HUGH HOWEY is the New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of Wool, Shift, Dust, Beacon 23, Sand, and Machine Learning. We’ve been working toward this for a very long time, and next year is going to be huge for fans of this series.” Hugh Howey remarks: “I’m so excited to work with the top audiobook team in the business to bring the best version of these books to listeners. These new recordings narrated by master storyteller Edoardo Ballerini are sure to please both new and old fans of the trilogy.” Howey to re-release his incredible works of dystopian fiction. Josh Stanton, CEO of Blackstone, remarks: “As a huge fan of the Silo trilogy, it’s an absolute honor to be partnering with Mr. Spectrum and AMC have already confirmed renewal for a season 2. Beacon 23 is an upcoming Spectrum Originals/AMC television series, starring Lena Headey and Stephan James. Blackstone will release new recordings of the Silo novels with award-winning narrator Edoardo Ballerini in March 2023.Īdditionally, Blackstone has Howey’s acclaimed novel Beacon 23 under contract for audio, which will be re-issued with a new narration on January 10, 2023. Josh Stanton, CEO of Blackstone and Addi Wright, Blackstone Senior Acquisitions Editor, purchased the North American audio rights in a mid-six figure deal brokered by Kristin Nelson at Nelson Literary Agency, representing Hugh Howey. The trilogy will be coming soon to Apple+ as the Wool television series, starring Rebecca Ferguson. (Disclosure: Lowry’s wife works for a unit of Apple.Ashland, OR (November 29, 2022)-Blackstone Publishing has acquired the audio rights to Hugh Howey’s acclaimed New York Times bestselling Silo Saga novels, including Wool, Shift, and Dust. When Common’s smooth-talking security enforcer ominously says, “We all work for the good of the silo,” for viewers who actually do have the option of going outside, it’s reason to consider how well a plodding exercise like “Silo” really works for the good of us. The inherent mystery here, however, feels stretched to the point of strained, exacerbated by characters that don’t consistently pop. (As a footnote, the dystopian backdrop has a close cousin in “Black Knight,” a South Korean series premiering on Netflix in May, so there’s a lot of that going around.) That does foster suspense about what’s actually outside, but it doesn’t do a whole lot to propel the audience through this season, much less stoke excitement for another.īuilding this sort of elaborate world takes some time, and the inherent warnings about authoritarianism and blindly trusting the government give the series a certain real-world resonance. While the 10-episode season begins with a fair amount of momentum, featuring Rashida Jones and David Oyelowo at the outset, forward progress pretty quickly slows to a crawl. That includes rules about who gets to procreate in an effort to sustain and protect this society’s limited resources. ![]() Her investigation doesn’t sit well with the bureaucratic figures running the place (Tim Robbins and Common key among them), who clearly know more than they’re sharing with the population in an effort to keep the silo’s residents docile and manageable. Rashida Jones and David Oyelowo in the premiere episode of "Silo." Rekha Garton/Apple TV+ ![]() “We do not know who built the silo” and “We do not know when it will be safe to go outside” are part of the mantra repeated by those living in this confined space, who only know that the domicile was built more than 100 years earlier and that it’s likely certain death if they’re forced to “clean,” or venture outside into what appears to be a forbidding wasteland.īased on the book series by Hugh Howey, the series inspires comparisons to cinematic visions of a world where those in authority aren’t sharing everything with its populace, from “Soylent Green” (was that really a half-century ago?) to “Snowpiercer,” another series (after the movie) boxed in by the parameters of its premise.Īdapted by producer Graham Yost (“Justified”), “Silo” boasts an impressive cast, and exhibits a willingness to introduce and then shed major characters.Īt its core is Juliette (Rebecca Ferguson), a technical genius who keeps the silo’s life-support systems functioning, who begins asking probing and uncomfortable questions after a personal loss involving a mysterious death. Apple TV+ has taken some big sci-fi bets (see “Foundation”), but despite its provocative themes this series inspires a little too much curiosity about when and how to find the exit. “Silo” is an unfortunately apt name for a series that feels as if it’s slowly spinning in circles, set in another dystopian future where the lingering remnants of humankind grapple with how they got there and what they do next.
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