During Collider’s recent screening for the Season 1 finale of the offshoot series, Star City, Steve Weintraub asked Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi for an update on For All Mankind Season 6, which has been in production at the same time as the Soviet spin-off has been airing on Apple TV. Wolpert confirmed that the season is very close to wrapping principal photography, telling Weintraub, “We are almost to the end. We’re basically like an episode out from being done with principal photography of that season. It’s been very emotional. But I hope people are going to love it. It’s definitely taking some unexpected turns in the end, as we are known to do.” Though Wolpert and Nedivi did not confirm a release date, the series typically returns a year after filming wraps to accommodate VFX work, meaning For All Mankind Season 6 could arrive as early as Summer 2027.
Unexpected turns are certainly something we’ve all become accustomed to over the course of watching NASA see the tail-end of the Soviet rocket making it to the moon first, all the way through to the colonization of Mars. The sci-fi epic has never been shy about reshuffling its characters’ lives or making brave decisions, either — and that’s why we love it.
Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Survival Quiz Which Sci-Fi World Would You Survive? The Matrix · Mad Max · Blade Runner · Dune · Star Wars
Five universes. Five completely different ways the future went wrong — or sideways, or up in flames. Only one of them is the world your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out which dystopia, galaxy, or desert wasteland you’d actually make it out of alive.
💊The Matrix
🔥Mad Max
🌧️Blade Runner
🏜️Dune
🚀Star Wars
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You sense something is deeply wrong with the world around you. What do you do? The first instinct is often the truest one.
02
In a world of scarcity, what resource do you guard most fiercely? What we protect reveals what we believe survival actually requires.
03
What kind of threat keeps you up at night? Fear is useful data — if you’re honest about what you’re actually afraid of.
04
How do you deal with authority you don’t trust? Every dystopia has a power structure. Your approach to it determines everything.
05
Which environment could you actually endure long-term? Survival isn’t just tactical — it’s physical, psychological, and very much about where you are.
06
Who do you want in your corner when things fall apart? The company you keep is the clearest signal of who you actually are.
07
Where do you draw the line — if you draw one at all? Every survivor eventually faces a moment that tests what they’re actually made of.
08
What would actually make survival worth it? Staying alive is one thing. Having a reason to is another.
Your Fate Has Been Calculated You’d Survive In…
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
The Resistance, Zion
The Matrix
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
You’re drawn to understanding how the system works before figuring out how to break it.
You’d find the Resistance, or it would find you — your instinct for spotting constructed realities is the machines’ worst nightmare.
You function best when you have access to information and the freedom to act on it.
The Matrix built an airtight prison. You’d be the one probing the walls for the door.
The Wasteland
Mad Max
The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
You don’t need comfort, community, or a cause larger than the next horizon.
You need a vehicle, a clear threat, and enough fuel to outrun it — and you’re good at all three.
You are unsentimental enough to survive that world, and decent enough — just barely — to be something more than another raider.
In the wasteland, that distinction is everything.
Los Angeles, 2049
Blade Runner
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
You read people accurately, keep your circle small, and ask the questions others prefer not to answer.
In a city where humanity is a legal designation rather than a feeling, you hold onto something that keeps you functional.
You’re not a hero. But you’re not lost, either.
In Blade Runner’s world, that distinction is everything.
Arrakis
Dune
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
Patience, discipline, and political awareness are your core strengths — and on Arrakis, they’re survival tools.
You understand that the long game matters more than any single victory.
Others come to Dune and are consumed by it. You’d learn its logic and earn its respect.
In time, you wouldn’t just survive Arrakis — you’d begin to reshape it.
A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Star Wars
The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
You find meaning in being part of something larger than yourself — a cause, a crew, a rebellion.
You’d gravitate toward the Rebellion, or the fringes, or whatever pocket of the galaxy still believes the Empire’s grip can be broken.
You fight — not because you have to, but because standing aside isn’t something you’re capable of.
In Star Wars, that willingness is what makes all the difference.
‘For All Mankind’ Has Spanned Generations
Nedivi also spoke about writing the finale and the pressure of bringing the long-running story to a close. Asked whether it was emotional after working on the show for so long, he said the moment carried real weight. He told the audience:
“It feels like 70 years of this show. It was emotional. Anytime you do a series finale, there’s that pressure of, like, you have to land the ship, especially with this show. This has been almost 10 years of our lives, and seeing the cast and the crew and everyone together making the show from the beginning, so we felt a responsibility to them, but also to the fans, the people who have watched the show, and the reason the show has gone six seasons. So, as much as we know or control in this moment, it felt really special.”
Nedivi then revealed how he and Wolpert marked finishing the script, while keeping the actual ending firmly under wraps. “I remember finishing the script, and Matt and I went out for martinis and a steak, and we felt like, ‘This is the right ending for For All Mankind.’ And that’s as much as I’m going to tell you.”
For All Mankind stars Joel Kinnaman (The Killing) as Ed Baldwin, with Wrenn Schmidt (Nope) as Margo Madison, Krys Marshall (Supergirl) as Danielle Poole, Cynthy Wu (Before I Fall) as Kelly Baldwin, Coral Peña (The Post) as Aleida Rosales, Edi Gathegi (X-Men: First Class) as Dev Ayesa, and Toby Kebbell (Servant) as Miles Dale. You can stream the first five seasons on Apple TV.
