There’s exciting news for fans of Apple TV+’s alternate history sci-fi series For All Mankind. First, the series has been renewed for a fifth season and second, Apple has greenlit a spin-off series titled Star City, expanding the franchise with the new series set to explore the Soviet side of the space race.
For All Mankind has chartered an alternate history where the Soviet Union were the ones to first land on the moon instead of America. That has challenged America to aim for loftier goals with NASA colonizing Mars and looking to a brighter future even as tension rises among the inhabitants of Mars. The series was created by Ronald D. Moore, Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi.
As for Star City, it is described as “a propulsive paranoid thriller” that will take audiences back in time to when the Soviets first landed on the moon. It will “explore a key moment in the alt-history retelling of the space race — when the Soviet Union became the first nation to put a man on the moon. But this time, it will explore the story from behind the Iron Curtain, showing the lives of the cosmonauts, the engineers, and the intelligence officers embedded among them in the Soviet space program, and the risks they all took to propel humanity forward.”
Wolpert and Nevidi will showrun Star City as well as executive produce alongside Moore and Maril Davis. The pair will still showrun the fifth season of For All Mankind once it begins production.
“Our fascination with the Soviet space program has grown with every season of For All Mankind,” said Wolpert and Nedivi. “The more we learned about this secret city in the forests outside Moscow where the Soviet cosmonauts and engineers worked and lived, the more we wanted to tell this story of the other side of the space race. We could not be more excited to continue building out the alternate history universe of ‘For All Mankind’ with our partners at Apple and Sony.”
“With each new season, For All Mankind continues to build out a fascinating world and capture global audiences through high quality storytelling that has been so skillfully developed by Ron, Matt and Ben. There is so much to explore and, we along with our partners at Sony, can’t wait to dive into this next chapter of the engrossing For All Mankind universe,” said Apple TV+ head of programming Matt Cherniss.
Rocketing into the new millennium in the eight years since season three, Happy Valley has rapidly expanded its footprint on Mars by turning former foes into partners. Now 2003, the focus of the space program has turned to the capture and mining of extremely valuable, mineral-rich asteroids that could change the future of both Earth and Mars. But simmering tensions between the residents of the now-sprawling international base threaten to undo everything they are working towards.
For All Mankind stars Joel Kinnaman, Wrenn Schmidt, Krys Marshall, Edi Gathegi, Cynthy Wu, Coral Peña, Toby Kebbell, Tyner Rushing, Daniel Stern and Svetlana Efremova.
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