Joe Otterson TV ReporterRashida 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 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 banner had signed a TV overall deal with ViacomCBS and MTV.
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