Oscar-winner Jennifer Connelly (A Beautiful Mind, Top Gun: Maverick) has joined the cast of the Apple TV+ sci-fi series Dark Matter, in which she will star opposite Joel Edgerton (The Great Gatsby, Boy Erased). The series is an adaptation of the Blake Crouch novel. Crouch is adapting the story for the screen, and will also serve as executive producer and showrunner. Edgerton also executive produces. Matt Tolmach and David Manpearl of Matt Tolmach Productions executive produce, with Jakob Verbruggen set to direct the first three episodes.
The series “will follow Jason Dessen (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. 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.”
Connelly will star as Daniela, Jason’s wife.
Crouch’s works have previously been adapted for television. His Wayward Pines trilogy of novels was adapted into the Fox drama series Wayward Pines, while his novel Good Behavior was adapted into a series of the same name for TNT.
via: Variety