Morten Tyldum (‘Silo’ director and producer): In the sci-fi mystery drama, ‘humanity doesn’t really matter, it is the silo that endures’ [Exclusive Video Interview]
“If you see the opening title, you see just echoes of people,” explains Morten Tyldum about the mystery that imbues every level of the behemoth silo structure that sustains thousands of human beings in a post-apocalyptic world. For our recent webchat he adds, “you see these are ghostly people walking around, and that is the idea that humanity doesn’t really matter, it is the silo that endures.” Watch our exclusive video interview above.
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In “Silo,” the last 10,000 people on Earth are living in a gargantuan concrete silo a mile underground, supposedly keeping them safe from the destroyed and dangerous post-apocalyptic world outside. No one knows when or why the silo was built and anyone who asks too many questions gets in serious trouble. When engineer Juliette (Rebecca Ferguson) begins investigating the murder of a loved one, she uncovers a subterranean mystery that goes deeper than she ever could have imagined.
The sci-fi drama was created by Emmy-nominated showrunner Graham Yost (“The Pacific”), based on a bestselling novel trilogy by Hugh Howey , with Oscar nominee Tyldum (“The Imitation Game”) directing the first three episodes. The series stars Ferguson (who also executive produces) alongside Common, Chinaza Uche, Avi Nash, Oscar winner Tim Robbins (“Mystic River”) and Emmy nominees Harriet Walter (Succession,” “Ted Lasso”), David Oyelowo (“Nightingale”) and Rashida Jones (“Hot Girls Wanted”). The series’ ten-episode freshman season concluded last June on Apple TV+, with the streamer having already announced a second season, which is currently in production.
“It’s something we discussed a lot,” Tyldum reveals about one of the central themes of the show: that information and knowledge is power, particularly in a society that is uninformed and misinformed. “It shows how vulnerable you are when you don’t have history. And unfortunately, that is something that we see happen a lot now,” he explains. “So, what does that do to you? And how easy is it to manipulate and control people when you take away history?” he asks, adding further that the people living in this underground isolated world only know about 140 years of their history. “They don’t know what happened before those 140 years, but this is a 300 year old city in the ground.”
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