The cast and creators of Amazon's The Man in the High Castle appeared at Comic-Con today to answer questions from fans and to tease the upcoming Season 2 - including a promise from executive producer Isa Dick Hackett that we'll come face to face with the elusive, rabble-rousing Man in the High Castle.
"We are shooting episode seven right now," she told the crowd on hand, "out of ten. And all I can say is that we'll meet the Man in the High Castle this season."
The first season was based on the award-winning alternate history novel her father, Philip K. Dick, wrote. But even still, it was a loose adaptation. "The series doesn't follow the same narrative progression as the book and it's sort of jumped around," she said. "It's always been more of a spiritual guide, and it will continue to be so going forward. Though there were things from the book that we didn't get to in Season 1 that we'll now get to in the second season."
So will we meet an actual person or is the Man in the High Castle an idea, or a movement? "We'll literally meet him," Hackett clarified, "like we do in the novel."
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On top of that tidbit, fans were shown a couple new clips along with the brand new Season 2 trailer -- which you can catch over at EW.com.
The first clip was more of a brief tease for the season, leading us through a dark warehouse corridor of shelves. Shelves filled with film reels. And while the camera moves down the path, we hear the voices of all the main characters saying "Every step I take is a step closer to..." - each giving a different answer. "Finding the man." "Saving my country." But then it all ends with them saying "The Man in the High Castle." And then there's a figure of a man right at the end of the clip.
The second clip, containing an introduction by executive producer Ridley Scott, was a scene featuring Juliana (Alexa Davalos) in peril. Trapped in a trunk of a moving car, driven by a resistance character played by BSG's Callum Keith Rennie, Juliana escapes and causes chaos as Rennie's character then tries to turn the car around to run her over. Stopped by Nazi officers, he chooses to open fire on her as she escapes, though wounded, around the side of a building.
Toward the end of the first season season, the story creeped into intriguing sci-fi territory - what with the multiverse aspects of the contraband films and Tagomi's (Cary-Hiroyuki Tarawa) physical travel to an alternate timeline. Will Season 2 keep running with this aspect? Well, yes, but executive producer Danny Zucker insisted that this was "not a science fiction show."
"This is an alternate history show," he said. "And the films will continue to play a role in the sense that they inform the characters and give them information. So only in the sense of these circumstances do we use this."
Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN and a member of the Television Critics Association (TCA). Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at http://ift.tt/1kiBJkp.
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