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And, yeah — he’s a little salty about that second season, too.
“Wayward Pines was the first time I’d ever walked onto a film set. I was a starry-eyed, 32, and looking at the first thing of mine being adapted. I thought it was goign to be amazing and great, and a lot of it was,” Crouch told ComicBook. “Filmmaking can be tumultuous and there’s a lot of that there. It was an extreme scenario. I’m super proud of season 1 of Wayward Pines. We should have stopped there….But it taught me so much. It was like, filmmaking is a full-contact sport and I was lucky to be let in and actually see how the sausage gets made, and that’s not something that a lot of novelists are made privy to. It took me a while to recover from that and decide, ‘Do I want to have a part of that in something of mine?’ And finally when the opportunity for Dark Matter came up, I decided yeah I do, but I’ve also learned a lot from it. I know the things I don’t want, and I know the things I do want to shoot for.”
He added that while he has some regrets about the way Wayward Pines went, he seems to see it as a net positive experience — or at least one where he and others learned a lot.
“A lot of friends — the Duffer Brothers came up on Wayward Pines, I came up on Wayward Pines, a lot of directors there,” Crouch said. “We call it ‘Wayward Pines University,’ because that’s where a lot of us were thrown into this crazy, amazing situation, and we learned, and took things from it that allowed us to go to the next step. A lot of people came out of Wayward Pines and have gone on to do amazing things.”
Below, you can check out the official synopsis for Dark Matter:
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.
Dark Matter premieres globally with the first two episodes on Wednesday, May 8, 2024 followed by one new episode weekly through June 26, 2024.
