Apple TV has revealed a gripping first look at ‘Star City,’ a bold new drama that expands the alt-history universe of ‘For All Mankind.’ Created by award-winning storytellers Ben Nedivi, Matt Wolpert and Ronald D. Moore, the series shifts the lens of the space race eastward, behind the Iron Curtain, where ambition burned just as fiercely.
Set during the pivotal moment when the Soviet Union became the first nation to put a man on the moon, ‘Star City’ unfolds as a propulsive paranoid thriller. This time, the story is told from inside the Soviet machine. Not from mission control in Houston, but from corridors humming with secrecy and suspicion.
The eight-episode series explores the lives of cosmonauts chasing immortality, engineers balancing genius with political peril, and intelligence officers embedded among them, watching, reporting, calculating. Every launch carries the weight of history. Every success has a shadow.
Leading the ensemble is Rhys Ifans, known to global audiences for his work in ‘House of the Dragon’. He is joined by Anna Maxwell Martin of ‘Motherland,’ Agnes O’Casey from ‘Black Doves,’ and Alice Englert of ‘Bad Behaviour.’
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The cast also includes Solly McLeod of ‘House of the Dragon,’ Adam Nagaitis from ‘Chernobyl,’ Ruby Ashbourne Serkis of ‘I, Jack Wright,’ Josef Davies of ‘Andor,’ and Priya Kansara from ‘Bridgerton.’
Nedivi and Wolpert serve as showrunners and executive producers alongside Moore. Additional executive producers include Maril Davis of Tall Ship Productions, Andrew Chambliss and Steve Oster. The series is produced for Apple TV by Sony Pictures Television.
‘Star City’ will debut globally on Apple TV with its first two episodes on Friday, May 29. New episodes will launch weekly every Friday through July 10.
