The new “Star City” will return to the beginning “For of all humanity,” and see life from the Soviet side
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Apple TV+ hit For All Mankind has been renewed for a fifth season, and the spin-off also returns to the beginning to take a fresh look at the Soviet space race.
For All Mankind was one of the first shows announced by Apple TV+ back when it launched in 2019, and takes an alternative look at the space race. Although it now seems like a long time has passed since the Soviets first landed astronauts on the moon, the drama explores a very different reality that could have emerged.
Now, according to Variety, Apple TV+ has renewed it for the fifth time and at the same time has commissioned producers to create a spin-off. The spin-off, tentatively titled Star City, will once again begin with the Soviets beating America to the Moon.
Star City then “explores history from behind the Iron Curtain,” says the show's introduction, as seen by Variety, “showing the lives of the cosmonauts, engineers and intelligence officers caught up in the Soviet space program and the risks they all took to move humanity forward.”
The spin-off is being created by the same team behind For All Mankind, led by Ronald D. Moore. Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi will serve as showrunners of the new series.
“Our fascination with the Soviet space program grew with each season of For All Mankind,” said Wolpert and Nedivi. “The more we learned about this secret city in the forests outside Moscow where Soviet cosmonauts and engineers worked and lived, the more we wanted to tell this story about the other side of the space race.”
“We are thrilled to continue creating the alternate history universe of For All Mankind with our partners at Apple and Sony,” they continued.
No broadcast dates have been announced for the fifth season of For All Mankind or the first season of Star City. The process was greatly affected by the 2023 Hollywood strikes.
All four seasons of For All Mankind are now streaming on Apple TV+.
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