‘Star City’: The New ‘For All Mankind’ Spinoff, Explained
Apple TV’s thrilling hit For All Mankind is expanding with a new exciting spinoff called Star City.
For All Mankind cocreators Ronald D. Moore, Matt Wolpert, and Ben Nedivi oversee the new series, which tells a different side of the alternative-history space race.
Here’s what we know about Star City so far.
What is Star City about?
The official description of the series describes it like so: “A robust expansion of the For All Mankind universe, Star City is a propulsive, paranoid thriller that takes us back to the 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, we 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.”
The series will follow the same timeline as For All Mankind but will instead track the story from the perspective of the Soviet Union.
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When does Star City premiere?
The series will premiere on Apple TV on Friday, May 29, with the first two episodes, and will release weekly until the season finale on July 10.
Who is in the cast of Star City?
The cast for the new series includes Rhys Ifans as the Chief Designer of the Soviet space program, Anna Maxwell Martin as KGB surveillance head Lyudmilla Raskova, Agnes O’Casey as surveillance team member Irina Morozova (who was portrayed by Sveltana Efremova in For All Mankind), Alice Englert as Anastasia Belikova (portrayed in FAM by Rita Khrabrovitsky), Solly McLeod as reckless cosmonaut Sasha Polivanov, Adam Nagaitis as cosmonaut Valya Markelova, Josef Davies as Sergei Nikulov, and Ruby Ashbourne Serkis as Tanya Markelova.
Is there a trailer for Star City?
Yes, the spinoff’s trailer has been revealed by Apple TV, above.
Star City, May 29, Apple TV
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C
Would prefer a hundred year time jump. Why cover ground already covered?
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B
I love the original but this does not sound the least bit interesting
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G
Just wait and you will see how awesome it is 🙂
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D
I might watch some of it to see if they manage to make this concept just ultra interesting but it sounds like "For All Mankind, now with extra depression!" so it's not going to be high on my list of things to watch.
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G
wait is Tyner Rushing going to be in the spinoff
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B
But will they have good hair?
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R
Let's hope they don't all have dodgy fake Russian accents
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G
I’m a huge fan of For All Mankind, but, like everyone else commenting here, I am not thrilled by this concept for a spin-off. The sequences set in the Soviet Union were among the least interesting to me. I can’t imagine it going for more than one season, but maybe Ron Moore will prove me wrong.