Apple TV spin-off ‘Star City’ delves into space race from behind the Iron Curtain
A bold new chapter inspired by the critically acclaimed Appel TV space-race drama, “For All Mankind,” “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.
“Star City” premieres on Friday, May 29, on Apple TV.
A bold new chapter inspired by the critically acclaimed Appel TV space-race drama, “For All Mankind,” “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 spin-off stars “House of the Dragon” actor Rhys Ifans as the chief designer, who heads the engineers and cosmonauts in Star City, the formerly secret training base for astronauts outside Moscow, and “Motherland” actor Anna Maxwell Martin as the head of KGB surveillance overlooking their every move.
“What I wanted to portray was a man who sees very clearly that space changes people, that when people come back, they more often than not come back better people,” Ifans told Reuters.
Kicking off in 1969, the series, also starring actors Ruby Ashbourne Serkis, Agnes O’Casey, Josef Davies, and Priya Kansara, follows the astronauts, engineers, intelligence officers and their family members as they all take various risks while working on the Soviet space programme, with much of the danger on the ground and not just in space.
“In this world… behind the Iron Curtain… I think for a lot of people, they’re unaware of a lot of these details. And so, in the spy thriller part of it as well, the more authentic it feels, the more dangerous it feels,” show co-creator Matt Wolpert said.
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