The science fiction adventure series Dark Matter will one day return to our screens, if co-creator Joseph Mallozzi has his way. He reiterated in a post at his blog this week that he wants to revive the show, which only got to tell three years of its 5-year planned storyline.
Mallozzi has been rewatching and discussing the show every Monday with fans at the Orville Nation. The conversation over the final episode is set for this Monday, July 5. Other special guests have dropped in for these conversations, from visual effects supervisor Lawren Bancroft-Wilson to actors Anthony Lemke (“Three”), Marc Bendavid (“One”), and Mike Dopud (“Arax Nero”), directors Martin Wood and Ron Murphy, and more.
A revival of the series only needs a broadcast or streaming home ready to fund a new production.
“Just finished the Dark Matter season 3 finale – and I’m angry all over again,” Mallozzi wrote this week. “I’m going to start working on a pitch for the miniseries and will look to take it out in August. I’ll keep you posted.”
Prior to Dark Matter Mallozzi was a writer and executive producer on Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, and Stargate Universe.
Mallozzi has been talking about his desire to continue the Dark Matter story in some form since Syfy Channel cancelled the show in 2017. After 39 episodes the show ended on a massive cliffhanger, with an alien armada invading through a spatial anomaly.
Fans have asked the writer if he would be open to finishing up the story in another format, such as a novel. “The prospect of sitting down to write a novel is too daunting, and I’m the only one who can tell my story,” he said in March. “Still holding out hope for that miniseries though!”
Mallozzi has other irons in the fire, with a number of pitches developed for original science fiction and fantasy series. He is also serving as an executive producer and showrunner on a TV adaptation of the Powder Mage series of novels.
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This is great news! I know the chances are slim, but at least a bit of hope again!
Awesome. I was enraged when they canceled Dark Matter! I’d love to see it back!
I wish him all the luck in the world
The show was goin well in the last season. Shame that it was cancelled. Hope that one day we will see the ending in some way. Mini-series would be great, though.
“Just finished the Dark Matter season 3 finale – and I’m angry all over again”
I never stopped being angry.
Bring back Dark Matter
Glad to see I’m not the only one still holding onto hope.. and that joe is still pushing!!!!
DM was (and still is) the only show that made all the tropes work, without it being chessy, and delivering on all the fascinating fronts of an Inter-galactic life in chaos. UGH I NEED IT!!!
Bring back One!
I was So mad the show was canceled! I enjoyed the humor mixed with dramatic moments in this show. I am happy to know SOMEONE (the Creator) still loves it enough to keep fighting to revive it.
I wonder if it will pick up where they left off or jump a few years ahead to cover the fact the actors have gotten older?
Why the hell end a show that way?
If nothing else give us an animated version of the DM Season4
I can’t believe they left us hanging like that. Second time through the series and it<s frustrating. A great series. Action, some humor and great special effects. Also an epic plot that desperately needs completion. I’m really hoping for the mini-series at least.
Just finished binge watching….again. So pissed at the S3 cliffhanger and no S4; although I did watch “Dark Matter Season 4, Virtual episode 4.01 Act 1 – Bing video” and etc to get an idea of where S4 was headed.
Tell whatever studio/network is appropriate to get off its a** and DO IT!!
I’ll never for SyFy for canceling this show and SGU.
I hope he pulls it off
It would be nice – That is to ‘conclude’ DARK MATTER, but really… Is this a pipe-dream or what? It wasn’t a bad series, however it could have abit more storyline and the way it ended [sans Episode 39], left many a fan somewhat dumbfounded… If not a series reboot, how about a ‘miniseries’ storyline to conclude this. Alas, I think not – I doubt there is little to any interest to conclude DARK MATTER, from the Author’s near total lack of interest regarding ‘we’ the fans, whom enjoyed the series – I being one. Oh well, so much for… Read more »
I only start to watch the Series this past year and i am hooked. I did not know about it until now. I watched it on NetFlix and it was awesome. Please come back and finish. I really love the Characters and it felt like family.
Please please let’s do something so it comes back
i love this show and rewatch occasionally :) currently on S2E1… i too would like some closure beyond the gargantuan cliffhanger… i sincerely hope it is handed down in some form or fashion… Thanks for an enjoyable story BUT Wil Wheaton… really?? ?
It was a great show and often these sci-fi shows dont get to end their story which is sad and makes fans loose faith in media in general, they should have done it years ago, but many still hold hope.
If Star Trek could come back 50 years later, who knows?
Hope it comes back it was great show . It’s seems all good shows get canceled dark matter, firefly ect all good show all need come back. Hope see dark matter finishs there story.
At least Firefly had a follow up movie (although somewhat disappointing). The Dark Matter “episode 40” might be great as a movie (mini? 2 part?).
Just can’t believe they ended it like that pls bring it back
Had I known it finsihed the way itbdid I wouldn’t have bothered watching it at all. I am so pissed