Ep170 - Drew Boughton, Production Designer Amazon’s ‘The Man in the High Castle’

“The Man in the High Castle” is based on Philip K. Dick’s science fiction novel depicting an alternative history where the Axis powers won World War II. Mercifully this is a “what if” scenario which meant Production Designer Drew Boughton and his team had to solve their own complex, hybrid equation of addition, subtraction and reconstruction to produce this new reality. It is literally world building.

He completely remixed history by building three cultures that are somewhat familiar in history, but completely original and grafted onto modern society. Injecting the theme of “the banality of evil” underscores both the common threads and the unique variance between these three worlds.

In this interview, Boughton shares his early love for building sets and creating backdrops, how the industry has changed with CGI, his love for the groundbreaking film ‘Blade Runner,’ how he begins his process with the director, and the many complications in creating a Nazi-centric series.

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