Overview
- Apple TV released the full Star City trailer Thursday, revealing an eight-episode prequel told from the Soviet point of view.
- The series debuts May 29 with two episodes and then rolls out weekly through July 10, landing the same day For All Mankind’s season 5 finale airs.
- The trailer highlights a hunt for a mole inside Star City who is leaking lunar base plans to the United States, raising stakes across the program.
- Rhys Ifans plays the Soviet Chief Designer, modeled on Sergei Korolev, with Anna Maxwell Martin as a KGB surveillance chief, from creators Ben Nedivi, Matt Wolpert and Ronald D. Moore, and produced by Sony Pictures Television.
- Showrunners describe a 1970s-set thriller that avoids the parent show’s time jumps and is positioned to work for new viewers as a standalone entry.