Dark Matter: Apple TV+ Series Plot, Cast and Everything We Know
A new multiverse is coming to Apple TV+. Here’s everything we know about Dark Matter. The edges of our world are blurrier than imagined. There is a multiverse, A strange and infinite place where we could find ourselves lost and try to get home. But what if we find ourselves? Dark Matter, the new series from Apple TV+, explores this concept. Based on the novel of the same name, this series is bound to make your brain crackle and keep you on the edge of your seat. Here’s everything we know about Dark Matter:
Dark Matter: The Plot
Jason Dessen is a brilliant scientist whose research has taken a back seat to the love of his life. When he married Daniela, they both put his career aside in favor of the family. One night, Jason goes to congratulate a former friend, Ryan, on winning a prestigious science award, and is kidnapped by an unknown assailant, drugged and taken to an unnamed building. After passing out, Jason wakes up in a scientific facility, undergoes a series of tests, and is welcomed home with open arms by his colleague Leighton. The problem is, he doesn’t know Leighton, he doesn’t know the place, and he doesn’t understand what’s going on. Jason’s efforts to win back his life seem futile as he begins to question if he has false memories or if this isn’t really his home. He searches for his wife and his friends, but their confusion about his whereabouts, as he has been missing for over a year, and her recounting of their past only makes matters worse. Leighton has plans.
It turns out he knows something, he’s not the ‘real’ Jason and the project that brought Jason to them left their brilliant colleague out there in the multiverse, costing him billions of dollars and causing him to lose the only person who can crack the code. of dark matter. Meanwhile, in his original reality, Jason’s initial attacker is revealed to be none other than the very bright Jason Leighton misses. He sent her other self into his reality of him, to live the life he never had with Daniela and their son. Her motivations lie in wanting that life, but Daniela begins to notice differences and soon discovers the fact that her husband is not who she appears to be.
When ‘prime’ Jason is rescued by Amanda, a psychiatrist who works at the research facility, they end up in the car that got him there in the first place. It turns out to be a sort of Schrödinger box, allowing people to enter the area between realities and exit to completely, different places existing everywhere and nowhere at the same time. The two begin to visit reality to find the original Jason, before his doppelganger completely takes over his life and wreaks havoc in his reality. However, Amanda and Jason need a specific chemical for their brains to accept the machine’s reality warping, and they only have a limited amount. It’s up to Jason to discover the machine’s secrets, what he has learned about dark matter and how it affects reality, and whether he’ll ever come home.
Dark Matter: The Cast and Crew
Dark Matter is based on Blake Crouch ‘s book of the same name. Produced and written by the author, it is also produced by Joel Edgerton, David Manpearl and Matt Tolmach (executive producer of Tom Holland ‘s Spider-Man). The nine-episode miniseries will be produced by Apple Studios and Sony Pictures Television. No word on whether it will involve a second season or if it will be standalone. The cast is full of well-known TV and film actors. Playing the lead role is Joel Edgerton (Obi-Wan Kenobi) as Jason Dessen. His wife Daniela will be played by Jennifer Connelly (Top Gun: Maverick). Jason’s colleague Leighton will be played by Dayo Okeniyi (Fresh). Jason’s partner Amanda will be played by Alice Braga (We Are Who We Are) and Jimmi Simpson (The Man Who Fell to Earth) will play Ryan, Jason’s one-time friend and brilliant counterpart.
The show promises to become the latest sci-fi series to bend people’s minds to the concept of the multiverse. Many people will already be familiar with the core concept of the MCU films, but Dark Matter will take a more scientific approach alongside its “dangerous” storyline. Edgerton and Connelly are both big stars willing to make the move to streaming, and their decision to go with Apple TV+, a service known for award-winning programming, only adds more prestige to the streamer. There’s no word on whether the series will feature surprise cameos, but the door is always open for last-minute cast announcements. Dark Matter will debut in 2023 on Apple TV+.
