Dark Matter Shows for Upgrade & Summer Frost In the Back of a Shot on Apple TV+
The weight of the moment Joel Edgerton's Jason Dessen leaves his neighborhood tavern and runs down the road after returning to his original world makes it easy to overlook the Easter Egg in the backdrop. Two of the three movies listed on the movie theater marquee are Blake Crouch novel works: Upgrade and Summer Frost. One other film on the list, It's a Wonderlife Life, is a narrative Dark Matter has been often paralleled with.
It's a Wonderful Life might thus be a placeholder for Dark Matter to keep the occasion from being too meta, but the addition of Summer Frost and Upgrade suggests Apple TV+'s next two Blake Crouch collaborations. Both stories are stand-alone adventures, hence Jason Dessen and his other Dark Matter characters are quite unlikely to appear in next Crouch source material adaptations. Still, assuming they wind being produced, the caliber of the Dark Matter TV show is encouraging for Summer Frost and Upgrade.
This Dark Matter Easter Egg Might Sign Another Blake Crouch Adaptation Coming
Dark Matter episode 7, "In the Fires of Dying Stars," includes Blake Crouch's work in an other adaption that might hint to the program. Apple TV+ is familiar territory in the sci-fi genre, hence collaborating with an author like Blake Crouch is not surprising. Dark Matter shot highly on the Apple TV+ ratings right away after its May 2024 double-episode premiere. Consequently, the platform may be seeking to build on its popularity by delving more into Crouch's past catalogue—and one shot from Dark Matter supports this concept.
Apple TV+ leverages actual scientific ideas to create its interdimensional travel, but how does Jason's "Box" fare on the show? Dark Matter Joel Edgerton portrays Jason Dessen, a husband and father who visits several worlds in search of home for his family. The mind-bending quality of the story brilliantly captures Crouch's approach, who also acts as the principal writer and showrunner of the adaptation. Though the original Dark Matter novel underwent revisions, readers of the author's work will be thrilled with the success of the show. Luckily, more onscreen adventures from Blake Crouch's imagination might not too far off.
A Summer Frost or Upgrade Adaption Could Use the Original Dark Matter Approach
Early Dark Matter prints featured Crouch thanking several people for "attempting to make Dark Matter, the movie, a reality." Eventually, the book became a TV show, which complemented the narrative more since it gave Jason more time to explore the multiverse. Should Summer Frost or Upgrade get live-action adaptations, either may be the full-length production Crouch originally intended for Dark Matter. Summer Frost would be ideal for the movie style given the book's page count is fewer than 100. Time will tell; Upgrade might develop into a TV show akin to Dark Matter.
Night Matter Apple TV+ Release Schedule Episode Number Title Apple TV+ Release Date 2024 1 Do You Currently Find Contentment in Your Life? May 8, 2 Trip of a Lifetime May 8, 3 The Box On May 15, 4 The Corridor Might 22 5 Worldless Tomorrow, May 29 Six Superposition June five seven in the flames of dead stars. June 12 8 TBC June 19 9 TBC June 26
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Dark Matter
Drawing on his own book, Blake Crouch developed Dark Matter, a science fiction drama-thriller TV show for Apple TV+. After being kidnapped and thrown into another universe, a physicist sees in the series a possible road his life may have followed. He discovers, meanwhile, that another side of himself has jeopardized the existence of his family.
Critics and spectators find the show to be really good. Given the narrative and actors, the show has created a lot of expectation. On Apple TV+, the series also become rather popular.
