{"id":40627,"date":"2015-05-06T11:36:40","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T18:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=40627"},"modified":"2015-05-06T11:36:40","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T18:36:40","slug":"wheaton-in-dark-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2015\/05\/wheaton-in-dark-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Wheaton In Dark Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40628\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/WheatonDarkMatter050615.gif\" alt=\"WheatonDarkMatter050615\" width=\"580\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em>&#8216;s <strong>Wil Wheaton<\/strong> is working on a new show,<em> Dark Matter<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>According to Wheaton, &#8220;The basic premise of the show is: some people wake up from stasis on a space ship, and they have no memories of who they are or why they are there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><em>Dark Matter<\/em> is based on a comic book series of the same name, written by <strong>Joseph Mallozzi <\/strong>and<strong> Paul Mullie<\/strong>. <em>Dark Matter<\/em> was published in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Wheaton will play Alexander Rook, President and CEO of Dwarf Star Technologies,&#8221; said Mallozzi, co-creator of the series. &#8220;Suffice it to say, you&#8217;ll love him in the role because Wil is positively tearing it up, delivering a performance that is cool, controlled, compassionate, canny, confident, with a touch of creepiness and a dash of Angostura bitters. I was truly heartened by the fact that he clearly gave it a lot of thought prior to his arrival, crafting a charmingly nuanced character in preparation for his scenes and then positively wowing us with his take. He&#8217;s been great \u2013 and, yesterday, outright outstanding as he served up a three page scene of complex dialogue, maintaining professional focus despite the incessant interruptions of airplanes flying overhead (Yes, we were shooting by the airport).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have had an absolutely wonderful time bringing Alexander Rook to life,&#8221; said Wheaton. &#8220;In fact, yesterday was the most satisfying dramatic, on-camera acting work I&#8217;ve done in years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The thirteen one-hour episodes will debut this June on SyFy.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1TqwBlTQfTg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star Trek: The Next Generation&#8216;s Wil Wheaton is working on a new show, Dark Matter&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[8445,2452],"class_list":["post-40627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-dark-matter","tag-wheaton"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40629,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40627\/revisions\/40629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}