“Dark Matter” will be executive produced by Matt Tolmach (“Jumanji” franchise, “Venom,” “Future Man”) and David Manpearl for Matt Tolmach Productions. 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.

Wonder quickly turns to nightmare when he tries to return to his reality amid the multiverse of lives he could have lived. The series will follow Jason Dessen (played by 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. Hailed as one of the best sci-fi novels of the decade, “Dark Matter” is a story about the road not taken. Starring Joel Edgerton (“Obi-Wan Kenobi,” “Boy Erased,” “Loving”), who also serves as executive producer, the series will be written and showrun by Crouch, and will be produced for Apple TV+ by Sony Pictures Television.

He is determined to get back to his other life, but nefarious powers in the alternate reality conspire to stop him from revealing the criminal lengths they have gone to create the world-hopping technology.ĭark Matter was originally published in July 2016 and was selected as one of Amazon and NPR’s Best Books of the Year.Apple TV+ today announced it has landed “Dark Matter,” a new nine-episode series based on the blockbuster book by Blake Crouch. In the parallel world, he did not marry his girlfriend and they never had a son. Now a professor at a small Chicago college with a warm and loving family life, the physicist is abducted into a world in which his quantum many-worlds theory has become a fully realized technology for inter-dimensional transfer. But after a girlfriend’s unexpected pregnancy and the birth of a son, this future was derailed. Sony and Tolmach have had their sights on bringing Dark Matter to life since 2014, when it made a $1.25 million deal for the book based on Blake Crouch’s 150-page partial manuscript, according to Deadline.ĭark Matter is a science fiction thriller centering on Jason Dessen, a quantum physicist, once had a brilliant research career ahead of him. Tolmach was also a producer on the Andrew Garfield iterations of the superhero franchise, The Amazing Spider-Man in 2012 and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 in 2014. Most notably, Tolmach is an executive producer on the latest webslinging excursion from Marvel Studios, starring Tom Holland, Spider-Man: No Way Home, as well as its predecessors Spider-Man: Far from Home and Spider-Man: Homecoming. Tolmach is an executive producer on Spider-Man: No Way Home

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