The Year of Connelly continues.
Apple TV+ announced today that Academy Award winner Jennifer Connelly has joined the cast of its upcoming sci fi series Dark Matter.
Dark Matter is a highly anticipated Apple Original series and an adaption of the 2016 Blake Crouch sci-fi novel of the same name. Connelly will join Joel Edgerton who also serves as an executive producer on the project as the co lead of the series playing Daniela Edgertons wife in the series. Edgertons involvement in the series was originally announced way back in March of this year with Connellys casting being the first major news on the subject in months.
It has been quite the summer for Connelly who won the Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in 2002 for her performance in A Beautiful Mind. Connelly was most recently seen in Top Gun Maverick as Penny Benjamin, the love interest of Pete Mitchell Tom Cruise. The film has been the story of the summer because of its box office success which has been the stuff of legend grossing $1.4 billion worldwide on the way to topping both the domestic and worldwide box office by wide margins. Even more impressive is that most of this success came before the films debut on VOD last week.Considered one of the best recent sci fi novels Dark Matter follows Jason Dessen Edgerton a physicist professor and family man who is abducted into an alternate version of his life. The novel will be covered over nine episodes in the Apple TV+ series. While theres no official premiere date set for Dark Matter quite yet the cast is shaping up to be an exciting one to watch. Plus Louis Leterrier who recently took the reins from Justin Lin on Fast X will helm the series.
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