, alongside Remi Aubuchon, Nina Jack, and Ingrid Escajeda, round out the team of showrunners.
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Ferguson is best known for her work opposite Tom Cruise in the “Mission: Impossible” series, as well as standout performances in “Florence Foster Jenkins,” “The Greatest Showman,” and “Doctor Sleep” (I mean, who could forget that top hat!). She will appear in Denis Villeneuve’s highly anticipated “Dune” later this year.
Writer-producer Graham Yost is being kept quite busy at Apple TV+ right now. In addition to “Wool,” he is also co-writing and co-executive producing “Masters of the Air,” a WWII drama series overseen by Steven Spielberg and Amblin, as well as serving as EP on the Gary Oldman-led spy series “Slow Horses.”
At large, Apple TV+ continues to collect a staggeringly impressive slate of projects in both film and television. Announcements from just the last couple months showcase series starring Natalie Portman and Lupita Nyong’o (“Lady in the Lake”); Tom Holland (“The Crowded Room”); Zac Efron, Bill Murray, and Russell Crowe (“The Greatest Beer Run”); Maya Rudolph (a comedy series from creators Alan Yang and Matt Hubbard); amongst many others.
Their film slate is just as impressive, boasting the Tom Hanks-led “Finch,” the Sundance stunner “Coda,” Ethan Coen’s “Macbeth,” and Martin Scorsese’s upcoming western-thriller “Killers of the Flower Moon” – to name a few.
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