Today, Apple announced that For all humanity has been renewed for a fifth season that will continue to tell the alternate history of a world in which the Soviet Union is the first nation to put a man on the Moon and the United States is trying to catch up with its rival. Following the show’s Season 4 finale, the news of the renewal isn’t exactly a surprise, but Apple also revealed that executive producers Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi are working on a new series called Star Citywhich will delve deeper into the lives of the Soviets who changed the arc of human history.
In a statement about the new show, Wolpert and Nedivi described how – like For all humanityThe story jumped 10 years into the future each season – their fascination with the concept of the Soviet space program continued to grow. And with the original series going another decade into its fifth season, it was the perfect time to also look back at the space race from the Soviets’ perspective.
“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 from the other side of the space race.” , explained the two men.
Described by Apple as a “propulsive, paranoid thriller,” Star City will focus on the cosmonauts and engineers who dedicated their lives to the Soviet space program in order to realize a dream that did not always seem possible. Apart from Wolpert and Nedivi, who will present the new series, no other details on Star CityThe creative team, cast or premiere date have already been announced. We also do not know when For all humanityThe fifth season of is about to debut, but now seems like a pretty solid time to get into the series if you’ve been holding out.
