Amazon’s The Man in the High Castle will go beyond the Philip K. Dick novel on which it is based, thus creating enough material for that coveted second season and beyond.
Speaking to Den of Geek, showrunner Frank Spotnitz reinforced plans to continue the series for “quite some time” beyond its first season:
I think my biggest difficulty was at the very beginning, recognising that I would have to add characters and plot that wasn’t in the novel in order to turn it into a television series. My fear was that I couldn’t do that without doing damage to the narrative, so I tried very hard to do it in a way that was respectful to the novel and just kind of gave more space to the themes and ideas that he had established. Having done that, I now feel like there’s a whole world of stories that we can explore, for quite some time.
Spotnitz also explained how the show has changed from its early origins at Syfy to the Amazon series we now have:
I’d say episodes one and two were almost identical, we changed very, very little. But three and four have changed quite significantly because originally, we were going to wrap it up in four episodes and then, if it was popular, continue it. When Amazon came on board, that was not the design at all. For instance, originally, in episode four, you met the Man in the High Castle. That doesn’t happen now at all. So, that was the biggest reconstruction we had to do.
Stay tuned as we monitor the status of The Man In The High Castle Season 2…
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