For all Mankind season 5 release date speculation, cast, trailer, latest news
The alternate history drama has hooked a loyal fanbase.
It's official! For All Mankind season 5 is officially happening - and we have a spin-off to look forward to.
Season 4 of the epic alternate history show came to an end earlier this year, with fans clamouring for more. Now, they're in luck, as a new season and a new show, titled Star City, are coming our way.
"Our fascination with the Soviet space programme has grown with every season of For All Mankind," said executive producers Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi.
"The more we learned about this secret city in the forests outside Moscow where the Soviet cosmonauts and engineers worked and lived, the more we wanted to tell this story of the other side of the space race.
"We could not be more excited to continue building out the alternate history universe of For All Mankind with our partners at Apple and Sony."
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Here's everything you need to know about For All Mankind season 5 and Star City.
For All Mankind season 5 release date speculation
There's no confirmed release date for For All Mankind season 5 just yet. However, at a guess, we'd look at late 2025.
That's because the show has typically been able to debut new seasons 15-18 months from the preceding premiere.
We'll be keeping a close eye on developments and we'll keep this page updated with any news.
Check out the announcement video below:
What could happen in For All Mankind season 5?
There's no way of knowing exactly what might happen in For All Mankind season 5, but we can expect there to be another 10-year time jump, leaving the writers with a lot to explain as we arrive in an alternate 2010s.
"We not only focus on how history has changed between seasons," Nedivi told Den of Geek as season 4 premiered, "but also the technical advances that impact the new season.
"We’ve noticed that 80 to 90 per cent of the montage is now alt-history, whereas in the beginning there was a lot of real history. The butterfly effect of the show keeps expanding."
Who could be in the cast of For All Mankind season 5?
Once again, we can't be sure just yet of who will return.
In season 4, two of the longest-serving cast members were Joel Kinnaman (as Ed Baldwin) and Wrenn Schmidt (as Margo Madison), but the creators have previously warned that the originals won't be around forever.
Nedivi told Den of Geek: "One of the things we recognised early on was that, for the concept to work, the main cast of characters wouldn’t be able to be there until the end, or we’d have a show with 100-year-old ancient astronauts on Mars.
"So, we’ve always attempted to bring in a little new blood as our old cast members have had to leave."
The cast of For All Mankind season 4 included:
- Joel Kinnaman as Edward 'Ed' Baldwin
- Shantel VanSanten as Karen Baldwin
- Jodi Balfour as Ellen Wilson
- Wrenn Schmidt as Margo Madison
- Krys Marshall as Danielle Poole
- Cynthy Wu as Kelly Baldwin
- Casey W Johnson as Danny Stevens
- Coral Peña as Aleida Rosales
- Edi Gathegi as Dev Ayesa
- Toby Kebbell as Miles Dale
- Tyner Rushing as Samantha Massey
- Svetlana Efremova as Irina Morozova
- Daniel Stern as Eli Hobson
What will For All Mankind spin-off Star City be about?
Star City is so far described as "a 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".
The synopsis continues: "But this time, we explore the story from behind the Iron Curtain, showing the lives of the cosmonauts engineers intelligence officers embedded among them in the Soviet space programme, and the risks they all took to propel humanity forward."
The series will be showrun by For All Mankind creators Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi.
Is there a trailer for For All Mankind season 5?
Not yet – but we'll update this page if any new footage arrives.
For All Mankind is available to stream on Apple TV+.
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