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Why it took 8 years for Amazon's 'Man in the High Castle' to make it to the screen

Nov 24, 2015, 21:48 IST

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American Nazi official Obergruppenfürer John Smith (Rufus Sewell) on &quotThe Man in The High Castle."Amazon

"The Man in the High Castle" is one of the most acclaimed new shows of the moment, but its road to Amazon took eight long years.

The 1962 Philip K. Dick novel certainly had interested parties who considered producing it, but they all seemed to fall out. In depicting a world in which the Nazis won World War II, the TV series would be both expensive to produce and full of symbols (like swastikas) that may not be easy for an audience to swallow (as the ads for the Amazon show are already proving).

At one point, it looked like a series would never happen.

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