It seems to tickle Graham Yost when people refer to Silo as a sci-fi drama. Though the Apple series is as high-concept as it gets—the adaptation of Hugh Howey’s novels is about a futuristic community that exists in a massive underground vault with 144 floors — there are no spaceships in Silo.
And there are certainly no lasers. “It’s not science heavy,” says Yost, the clever mind behind FX’s Justified, who created the Rebecca Ferguson starrer for the streamer. “For me, it’s fantasy, it’s whatever.
It’s alternate reality, all that stuff. But the key is to make it feel real and lived-in. I mean honestly, if you pick at the science too much, it falls apart.” Several studios tried to pick apart Howey’s tomes before Silo finally became a small-screen reality.
After Howey self-published Wool, the first book in his dystopian series in 2011, 20th Century Fox snatched up the rights with Ridley Scott and Steven Zaillian attached to produce.
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