Jennifer Connelly Boards Dark Matter Sci-Fi Adaptation at Apple TV+

Hot off Top Gun: Maverick‘s (ongoing) blockbuster performance and with TNT’s Snowpiercer due to finally pull into the station, Jennifer Connelly has joined the cast of Apple TV+’s adaption of Dark Matter.

Based on the the 2016 sci-fi novel by Blake Crouch (and not to be confused with the three-season Syfy series!), Dark Matter is described as “a story about the road not taken.” It follows Jason Dessen (played by Obi-Wan Kenobi‘s Joel Edgerton, who is also an executive producer on the series), 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 Jason tries to return to his reality amid the multiverse of lives he could have lived,” says the nine-episode series’ official synopsis. “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: Scarlet Witch  himself.”

Connelly is set to play Daniela, Jason’s wife.

Dark Matter author Crouch will write and serve as showrunner on the series, and executive-produce alongside Matt Tolmach  (of the Jumanji franchise and Venom) and David Manpearl. Jakob Verbruggen (Invasion, The Alienist) is set to direct the first three episodes.

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