‘Asteroid City’ Production Designer Created a Love Letter to the 1950s American Southwest

Jake Ryan as Woodrow Steenbeck in Focus Features’ 'Asteroid City.' Taking inspiration from the panoramic vistas of Utah’s Monument Valley as seen in The Searchers, Adam Stockhausen carved mountains out of foam and used painted backgrounds to give the remoteness of Asteroid City — the setting of a…

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