Apple TV+ sci-fi drama series For All Mankind has just been renewed for its fifth season – and as a bonus, there’s now going to be a spinoff series that focuses on the Soviet space program called Star City.
The new spinoff is being developed by For All Mankind creators Ronald D. Moore, Matt Wolpert, and Ben Nedivi – with Nedivi and Wolpert as showrunners.
It’s been reported the series “will return to the beginning of For All Mankind’s alternative timeline, in which the Soviets are the first to reach the moon.”
The interesting angle on this is that it’ll “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 Nedivi said in a statement: “Our fascination with the Soviet space program has grown with every season of For All Mankind. 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.”
They continued: “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.”
Matt Cherniss, head of programming for Apple TV+ told Variety: “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.”
He went on to say: “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.”
I am so happy about ALL of this news, because I am addicted to this show – which I’ve given the nickname DEATH IN SPACE. There are great storylines exploring an alternate timeline of what would have happened if the Russians had beaten the Americans to the Moon, as well as deep characters and… utterly horrifying, hugely stressful, very gripping scenes of things randomly going wrong IN SPACE. Who’s going to die next? You’ll have to wait and see.
Seriously, I love it.
Think of it as like Game of Thrones but less problematic, minus the incest and IN SPACE (and NASA headquarters on Earth). Oh, and it’s more science-y and there’s no undead as yet. DUDE. If you’re not watching this yet, you have my permission to binge, and you can thank me later.
What do you think of the latest For All Mankind news? Are you a fan, or might this get you interested in watching? Let me know… below!
