‘Dark Matter’ Creator On Where Jason Ended Up In Finale & Why This Wasn’t An Ongoing Series: “A Little Bit Of Alternate Worlds Goes A Long Way”
deadline.comSPOILER ALERT! This story contains plot points from the Apple TV limited series Dark Matter. Dark Matter, the sci-fi starring Joel Edgerton as a physicist and family man who is abducted into an alternate version of his life, ended its nine-episode run June 26.
Here, author Blake Crouch — who wrote the book that the limited series is based on — talks about the challenge of adapting his 2016 novel for the streamer and why he thinks it’s better was a limited series that stars Joel Edgerton as Jason Dessen and Jennifer Connelly as his wife Daniela. DEADLINE Before we delve into the finale, can you address why it took so long to get this to the small screen?
The book was first optioned in 2014. BLAKE CROUCH It was optioned as a film. It kind of spun around in film development until 2019.
So for about five years, drafts of feature adaptations were written. I wrote one, a couple other guys came in and did passes, but we could really never get the script beyond a B.
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