Apple signs order for new world-building drama 'Wool'

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Apple TV+ has announced a series order for "Wool," based on Hugh Howey's best-selling post-apocalyptic science fiction series, "Silo."

Image Credit: Apple, Hugh C. Howey

Set in a ruined and toxic future, "Wool" is a world-building drama that explores a society living in a giant underground silo, hundreds of stories deep.

Rebecca Ferguson ("Dune," "Mission: Impossible,") will star as Juliette, an independent and hardworking engineer coping with living in a society full of regulations.

"Wool" is based on Hugh Howey's New York Times bestselling trilogy of dystopian novels. The series will be written by Emmy-nominated screenwriter Graham Yost ("Band of Brothers," "Justified") and directed by Academy Award nominee Morten Tyldum ("Defending Jacob," "The Imitation Game.")

"Wool" joins other upcoming sci-fi titles on Apple TV+, such as the yet-unnamed sci-fi comedy-drama series produced by and starring Andy Samberg.

Apple TV+ had an estimated 40 million subscribers at the end of 2020, according to a recent report. Analysts at JP Morgan believe the fledgling streaming service could hit 100 million subscribers by 2025.

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Rayz2016

Cannot wait to see how this turns out on screen. 

entropys

I like me a bit of post apocalypse world building stories, a lot. But to be honest I couldn’t get into these novels. I have them on kindle, might give them another try.

lkrupp

I’m tired of authors and stories that portray no future for the human race and the Earth. Every story or series thing these days is set in a post apocalyptic wasteland. It all started with the anti-nuclear monster movies of the 1950s, through Mad Max in 1979, and continuing today with Zombies and climate disaster movies like The Day After Tomorrow and Geostorm. Even H.G. Well’s Time Machine is a downer for the future. 

entropys

Whhaaaat? You don’t like mad Max?

What can I say?

Two men enter; one man leaves!

Seriously though, the best bit of these post apocalyptic stories is how quickly out of date they get, as the world never seems to end when they said, and the cause de jour regularly changes to the latest scare.

bageljoey

entropys said:

I like me a bit of post apocalypse world building stories, a lot. But to be honest I couldn’t get into these novels. I have them on kindle, might give them another try.

I actually enjoyed them a fair bit.  Worth another try, I would say…

bageljoey

(Although I’m not sure how they will translate to the screen!)

bageljoey

entropys said:

Seriously though, the best bit of these post apocalyptic stories is how quickly out of date they get, as the world never seems to end when they said, and the cause de jour regularly changes to the latest scare.

Or maybe you are totally missing what is happening!  Maybe these stories have such a profound effect that the future they predicted doesn’t happen precisely BECAUSE they warn us and cause us to change course¡

Seriously though, I’m not sure the authors/screen writers ever claimed to see the future. Maybe it was enough that they were translating society’s fears into something that could be digested—thus the “cause de jour” and the “latest scare” are exactly what they are examining…

entropys

Or, maybe they actually happened and we are in a simulation on Steve Jobs’ MacBook?

and he isn’t dead.

jbilgihan

lkrupp said:

I’m tired of authors and stories that portray no future for the human race and the Earth. Every story or series thing these days is set in a post apocalyptic wasteland. It all started with the anti-nuclear monster movies of the 1950s, through Mad Max in 1979, and continuing today with Zombies and climate disaster movies like The Day After Tomorrow and Geostorm. Even H.G. Well’s Time Machine is a downer for the future. 

At one point these authors thought we would annihilate ourselves with Nuclear Weapons or Climate change.  No one but Mike Judge had the imagination to figure out how it would really happen - Idiocracy.