Rebecca Ferguson will play in the Apple Sci-Fi Show Wool

For nearly a decade, Hugh Howey's SF Wool Dystopia novel was in development, first as a feature film on 20th Century Fox with Ridley Scott and Steve Zaillian attached to production and then as an AMC series from LaToya Morgan. Apple has since come to the rescue and taken over the long gestation project, which will now star Rebecca Ferguson of Mission Impossible Fame.

Apple has given Wool a series order and the show will draw from Howey's best-selling trilogy of post-apocalyptic novels. Other books in the Silo series, as it is known, include Exchange and Dust, but there are also some short stories and a graphic novel, as seen below. Although Wool started as an online sensation, Howey sold nearly half a million copies on paper in the United States alone, in addition to about 2 million e-books.

The story takes place in a ruined future in which toxic air has forced a community to live in a huge underground silo, deep in hundreds of stories. There, men and women live in a society full of regulations that I believe are meant to protect. Ferguson will play Juliette, an independent engineer and worker.

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