First-Look Photos for the FOR ALL MANKIND Spinoff STAR CITY Take Us Inside the Soviet Side of the Space Race
Apple TV+ has officially unveiled the first-look photos for Star City, the upcoming spinoff of For All Mankind, and it looks like we’re about to see the space race from a whole new perspective.
Created by Ben Nedivi, Matt Wolpert, and Ronald D. Moore, the new series expands the alt-history universe that fans have been obsessed with since 2019.
This time, the story shifts focus across the Iron Curtain, digging into the Soviet side of the race to the moon. The eight-episode season premieres with two episodes on May 29 on Apple TV+, with new episodes rolling out through July 10.
According to the official logline, the series “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 humankind forward.”
While For All Mankind imagined an alternate timeline where the Soviets beat the United States to the moon, Star City zooms in on the people who made that victory possible.
It isn’t just about rockets and political one-upmanship. It’s about the cosmonauts risking their lives, the engineers pushing impossible tech forward, and the intelligence officers operating in the shadows.
The series features an ensemble cast led by Rhys Ifans, known for House of the Dragon, alongside Anna Maxwell Martin from Motherland, Agnes O’Casey of Black Doves, Alice Englert from Bad Behaviour, and Solly McLeod, also from House of the Dragon.
They’re joined by Adam Nagaitis of Chernobyl, Ruby Ashbourne Serkis from I, Jack Wright, Josef Davies of Andor, and Priya Kansara, who appeared in Bridgerton.
News of the spinoff first broke in 2024 when For All Mankind was renewed for its fifth season, which premieres March 27.
