Production designer Ross Dempster explains his future-forward look on Netflix's new 'Lost in Space'
In reimagining Netflix's reboot of the classic '60s TV show "Lost in Space" (and the subsequent 1998 film) for 2018 audiences, production designer Ross Dempster didn't necessarily look to the show's ancestry as a source of visual inspiration. Instead, he took a cue from Stanley Kubrick's 1968 masterpiece "2001: A Space Odyssey."
"For a movie that was made in the '60s, the design of ('2001') holds up by the simplicity of it," Dempster said in a recent telephone interview about the film, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this month. "It's not overthinking too much. That was probably the biggest influence, was trying to emulate how powerful that ended up being because it didn't try and oversell anything."
