Apple’s ‘Wool’ Adds Tim Robbins To Dystopian Series From ‘Justified’ Showrunner
Apple TV+continues to lure more talent, withTim Robbinssigning on to co-star oppositeRebecca Fergusonin the dystopian dramaWool, based on the first installment inHugh Howey’s post-apocalyptic sci-fi book series,Silo.
According toThe Hollywood Reporter,Wool"is set 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."
Robbins will play Bernard, the community’s IT head, while Ferguson will play Juliette, “an independent and hardworking engineer.” Ferguson was already confirmed to starback in MaywhenWoolreceived a direct-to-series order of 10 episodes.
Graham Yost, who developedJustifiedfor FX, will serve as showrunner here.Morten Tyldum, the Oscar-nominated helmer ofThe Imitation Gameand Apple’sDefending Jacob, will direct.
Wool Sees AMC Moving Off-Network
Interestingly, THR mentions thatAMC Studiosis producingWool, “marking a key off-network sale for the studio arm of the basic cable network and part of its push to increase revenues by becoming a content supplier to third-party outlets.” AMC Networks already has its own streaming service (at this point, who doesn’t) but last month, it finally settled the long-shamblingWalking Deadlawsuitthat filmmaker Frank Darabont had brought against it — to the tune of $200 million, no less.
It’s somewhat strange to hear that AMC is now outsourcing shows to other streamers instead of putting them on AMC+ or the AMC TV channel. Maybe the money they owe Darabont is a factor, or maybe $200 million is a drop in the bucket for them and this is all just part of their normal business strategy.
Whatever the case, Robbins won an Academy Award forMystic River,and though he wasn’t nominated forThe Shawshank Redemption(which Darabont directed), we all know that isone of the greatest movies of all time. He was last seen onscreen inDark Watersand in the second and final season of Hulu’sill-fatedCastle Rock.
Ferguson also joined the Stephen King screen multiverse inDoctor Sleep, and she’s kept busy the last few years with other notable projects likeMission: Impossible – Fallout,Reminiscence(out this week), and Denis Villeneuve’s upcomingDune. InWool, she’ll be starring in an adaptation of a novel that started out as a short story from Howey, a self-published Kindle author who is now abestselling writer, not to mention an executive producer for this new Apple series.
