Apple claims Star City is a "propulsive paranoid thriller" that explores a key moment in the alternate history of the space race - when the Soviet Union became the first nation to put a man on the moon. But this time the story is explored from behind the Iron Curtain, showing the lives of the cosmonauts, engineers and intelligence officers who were part of the Soviet space program, and the risks they all took to advance humanity.
“Our fascination with the Soviet space program has grown with every season of For All Mankind,” Wolpert and Nedivi said in a statement. “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. 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.”
Added Matt Cherniss, head of programming for Apple TV+: “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. 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.”
Season four of For All Mankind picks up eight years after the events of season three. Happy Valley has quickly expanded its presence on Mars by turning former enemies into partners. Now in 2003, the space program's focus is on capturing and mining highly valuable, mineral-rich asteroids that could change the future of both Earth and Mars. But simmering tensions among the residents of the now expanding international base threaten to undo everything they are working towards.
The cast includes Joel Kinnaman, Wrenn Schmidt, Krys Marshall, Edi Gathegi, Cynthy Wu, Coral Peña, Toby Kebbell, Tyner Rushing, Daniel Stern and Svetlana Efremova.
In addition to being showrunners, Wolpert and Nedivi are executive producers of Star City, along with Moore and Maril Davis of Tall Ship Productions. All four are also executive producers of For All Mankind, which Wolpert and Nedivi also showrun. David Weddle, Bradley Thompson, Seth Edelstein and Kira Snyder also produce For All Mankind.
Both series are produced for Apple TV+ by Sony Pictures Television.
