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Dark Matter is a sci-fi thriller series based on the blockbuster book by acclaimed, bestselling author Blake Crouch. The nine-episode series features an ensemble cast that includes Joel Edgerton, Jennifer Connelly, Alice Braga, Jimmi Simpson, Dayo Okeniyi and Oakes Fegley.
Hailed as one of the best sci-fi novels of the decade, Dark Matter is a story about the road not taken. The series will follow Jason Dessen (played by Joel Edgerton), a physicist, professor and family man who — one night while walking home on the streets of Chicago — is abducted into an alternate version of his life. Wonder quickly turns to nightmare when he tries to return to his reality amid the mind-bending landscape of lives he could have lived. In this labyrinth of realities, he embarks on a harrowing journey to get back to his true family and save them from the most terrifying, unbeatable foe imaginable: himself.
Crouch serves as executive producer, showrunner, and writer alongside executive producers Matt Tolmach and David Manpearl for Matt Tolmach Productions, and Joel Edgerton. Dark Matter is produced for Apple TV+ by Sony Pictures Television.
Dark Matter is a sci-fi thriller series based on the blockbuster book by acclaimed, bestselling author Blake Crouch. The nine-episode series features an ensemble cast that includes Joel Edgerton, Jennifer Connelly, Alice Braga, Jimmi Simpson, Dayo Okeniyi and Oakes Fegley.
Hailed as one of the best sci-fi novels of the decade, Dark Matter is a story about the road not taken. The series will follow Jason Dessen (played by Joel Edgerton), a physicist, professor and family man who — one night while walking home on the streets of Chicago — is abducted into an alternate version of his life. Wonder quickly turns to nightmare when he tries to return to his reality amid the mind-bending landscape of lives he could have lived. In this labyrinth of realities, he embarks on a harrowing journey to get back to his true family and save them from the most terrifying, unbeatable foe imaginable: himself.
Crouch serves as executive producer, showrunner, and writer alongside executive producers Matt Tolmach and David Manpearl for Matt Tolmach Productions, and Joel Edgerton. Dark Matter is produced for Apple TV+ by Sony Pictures Television.
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00:00I
00:03Need to go home
00:06You are home
00:07What's the last thing you remember before waking up in the hangar? I was at a bar
00:11Do you remember how you got the cuts and bruises on your face? Yeah, someone hit me
00:17The word Jason
00:20Charlie where's Daniela?
00:23Everything has changed. Maybe it's like some kind of multi-tiered deepfake punking. I'm not crazy
00:30I
00:33Want my family and I just want to go home
00:40There is something really inherently human about wondering
00:43What if if you had access to go back to a juncture, would you make a different choice?
00:49It's a kind of intriguing thing to imagine
00:52Dark matter is the story of Jason Dessen who's a physicist a scientist
00:58He's chosen to be a father and a husband at the expense of a big career and one night all of a sudden he's abducted
01:09And when he wakes up things are just a little bit different he is
01:14literally in another world
01:17And all he wants is to get home crazy theory
01:21What if the person that abducted me is a version of me?
01:26I'm in his world and he's in mine. You know this man who's taking him from his life
01:31It's a version of him that didn't have the family
01:34What if you walk into a world that doesn't belong to you?
01:36But you're addicted to it because it's the world that has everything that you wanted in life
01:40And it really is just about a person trying to get their family back
01:44He gets thrown into the multiverse and has to travel through it to ultimately come home
01:51I'm getting you
01:57The
02:00Box is a contraption it is a portal each door is a possibility of a life of a path not taken
02:07What does it lead we just keep walking
02:11This is a challenge. I've never had playing different versions of the same character things that I loved in the book
02:17I loved in the script
02:18Which is so dynamic and picturesque as soon as I read the book was like how we're gonna do this
02:23How we're gonna show these ash world or a snow world or water world
02:34I love the kind of classic story at the center of this very fantastical world
02:47You wouldn't believe me if I told you
02:53You