The Furniture: "The Andromeda Strain" and Designing Around an Invisible Terror
Friday, March 12, 2021 at 3:15PM "The Furniture," by Daniel Walber, is a series on Production Design.
The Andromeda Strain is quite a potent movie these days. True, both Robert Wise’s film and the original Michael Crichton novel were primarily tapping into the anxiety of nuclear proliferation. But today, exactly 50 years since the film’s debut, it has become terrifyingly relevant for entirely different reasons.
The story begins with a satellite crash landing in New Mexico, bearing a mysterious extraterrestrial something that wipes out an entire town. A team of scientists is then brought to a top-secret underground facility in Nevada, codenamed “Wildfire,” to figure out what on earth is going on. It’s all about the fear of what we cannot see.
Which, of course, is a fascinating challenge for a design team...