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The Lightbulb Moment That Altered ‘Dark Matter’ from Book to Screen

Star's suggestion to add family tragedy elevated sci-fi thriller's emotional depths

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In adapting the mind-bending sci-fi thriller novel “Dark Matter” for television, the creative team made one pivotal change that profoundly reshaped the story’s emotional core. The gut-wrenching addition didn’t come from the book’s author Blake Crouch, but rather the show’s lead actor Joel Edgerton in what Crouch calls a “lightbulb moment.”

As originally conceived in Crouch’s novel, the character of Jason Dessen is a scientist obsessively trying to reunite with his wife Daniela and son Charlie after being ripped from his reality into an alternate universe. However, in the Apple TV+ series adaptation, Jason’s family dynamic takes on darker shades when it’s revealed he had twin sons – with one, Max, tragically passing away as an infant.

“It was an idea that Joel had,” reveals Crouch. “He said, ‘I think it would be so much more powerful if Jason wants to get back to his family, even in spite of some pretty intense trauma in that family’s history.'”

Edgerton’s inspired note completely recontextualized Jason’s mission. Rather than simply returning to a perfect life, his motivation becomes rejoining his surviving wife and son in the wake of unimaginable grief over losing a child.

“It was one of those lightbulb moments,” Crouch expresses. “It didn’t just affect one thing, it affects the whole middle part and end of the show and gave it a depth it wouldn’t have had otherwise.”

The devastating loss humanizes Jason’s plight. His relentless determination to restore his original reality is driven by an appreciation for what remains of his family after tragedy, not just an idyllic alternate existence.

It also casts Jason’s alternate “Dark Matter” counterpart, a version who avoided that pain, in a more menacing light through the contrasting lenses of paternal love and profound selfishness.

What could have simply been a high-concept sci-fi premise about parallel universes is grounded in far richer emotional substance – all sparked by Edgerton’s insightful vision for his character’s backstory.

From the actor’s “brilliant note” emerged a more layered exploration of choices, grief, and what defines a perfect world beyond the theoretical. A paradigm-shifting suggestion that took “Dark Matter” to powerful new depths.

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