For All Mankind is getting a fifth season and a Soviet-focused spinoff

Right this moment, Apple introduced that For All Mankind has been renewed for a fifth season that may proceed to chronicle the alternate historical past of a world wherein the Soviet Union is the primary nation to place a person on the Moon and the US got down to meet up with its rival. Following the present’s season 4 finale, information of the renewal doesn’t precisely come as a shock, however Apple additionally revealed that government producers Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi are engaged on a brand new collection titled Star Metropolis, which is able to dig deeper into the reside of the Soviets who modified the arc of human historical past.

In a press release in regards to the new present, Wolpert and Nedivi described how — as For All Mankind’s story jumped 10 years into the long run with every season — their fascination with the idea of the Soviet house program continued to develop. And with the unique collection set to leap one other decade in its fifth season, it felt like a major time to additionally look again on the house race from the Soviets’ perspective.

“The extra we realized about this secret metropolis within the forests exterior Moscow the place the Soviet cosmonauts and engineers labored and lived, the extra we wished to inform this story of the opposite aspect of the house race,” the pair defined. 

Described by Apple as a “propulsive, paranoid thriller,” Star Metropolis will give attention to the cosmonauts and engineers who poured their lives into the Soviet House program in an effort to notice a dream that didn’t at all times appear doable. Other than Wolpert and Nedivi, who will showrun the brand new collection, no different particulars about Star Metropolis’s artistic workforce, forged, or premiere date have been introduced as of but. There’s additionally no phrase on when For All Mankind’s fifth season will debut, however now appears like a fairly stable time to get into the present in case you’ve been holding out.