- Cotton Mather will play a role similar to the one George Sibley had in the first season, but to not waste the talent of the actor (Seth Gabel) and repeat the plot, Cotton will be harder to keep in check with a familiar.
- Anne Hale has been compared to Season One's Mary Sibley, suggesting that now that Mary is out of the game, Anne Hale, now Cotton Mather's wife, is the most powerful woman of Salem.
- Isaac has been compared to Parsifal and his path to that of the fool who becomes hero, so we can deduce that Isaac will play a more important role in the coming season, maybe in line with the militia of the witch hunters (as suggested by the season finale of season two).
- Adam Simon has considered the idea of dr. Wainwright's return, suggesting that a man end up in Hell alive, once resurrected could return with little mental stability (" So the real question for Wainwright is, when he emerges from Hell, will he have even a shred of sanity left?")
- Joe Doyle will return to play the role of Baron Sebastian von Marburg, promoted as a major character.
- Jeremy Crutchley will return to play the role of Magistrate Hathorne, with an even more important role. ("Hathorne is a very important character, and Jeremy Crutchley is a remarkable actor. I hate to disappoint you -- but I think in season three, Hathorne will be even more important than he has been so far.")
- We will see again the Essex's stronghold and maybe discover some of the Surviving Essex's witches' secrets.("If we see more of the spider-witch-head, which will be creepy but totally up for it, that means we will also see the Secret Essex Stronghold, I'd imagine? Unless the spider-witch-head escapes, then our trip inside that awesome tree wasn't the last.")
- Season three will probably introduce other historical events, referring to the witch trials that were still in place during the years when the show is set.("We have a lot more story to tell -- that’s for sure. The true Salem events are still only in their first months in our show -- the most important events haven’t even happened yet -- and they continued for nearly 2 years! And beyond that we’re excited about a whole supernatural twist on American history, even beyond the events at Salem, so fingers crossed there will be much, much more to come...") “The events in Salem in 1692 that we know as the Salem witch panic has barely begun,” says Simon. “One of the things we will be doing is touching base again and in fact with the real history of Salem. “So now several months into it we’re going to start to see and play with the more famous events that did actually happen there. The big trials all came once the new governor arrived and a panel of judges were there. I’d say keep your eye on Hathorne who actually is one of those characters, like many of our characters, who’s based on a real [person], and that character in real life became the real focus and … judge, as it were, of the witch trials.”
- Both Mary Sibley and Tituba, main character in previous seasons, are truly dead. But the real question is: as far as they will remain dead? We haven’t seen the last of Mary Sibley “Death is not the end on ‘Salem,’” says Simon. “Death literally and figuratively is one place on a circular clock, not a digital one, that goes around and around and around, like the weave of fate.” Adam Simon continues, “Mary Sibley has always been the heart of ‘Salem.’ And the epic romance and often tragic romance between her and John Alden has always been fundamentally the driving motor of the show. So whether you call her dead or alive or however she may be, those two things will remain true.”
- Mercy Lewis (Elise Eberle) is still consumed by anger, again disfigured. Brannon Braga has called her the "first monster of America" that collects the Salem children's souls. In Season Three Mercy will lead a brothel in Knocker's Hole named Bird's Nest.
- Since there are enough characters and plots it seems than no major characters would be introduced in season three (as happened in season two with Hathorne and the Marburg witches). Recurring and extras will feature instead.
- Seth Gabel, who plays Cotton Matter, promised that season three would be crazier than season two. The actor said, "What's so exciting about a third season, what I love about this show is it keeps going and going deeper down the rabbit hole. [...] This just means we're going to be able to go even further than we did before ... If you saw how crazy season 2 was, we're going to get even more so."
- Marilyn Manson will join the cast in a special guest starring role. Manson will portray “Thomas Dinley,” a barber and surgeon who is the go-to man in Salem, from a shave and a haircut to being leeched, bled, sliced open or sewn up.
- Production on the third season, produced by Fox 21 Television Studios, begins January 21st, 2016 in Shreveport, LA.
- More witches are coming: “One of the things that’s always been a goal with this show is not just saying, ‘Oh, look, there’s witches in Salem,’ but to say, ‘This is a world of witches,’” explains Simon. “The new world is filled with French witches, Spanish witches, German witches, as we’ve seen, so we will certainly find opportunities to bring these other witches to [Salem] particularly now that the quote on quote dark lord is quietly, potentially reigning in Salem. That’s got to come to the notice of others who walk the left-hand path or work the night side, as it were.”
- Love is not dead: “I will say, there is going to be a huge, suspenseful, romantic arc that does include our most central characters that we’ve mentioned and know. And [it] includes what we’ve left hanging in relation to what does the dark lord himself want from Mary, what does Sebastian Marburg want from Mary, what would John Alden want, and Mary, in whatever form she may be in, what does she want? That will still be at the very, very heart.”
- There’s a whole other world below Salem. “There’s an underground in Salem, literal and figurative. The town of Salem has tunnels all over the place, this is true. Smuggling tunnels, all kinds of things — and who those tunnels belong to, what their purpose is, what is really going on in Salem on the Puritan side as well as on the witch side is going to be a great fun thing that we’re going to get deep into.”
- Cotton Mathers isn’t the new George Sibley: “[Anne and Cotton’s] story is not over … he has been Sibley’d, as it were, but do not think for a moment that he’s going to be sitting in that wheelchair just paralyzed. There is going to be a lot going on inside him and outside him with what he’s doing and what they’re doing. So that’s going to be very, very central next season.”
- Move over ‘Witch War,’ and hello ‘Road to Hell’. “We give each season titles. Season 2 was sort of coined as ‘Witch War’ and maybe this will turn out to be our title or maybe this will be our private joke … [but] we say it’s the ‘Road to Hell’ because as we all know, the road to hell is famously paved with good intention, and that’s kind of been Anne’s story so far.” A. Simon explains, “Anne, as we’ve seen, is a wonderful person on so many levels. But with that character we also really wanted to play with how someone might, well, go with the best of intentions in the entirely wrong direction … Anne has really convinced herself with everything she’s done, including what she did last night with Cotton, that it’s all for the best. It’s always the best of intentions.”
- Increase Mather will return in season three. Let's find out how by Stephen Lang's own words: "As you know, I was killed and consigned to Hell. But that didn’t stop them from bringing me back, but that was in Season 2. In Season 1, when my character, Increase Mather, got there, he just kind of started dominating and ruling; and of course it ended with his death and the dogs were eating him. And then he came back from Hell, where he’s learned a few things, but it’s not easy to come back from Hell, it can only be done occasionally, so in Season 3 my voice will appear. And then it’s kind of anybody’s guess whether I’ll make the journey back or perhaps they’ll make the journey down to see me at some point down there, but all I can say is once you’re on the show, you’re kind of part of that world, and just because you’re dead doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll never be seen again. He was a powerful and great character to play; I enjoyed playing him immensely."
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