Joel Edgerton stars as a man who isn’t sure if he’s going crazy or if there are in fact alternate realities in Apple TV+’s Dark Matter. The official trailer introduces Edgerton as a family man whose life is turned upside down when he’s kidnapped by a masked man while heading home from a bar.
Edgerton stars as Jason Dessen and Oscar-winner Jennifer Connelly plays his artist wife, Daniela. The cast of the sci-fi thriller also includes Alice Braga, Jimmi Simpson, Dayo Okeniyi, and Oakes Fegley.
Blake Crouch guides the series, based on his bestselling novel, as writer, executive producer, and showrunner. Additional executive producers include Joel Edgerton and Matt Tolmach and David Manpearl for Matt Tolmach Productions.
“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, 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,” reads Apple TV+’s synopsis. “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.”
The first two episodes of the nine-episode season will premiere on May 8, 2024. New episodes stream on Wednesdays leading up to the season finale on June 26, 2024.
