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Rebecca Ferguson to star in Apple TV+ series 'Wool'

Rebecca Ferguson will star in a new Apple TV+ series, "Wool."  File Photo by Oliver Contreras/UPI

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May 21 (UPI) -- Doctor Sleep, The Greatest Showman and Florence Foster Jenkins actress Rebecca Ferguson has landed the lead role of engineer Juliette in a new Apple TV+ series called Wool.

Based on Hugh Howey's trilogy of dystopian novels, the drama is being written by Justified and Band of Brothers scribe Graham Yost.

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Morten Tyldum -- whose credits include Defending Jacob and The Imitation Game -- is directing the project

"Wool is set in a ruined and toxic future where a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep," a synopsis said.

"There, men and women live in a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them."

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