For all Mankind Season 4 Interview: Showrunners Ben Nedivi & Matt Wolpert
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- Опубліковано 26 жов 2023
- For All Mankind, more often than not, maintains a spot in Apple TV’s top ten original series, which comes as no surprise under the pens of creators and writers Ronald Moore, Ben Nedivi, and Matt Wolpert. As we come closer to the sci-fi series’ 10-episode Season 4 global debut, showrunners Nedivi and Wolpert sat down with Collider’s Steve Weintraub for an extended interview to dig into how this show has evolved since the beginning and what they’re most excited for viewers to see as their alternate history reaches 2003.
The finale of Season 3 brings For All Mankind to the 21st century. It’s been eight years since the rocky start to NASA’s Mars base, Happy Valley. Due to circumstances, former opponents have become staunch allies, but the program now turns its attention to more pressing matters. The goal is no longer exploration for exploration’s sake, but harnessing asteroids and mining their valuable resources. This new development opens up opportunities for others to leave Earth’s orbit, as well as presents invaluable possibilities for Earth and Mars, but it also reveals tensions and greed. Previous season’s returning characters include Joel Kinnaman, Wrenn Schmidt, Krys Marshall, Edi Gathegi, Cynthy Wu, and Coral Peña. Season 4 is also introducing Toby Kebbell, Tyner Rushing, Daniel Stern, and Svetlana Efremova.
During their interview, Nedivi and Wolpert discuss how For All Mankind has been a heavily researched show as the creators are constantly reinventing their alt-history based on real-life events that shaped our societies. As we enter Season 4, the duo tells Weintraub what’s being explored this season is treading more in “theoretical material” now as their hopes to move the series into the present day creep closer with each season finale. They talk about Kebbell’s “Everyman” character, where Edward Baldwin’s (Kinnaman) arc is heading, and how much they have planned in advance. They also talk about the challenges of jumping ahead in time, creating their montages and cramming them with Easter eggs, how a Humphrey Bogart Western influenced this season in the writers’ room, shooting in Eastern Europe, plans for Season 5, what they’re working on next, and how AI fits into For All Mankind. For all of this and if we'll be seeing the Starship in Season 5, check out the full interview in the video above or the transcript below.
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And FYI, For All Mankind was the reason I picked up Apple TV.
Me too
Fantastic interview, hope the series continues on it's incredible trajectory!
Great interview!
If there was ever a show I wanted to get 10 seasons.
They already made a show set 200 years after FAM, it's The Expanse. RIP Kuz, first rock hopper.
Yeah I dont need a 200 year skip. I like steve, but he kept pitching shit to get to star trek. just watch star trek or the expanse.
Nope justo skip to the Expanse hey Apple take on theExpanse
I dont want a 200 year skip, that would be silly. The progression of everything is what is really good about this show, and how it incorporates real world stuff.
Love the part... What would the US build on Mars? What would Russia build? What would SpaceX build... oh I mean Helios😅😂
And far more importantly, what would China build?
If Apple should one day buy Paramount then they could just roll the show’s canon into the Star Trek universe thus making For All Mankind an official Star Trek prequel.
Warner Brothers Discovery wants to buy Paramount Global so no merger with Apple.
Starship? We haven't even got the Epstein Drive yet!
😮💨😮💨Was a big fan of the show concept, but it's dive into feminist/woke propaganda is so intrusive as to ruin the show.
Now it's just too unbelievable to the point it's comical.😂😂😂
Once you notice it, it ruins the show.
For example, in Season 4, Ed Baldwin (the main protagonist) is relegated to a supporting character. Even in the last episode, his supposed victory is taken from him by women.
All the men in this show are flawed, stupid, and bad. The women, especially in Season 4, are innocent, noble characters that have no flaws at all. At least in seasons past, we see women who cheat, lie, etc.
The show has very pro socialist undertones. I can definitely believe the soviet union had a shot at being first to the moon, but unless they are constantly stealing Western secrets, they had no shot at sustaining a level of technology similar to the west, it's the underlying flaw of socialism is that it doesn't reward excellence, it rewards mediocrity.
How bad are the men in Season 4?
The main protagonist is miserable, unhealthy, oblivious, and let's his feelings interfere with his work. He mostly is lead by other characters.
The NASA director is a weak, scared puppet of the Gore administration that the soviet director is able to do circles around. In one episode, the NASA directors wife comes up with the strategy that he uses, which is the only thing he really accomplished.
The other characters range from illegal smugglers to deadbeat dads that get dumped when they lose their jobs.
The CEO of Helios starts off as a beaten and broken man until the 2 female protagonists pick him up and get him back in the action. He's probably the most flawless male character of the season.
The most flawed woman is actually the wife/ ex-wife of the smuggler who dumps the father of her kids because he's not able to find a job. I mean, can't she find a job herself? She's so selfish and evil that the writers accidently make her seem more like a parasite leeching off her husband.
In the beginning episode, the Mars base commander is a white man, and because of one incident, he's fired from the position, yet the replacement (a black woman) is allowed much more leniency. On her watch, a revolt is started, an international incident occurred, and many people died or were wounded. A riot occurs, and a lot more smuggling occurs.
The 3 brainy women are completely flawless, one is a mother with a loving perfect husband, balancing a career with home life perfectly. The other gave up her job as NASA administrator to help get her male love interest a chance to move to the US in exchange for her participation in the Soviet space program. She is a key component of most of the scientific components of the story, sacrificing herself for the benefits of others. the 3rd Baldwins adopted child is a researcher trying to discover life on Mars. She stays out of the fray for the most part and has no character development.
So yeah, it's the worst season yet. I probably won't be tuning in for a season 5.
@@LibLibertyLibertarian You are like 95% wrong. Yes there is an effort to follow the current thing, BUT there is where everything ends because generally, you have fully developed characters and not tokens.
Dani starts as the diversity hire but proves her worth. Her husband though doesnt have any plot armour cause he is black he is deeply flawed. Dev is also deeply flawed and is shown trying to use his ethnic heritage to present himself as morally superior only to come out as manipulative and egotistical.
Helen's arc while seemingly promoting gay rights, imo is also subversive cause Helen's effort to get in bed with super conservative politics AND maintain her lesbo act, lead to shipping weapons and trigger happy jar heads to the moon base, causing so much death and destruction, the sacrifice of two of her close friends and almost a world war. All that because she could not be responsible and understand that there are more important things in the world than the content of her panties. She could resign from her post, go run her daddy's multi million company and be as gay and as open as she wished. But she wanted everything without understanding of the consequences on the lives of so many people.
The adopted daughter of Ed is for sure under developed, but its not strange coming from that household that she became a scientist. I find harder to believe the arc of the super business woman Karen who went from running a small pub, to co-own a space hotel. And again she had major character flaws, she messed up completely Danny, as if there were no other dicks around if she wanted.
What is more interesting imo is the show having USSR continuing to exist. And frankly its a much better world. Things might be moving slower within the soviet union, but its getting slowly better. The most important thing is that there is not a uni polar 30 years gap full of US excesses and perpetual wars and no neo-liberal onslaught that made the lives of every citizen on the planet and especially the Western middle class, much worse (unless you value more having gadgets than been able to afford a house, education and healthcare).
Where the show fails imo is that it creates a pseudo conflict about the oil workers, trying to emulate the fate of the coal workers in UK during that time. The problem is that even if those people were unemployed, the actual financial boost of the invention of a new fuel all over the economy, should have created new jobs where they could be absorbed. The show doesnt do a good job in explaining why this didnt happen.
Nobody cares it’s literally a tv show about space exploration and colonisation stop pretending that the “woke” are everywhere.
That dude has way to many teeth
and way more brain cells than you.