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