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Kasra Farahani's Architectural Vision for *The Fantastic Four: First Steps*

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Tom Ravenscroft

9mo ago· 9 min readenInsight

Summary

The article discusses how production designer Kasra Farahani created a "mid-century modern future world" for the superhero movie *The Fantastic Four: First Steps*. Farahani drew inspiration from the architecture of Oscar Niemeyer and Eero Saarinen to design realistic yet futuristic sets that reflect a 1960s New York aesthetic. The goal was to blend mid-century modern design with a fictional futuristic vision, grounding the film's universe in tangible architectural influences.

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"The jet age manifested in real-world architecture"
"Our goal was to create a realistic yet fictionally futuristic version of 1960s New York"
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The Fantastic Four: First Steps is a superhero movie set in an alternative mid-century modern universe. Production designer Kasra Farahani explains how he used physical sets informed by the architecture of Oscar Niemeyer and Eero Saarinen to make it feel

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