Rashida Jones, David Oyelowo Join ‘Wool’ Series Adaptation at Apple

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Rashida Jones and David Oyelowo are joining the cast of the Apple series adaptation of Hugh Howey’s “Wool” novels, Variety has learned. The pair joins previously announced cast me…

The pair joins previously announced cast members Rebecca Ferguson and Tim Robbins. “Wool” is a 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.

Oyelowo will star as Holston, the Silo’s sheriff. Jones will play Allison, his wife who also works in IT for the Silo. News of Oyleowo’s casting comes shortly after it was announced he and his Yoruba Saxon production bannerwith ViacomCBS and MTV Entertainment. Under that deal, Oyelowo is attached to star in and executive produce a series about legendary Old West lawman Bass Reeves. He recently made his directorial debut with the feature “The Water Man,” in which he also starred alongside Lonnie Chavis and Rosario Dawson.

“Wool” was originally a standalone short story released online. After the first self-published story became an online sensation, Howey then published a series of stories continuing the journey in subsequent books in what became the “Silo” series: “Wool,” “Shift,” and “Dust.”

 

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