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Fantastic Four production designer Kasra Farahani talks about optimism, The Jetsons, and other inspirations for his gorgeous designs. The Fantastic Four: First Steps takes place in an entirely different Earth, Earth-828 to be exact. Here, there are no Avengers or X-Men or any of the traditional superheroes we’ve become acquainted with in the advent of Marvel Studios. Instead, the only super-powered beings within this multiverse iteration of Earth are the Fantastic Four, led by Reed Richards (Pedro Pascal). A da Vinci-level inventor/architect, Richards’s influence on this Earth manifests visually in a gorgeous array of retro-futuristic buildings and interior designs tilted toward mid-century modern. Fantastic Four production designer Kasra Farahani dabbled in retro-futurism before. He received an Emmy nomination for his work on the Loki Disney+ series. However, his work here in the world of the Fantastic Four exists on an entirely different plane from that of Loki‘s TVA (Time Variance Authori