History Trivia / TheManInTheHighCastle

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The [=BBC=] version would've been written by Howard Brenton, a playwright who was responsible for many early and influential episodes of ''Series/{{Spooks}}''.

* TroubledProduction: There were plans to bring the book into a TV series much earlier by different studios but fell through, the [=BBC=] in 2010 and [=SyFy=] in 2013, before Amazon studios finally took over.

** While Most of the Japanese characters are played by Japanese-Americans, Joel de la Fuente has no Japanese ancestry at all (he has Filipino ancestry). This might be why the show calls out his character's American accent when he speaks Japanese.

* FakeAmerican: features several Brits playing Americans, including Creator/RupertEvans (Frank Frink), Rufus Sewell (Obergruppenfuhrer Smith), and Burn Gorman (The Marshal), though the last is a half-example, being born in the US to English parents, then raised in the UK from the age of seven. Canadian actress Creator/ChelahHorsdal plays the American Helen Smith.

* FakeAmerican: features several Brits playing Americans, including Rupert Evans (Frank Frink), Rufus Sewell (Obergruppenfuhrer Smith), and Burn Gorman (The Marshal), though the last is a half-example, being born in the US to English parents, then raised in the UK from the age of seven. Canadian actress Creator/ChelahHorsdal plays the American Helen Smith.

* FakeAmerican: features several Brits playing Americans, including Rupert Evans (Frank Frink), Rufus Sewell (Obergruppenfuhrer Smith), and Burn Gorman (The Marshal), though the last is a half-example, being born in the US to English parents, then raised in the UK from the age of seven. Canadian actress Chelah Horsdal plays the American Helen Smith.

* ScienceMarchesOn: The mentions of Nazi colonies on Mars ''and Venus'' by 1962. Both the ease of getting to those planets, and the habitability of the latter, were overestimated in TheSixties.

* FakeAmerican: Some American characters are played by Brits, including Rupert Evans (Frank Frink), Rufus Sewell (Obergruppenfuhrer Smith), and Burn Gorman (The Marshal).
** Canadian actress Chelah Horsdal plays the American Helen Smith.

** While Most of the Japanese characters are played by Japanese-Americans: Joel de la Fuente has no Japanese ancestry at all (he has Filipino ancestry). This might be why the show calls out his character's American accent when he speaks Japanese.

** While Most of the Japanese characters are played by Japanese-Americans: Joel de la Fuente has no Japanese ancestry at all. This might be why the show calls out his character's American accent when he speaks Japanese.

** A similar alternate history novel, [[https://www.amazon.com/United-States-Japan-Peter-Tieryas/dp/0857665332 United States of Japan]], written by Peter Tieryas, is almost like ''The Man In The High Castle'', even stating to be the SpiritualSuccessor of the said novel. While ''The Man in the High Castle'' puts a lot of emphasis in the Nazi-occupied America, this novel focuses more on the Japanese-controlled America side of things instead. It's also geared towards a younger audience since ''United States of Japan'' novel uses a lot of anime and manga tropes, more particularly, {{Cyberpunk}} and ''[[{{Mecha}} giant robots]]''.

* ActorAllusion: Tamlyn Tomita plays Tamiko Watanabe, a new lady friend of Trade Minister Tagomi's in season 3. Tomita and Cary-Hiroyuki Tanaka had played a husband and wife in the film ''Picture Bride'' (1995).

** French actress Alexa Davalos as Juliana Crain.
* FakeNationality: Most of the Japanese characters are actually played by Americans: Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa plays Trade Minister Tagomi, Joel de la Fuente plays Inspector Kido, and Louis Ozawa Changchien plays Kasoura; though Tagawa and Changchien both have some Japanese ancestry. Some German characters are played by other nationalities as well: Danish actor Carsten Norgaard plays the German Rudolph Wegener, and Australian actress Bella Heathcote plays young Berlin socialite Nicole Becker.

* {{Jossed}}: Season 2 completely Josses the fan theory that The Man in The High Castle is Hitler himself.

** Additionally, the Nazis draining the Mediterranean to use the seabed as farmland. The seabed would become a huge salty desert with unbearably high temperatures, climate patterns across Europe would be thrown off, and all that water would have to go somewhere, raising global sea levels by at least 10 meters.

* MutuallyFictional: Subverted. ''The Grasshopper Lies Heavy'' is a book set in a fictional world where the Allies won WorldWarTwo, but it is yet ''another'' AlternateHistory.

* CaliforniaDoubling: Inverted in that all of the scenes set in California are actually shot elsewhere. Seattle doubles for San Francisco in some scenes, as can be seen with what is clearly the Smith Tower in the background of the first episode. British Columbia doubles for such locations as the Colorado Rocky Mountains and the Catskills, and the small town of Roslyn, WA stands for Canon City, CO.

* FollowTheLeader: Series/{{SS-GB}} is one for BBC, where the Nazis maintain control over the British Isles in a timeline where they won in the Battle of Britain campaign.

** The first few editions of the book had covers with a rising sun and a swastika side-by-side, sometimes dividing a map of the United States in half. Simple, direct, and to the point, right? But in the late 80s, after the release of the CultClassic PKD adaptation ''Film/BladeRunner'', all of a sudden we get '''''[[http://www.audioeditions.com/audio-book-images/l/The-Man-in-the-High-Castle-310626.jpg this]]'''''. Although the book mentions that [[StupidJetpackHitler Nazi technology in rocketry has advanced]], nothing in the book even remotely suggests the San Fransisco of this alternate universe is the kind of cyberpunk metropolis ''Blade Runner'' popularized. In fact, when Tagomi [[spoiler: crosses over to our world]], it's suggested the San Fran of the book is even ''less'' industrialized.

* CaliforniaDoubling: British Columbia for such locations as the Colorado Rocky Mountains and the Catskills.
* FakeAmerican: Several Brits play Americans, including Rupert Evans (Frank Frink), Rufus Sewell (Obergruppenfuhrer Smith), and Burn Gorman (The Marshal).
* FakeNationality: Americans Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (Trade Minister Tagomi), Joel de la Fuente (Inspector Kido), and Louis Ozawa Changchien (Kasoura) play Japanese characters (though Togawa and Changchien at least have some Japanese ancestry). Danish actor Carsten Norgaard plays the German Rudolph Wegener.