Joel Edgerton to Lead Apple TV+ Multiverse Series Dark Matter

Dark Matter author Blake Crouch to serve as showrunner.

By Press Trust of India | Updated: 30 March 2022 14:04 IST

Joel Edgerton to Lead Apple TV+ Multiverse Series Dark Matter

Photo Credit: Apple, Gerhard Kassner, Crown Publishing Group

Joel Edgerton will also serve as executive producer on Dark Matter

Highlights

Dark Matter is based on author Blake Crouch's 2016 novel
The upcoming Apple TV+ show will run for nine episodes
Dark Matter's first four episodes will be directed by Louis Leterrier

Joel Edgerton is set to headline a sci-fi multiverse series at Apple TV+ based on author Blake Crouch's novel "Dark Matter".

The nine-episode Apple TV+ show has been set up with Crouch penning the script for the pilot and also serving as the showrunner.

Edgerton will star as Jason Dessen, 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.

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"Wonder quickly turns to nightmare when he tries to return to his reality amid the multiverse of lives he could have lived. In this labyrinth of mind-bending 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," the official logline read.

Louis Leterrier, best known for directing two Transporter films, The Incredible Hulk, Now You See Me and TV series Lupin, will helm the first four episodes.

Edgerton will also serve as executive producer on the series, which will be produced by Sony Pictures Television. Matt Tolmach and David Manpearl will be the other executive producers.

The actor recently starred in the critically-acclaimed Amazon Prime Video series The Underground Railroad. He will next be seen in the Star Wars series Obi-Wan Kenobi — coming May to Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar — in which he will reprise his role of Owen Lars from the galaxy far, far away.

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Dark Matter

Release Date 8 May 2024
Genre Sci-Fi, Thriller
Cast
Joel Edgerton, Jennifer Connelly, Alice Braga, Jimmi Simpson, Dayo Okeniyi, Oakes Fegley
Director
Jakob Verbruggen, Celine Held, Logan George, Roxann Dawson, Alik Sakharov
Producer
Blake Crouch, Matt Tolmach, David Manpearl, Joel Edgerton, Don Kurt, Jakob Verbruggen

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