Key Takeaways
- Show Overview: The upcoming series Star City explores an alternate history of the space race.
- Release Schedule: The series will premiere with two episodes on Friday, May 29, followed by weekly episodes.
- Cast Highlights: Notable actors include Rhys Ifans and Anna Maxwell Martin among others.
- Creators: The show is crafted by acclaimed creators Ben Nedivi, Matt Wolpert, and Ronald D. Moore.
Apple TV is giving viewers a special sneak peek at the upcoming space-race limited series drama Star City. The upcoming show comes from award-winning creators Ben Nedivi, Matt Wolpert, and Ronald D. Moore, which expands the world of For All Mankind. The eight-episode limited series is set to start streaming globally on Apple TV with two episodes on Friday, May 29, followed by one new episode every Friday through July 10.
The show stars Rhys Ifans (House of the Dragon), Anna Maxwell Martin (Motherland), Agnes O’Casey (Black Doves), Alice Englert (Bad Behaviour), Solly McLeod (House of the Dragon), Adam Nagaitis (Chernobyl), Ruby Ashbourne Serkis (I, Jack Wright), Josef Davies (Andor) and Priya Kansara (Bridgerton).
The official synopsis reads,
“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 humankind forward.”
The new series is created by Nedivi, Wolpert, and Moore. Wolpert and Nedivi serve as showrunners and executive produce alongside Moore and Maril Davis of Tall Ship Productions, as well as Andrew Chambliss and Steve Oster. Star City is produced for Apple TV by Sony Pictures Television.
Creator Ronald D. Moore is best known for his work on Star Trek series — The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine — and the Saturn-winning Outlander, in addition to bringing Battlestar Galactica back to the screen and introducing it to a new audience. Their title of their series, For All Mankind, is inspired by an Apollo 11 lunar plaque, which reads, “We Came in Peace for All Mankind.” The title was also used for Al Reinert’s 1989 documentary, a masterpiece that anyone curious in space exploration – particularly the Apollo program – needs to see.
While For All Mankind got off to a bit of a rocky start (our own Alex Maidy gave it a 7/10 but noted that it was occasionally predictable), reviews for seasons two and three were remarkable, with both the second and fourth seasons even holding a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.
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