Joel Edgerton & Jennifer Connelly in Sci-Fi Series ‘Dark Matter’ Trailer
by Alex Billington
April 11, 2024
Source: YouTube
“What if the person that abducted me is me?” Apple TV has unveiled the first official trailer for their next new sci-fi series titled Dark Matter, adapted from the acclaimed book of the same name by Blake Crouch. Crouch (who also created the series “Good Behavior”) is adapting and showrunning this new series, which is about a physicist who is kidnapped and sent to a parallel universe where another version of his life unfolds because of a different choice he made years previously. The story draws on the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics which posits that every possible outcome of every decision creates a new universe or world that runs parallel to our own. Joel Edgerton stars as a man abducted into an alternate version of his life. Amid the mind-bending landscape of lives he could’ve lived, he embarks on a harrowing journey to get back to his true family and save them from a most terrifying foe: himself. Also starring Jennifer Connelly, Alice Braga, Jimmi Simpson, Dayo Okeniyi, & Amanda Brugel. This kind of reminds me of Richard Ayoade’s The Double. Yet another multiverse sci-fi concept, with some extra emotional twists. Check it out.
Here’s the first official trailer (+ poster) for Apple TV+’s series Dark Matter, direct from YouTube:
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. Dark Matter is a series created and showrun by author Blake Crouch, who also created & wrote the series “Wayward Pines” & “Good Behavior”. Writing by Couch, Jacquelyn Ben-Zekry, Megan McDonnell, Ihuoma Ofordire. Adapted from Couch’s book of the same name published in 2016. Featuring episodes directed by Jakob Verbruggen, Celine Held, Logan George, Roxann Dawson, & Alik Sakharov. It’s executive produced by Blake Crouch, Matt Tolmach, David Manpearl, Don Kurt, Jakob Verbruggen, & Joel Edgerton. Apple will debut Dark Matter streaming on Apple TV+ starting May 8th, 2024 coming soon. Who’s interested? Look good?