'The Man in the High Castle' Season 2 Spoilers, Preview and Release: New Characters and Adventures Coming

By CP Contributor, Wednesday, August 03, 2016

Amazon's most watched TV series, "The Man in the High Castle," is expecting new characters and adventures as the show preps for its second season.

An up-and-coming new series, "The Man in the High Castle" is a dystopian alternative history series based on Philip K. Scott's award-winning novel. It explores what the world would be like had the Allied Powers lost World War II, and Japan and Germany ruled the United States.

During the San Diego Comic Con 2016, executive producers Isa Dick Hackett, David Zucker and Dan Percival, and cast members Alexa Davalos, Rupert Evans, Luke Kleintank, DJ Qualls, Bella Heathcote, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa and Rufus Sewell, sat down to discuss what's happening down at the set.

Currently, the show is shooting its seventh episode in Vancouver. Dick Hackett said the series will also continue to use Philip K. Dick's novel as a "spiritual guide."

More importantly, season one showrunner Frank Spotnitz's exit did not change the direction of the show, as the TV crew promises its fans.

"Certainly there hasn't been a noticeable shift in the things I care about: the integrity of the characters and story," Sewell had said. "I don't think it's been a mistake. It feels like his wishes are being respected."

Meanwhile, EP Dan Percival talked about the thematic shift in the show, saying that in today's climate, "a show about living in Nazi and Japanese-controlled US has never been more relevant."

Responding to questions about taking the show in a political direction, Percival also reminded everyone that it has been in development for ten years, and that the world caught up with the series' message and not the other way around.

They also reassured fans that Season 2 will address what's happening in other parts of the world, as the TV series will go to Berlin, where they will meet a new character, Nicole Becker, to be played by Bella Heathcote. The EPs, however, nixed a North Africa storyline to "take more time" in the drama's current landscape.

In an interview with Nick Hogan of TVOverMind, Heathcote talks about her new character, Nicole Becker, a documentary filmmaker. Heathcote describes her character as "very privileged, very wealthy," and is very passionate about the environment.

"She loves to party and she loves to flirt and she really likes to look at Joe Blake," she joked.

She also advised the fans of the show to keep on the look out for the season's sixth episode to see something great happen between Nicole and Joe.