Rebecca Ferguson to star in Apple TV’s adaptation of dystopian novel Wool

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

Rebecca Ferguson, Wool, Hugh Howey, Apple TV

Another dystopian series is on the way as AppleTV+ have ordered an adaptation of Hugh Howey's Wool series from writer Graham Yost and director Morten Tyldum. Rebecca Ferguson has also signed on to star in the series as well as serve as executive producer.

Based upon the dystopian novels by Howey, Wool takes place "in a ruined and toxic future where a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep. There, men and women live in a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them." Rebecca Ferguson will play Juliette, "an independent and hardworking engineer." Graham Yost, best known as the creator of Justified and who is also working on Apple's Masters of the Air World War II series, will pen the new series, with The Imitation Game and Defending Jacob director Morten Tyldum helming. The duo will also executive produce alongside Rebecca Ferguson and Hugh Howey. At one point, Ridley Scott and Steve Zaillian were set to produce Wool as a feature film for 20th Century Fox, but the project fell through and was later resurrected as an possible AMC series from Into the Badlands writer and executive producer LaToya Jackson before that to was shelved.

Rebecca Ferguson is currently filming Mission: Impossible 7 alongside Tom Cruise, where she has reprised her role of Ilsa Faust, but will next be seen starring with Hugh Jackson in Lisa Joy's sci-fi thriller Reminiscence. The film will debut in theaters and on HBO Max on August 20, 2021. Ferguson will also be seen in Denis Villeneuve's Dune, which is set to hit theaters and HBO Max on October 2, 2021.

Source: Deadline

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