How Apple TV+’s Dark Matter’s main title became a visual puzzle for a sci-fi mystery, details revealed

Dark Matter premiered on Apple TV+ in 2024 and the mind bending series impressed the viewers and critics alike. Based on Blake Crouch’s novel by the same name, Crouch serves as the creator and showrunner of the series as well.

The official synopsis of the show, as mentioned by Rotten Tomatoes, reads,

“Jason Dessen is abducted into an alternate version of his life; to get back to his true family, he embarks on a harrowing journey to save them from the most terrifying foe imaginable: himself; based on Blake Crouch's best-selling book.”

For a series with a complicated premise like this, the main title serves an extremely important purpose as it is the first hook that would get the audience into the series. Ronnie Koff served as the main title designer and in an interview with Deadline, he mentioned how he had pitched three different ideas from which one made the cut.

Ronnie Koff designed an intriguing main title for Dark Matter

When asked about the creative process behind designing the main title for Dark Matter for Apple TV+, Ronnie Koff told Deadline,

“Well, we pitched three different concepts, totally different ideas. One was a live action approach, another one was a painterly style based on Daniela (Jennifer Connelly)’s paintings, and then the last was this abstract, crazy, mind-bending adventure. It came out of wanting to do something different and big, the idea was to express the scope of the show through the title sequence.”

He further added,

“Often the first episode of a show is the beginning, and it doesn’t open up to all the different facets and all the different world building that the show has to offer. So, in many ways, the title sequence can do that. It could introduce you to how big this is going to be in a few seconds before the show begins.”

He also talked about the abstract cube that was put together for the main title, Koff said,

“In the show, a main kind of character is the box, this catalyst or this entry point into all these different worlds. We essentially created an abstraction of that box, and the puzzle within that box expresses Jason’s complex nature of dealing with multiple versions of himself and trying to get back to his family while dealing with obstacles.”

Explaining the significance of the cube further,

“The pieces are shifting and evolving and changing, so we’re expressing his journey through the box, which is already a character in the show, we just looked at it in a slightly different way. It’s this big maze-like chessboard of ideas expressing Jason’s journey to find his family, his real family.”

The main title in Dark Matter lays the premise of the dark and intriguing concept that the show deals with. As it unfolds on screen, the visual appeal of the same is bound to get the viewers interested and once they start watching the show, the main title becomes even more significant as the abstract concepts fall into place when compared to the plot.

Dark Matter can be streamed on Apple TV+.

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