By The upcoming fourth season of Apple’s acclaimed alternate history sci-fi series “For All Mankind” takes the show’s action up to 2003, over thirty years beyond the first season’s story which began in June 1969.
The second and third seasons then jumped to 1983 and 1992 respectively. Thus one question that lingers is if there’s an endpoint for the series – do they aim to catch up to the present day?
Speaking with Collider this week ahead of the show’s return, the series creators and showrunners Ben Nedivi and Matt Wolpert say they have a long-term plan of around “six or seven” seasons and we are past the halfway point now in their “ambitious road map” for the series.
Nedevi explains they’ve stuck to their plans and so far it’s going great:
“Early on, we planned this out over six or seven seasons, so we’re still on the road map, and I’m proud to say that we’ve stuck to, I think, the big goalposts we’ve had so far.
Obviously, there are changes every season, and we leave the writers and the writers’ room flexibility to go off the map if we have to or make changes. But right now, I mean, we’re sort of past the halfway point in a way, you know, and it’s fascinating.
As in most TV shows, in the beginning, you dream of like, ‘Oh, I see this big arc…’ As ambitious as we were, I don’t think at that moment we really felt we were like, ‘Oh, yeah, for sure. Let’s talk about what’s gonna happen in Season 6 of the show,’ but here we are premiering Season 4.
I think the hope is to be able to take that story all the way to the present time. I think that was always, for me, a goal of how amazing it would be to get to the present of our alt-history and kind of see how different the world could have been. I think that that’s something we’re really looking forward to.”
Joel Kinnaman, Wrenn Schmidt, Krys Marshall, Edi Gathegi, Cynthy Wu, and Coral Peña return from previous seasons in the new one, whilst Toby Kebbell, Tyner Rushing, Daniel Stern, and Svetlana Efremova join the cast.
The fourth season of “For All Mankind” premieres November 4th on Apple TV+ with subsequent episodes airing every Friday.
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