The expanse is undoubtedly an eye feast for every science fiction lover out there. The expanse is an American television series inspired by a series of novels written by James SA Corey. So far, series adopted one novel for every season and is expected to adopt the events of boo, 2015 nemesis games, for the new season.
The series received good responses from critics and viewers with an IMDb rating of 8.5/10 and 93% on rotten tomatoes. It won awards like best science fiction series and best series of the season. It completed three seasons on amazon prime and got canceled for the next season. But later, it was renewed for a new season in the fifth year on July 27th, 2019.
After cancellation, the fans petition along with surprise resurrection. The show is now in safe hands. The series confirmed its show for a new season even before the fourth season is premiered.
Here’s everything you need to know.
Release date and production work of new season:
Amazon hasn’t released the official date of the release, but Corey revealed that the premiere date had been set. On December 19th, 2019, all the ten episodes of the season were made available on amazon prime. And the filming of the fifth season is already wrapped up in February 2020.
Shohreh Aghdashloo, who plays Chrisjen Avasarala, confirmed on her official twitter account saying.
“Although we were able to finish shooting for season 5 on time, we are all scattered all over the world in quarantine now. Thank you @zoom_us for bringing us together from the family of #TheExpanse “.
The expanse involves much postproduction work similar to those of other SciFi genre series. We can expect a delay in post-production work because of the current ongoing pandemic. We might hopefully expect the release in late 2020 or early 2021.
The cast of “the expanse”:
The main cast is made up of Shohreh Aghdashloo playing the role Chrisjen, Shawn Doyle (Sadavir Errinwright), Dominique Tipper (Naomi Nagata), Shadow Gravey (Paulo Costanzo), Steven Strait ( James holden), Wes Chatham(Amis Burton), Florence Favre(Julie Mao), Thomas Jane and Alex Kamal
the newly appointed cast for the fourth season, Keon Alexander as Impulse, Nadine Nicole as Casual, and Jasai Chase Owens for The Deuce, had been promoted as series regulars for the fifth season.
The trailer of season 5:
Right now, there is no trailer released, but for now, enjoy this behind the scenes video by Dominique topper who plays Naomi Nagata.