Apple TV is developing a series adaptation of Hugh Howey’s dystopian novels and it’s been reported that Tim Robbins has joined the cast of the Wool TV series alongside Mission Impossible‘s Rebecca Ferguson.
The Wool TV series will 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.” Tim Robbins will star as Bernard, the head of IT for the silo, while Rebecca Ferguson will also star as Juliette, “an independent and hardworking engineer.” Graham Yost, best known as the creator of Justified 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 a possible AMC series from Into the Badlands writer and executive producer LaToya Jackson before that too was shelved.
Tim Robbins has been no stranger to television in recent years, having starred in HBO’s The Brink and Here and Now as well as the second season of Hulu’s Castle Rock. Rebecca Ferguson will next be seen starring alongside Hugh Jackman in Reminiscence, which will be released in theaters and on HBO Max on August 20th.