Rhys Ifans (House of the Dragon) is set to lead the cast of Apple TV+‘s upcoming series Star City, a spinoff from the streamer’s space drama For All Mankind. According to sources, Ifans is not leaving House of the Dragon, where he plays Ser Otto Hightower. It’s not clear, however, how his Star City casting will affect his future on HOTD in the long run.
Created by Ben Nedivi, Matt Wolpert and Ronald D. Moore, Star City is another 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 humanity forward.
Ifans will star as the ‘Chief Designer,’ the driving force behind the Soviet Space program.
Wolpert and Nedivi serve as showrunners and executive produce alongside Moore and Davis of Tall Ship Productions along with Steve Oster and Andrew Chambliss. The series is produced for Apple TV+ by Sony Pictures Television.
With a 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes, For All Mankind was recently renewed for a fifth season.
Ifans most recently completed filming The Scurry, a horror film with comedic undertones, alongside Ella Purnell and Paapa Essiedu. His character finds himself under attack by killer rodents after visiting a country café. He can currently be seen starring in Miramax feature Inheritance, starring opposite Bridgerton’s Phoebe Dynevor, which was just released in theaters last month. He’s also in production on Season 3 of House of the Dragon. He’s represented by Gersh, Brillstein Entertainment Partners, and 42 Management & Productions.
