Järnjätten-regissören är dödstrött på dystopisk sci-fi

"I think that a central idea that helped us was that I didn't want to do dystopia, that we've seen that to death. That seems to be the only way people visualize the future these days. And that's fine. A lot of my favorite movies are have dystopia. But I didn't want to do that. I wanted to do a utopia and still show that people are corrupt and, you know, double dealing and all of the problems are there, just nicer surroundings. And, but I thought it would be funny to juxtapose those two and kind of comment on it in a weird way.

There are some architects and futurists, really, from the 20s, 30s, and 40s. And those were our influences. There's Hugh Ferriss, who did enormous buildings that were several blocks long and really tall. They're industrial designers like Norman Bel Geddes and Raymond Loewy, who did magnificent designs that made you want to be in use those things and be in those places. And we kind of filled it in from there. You know, you're looking at the future through the eyes of the past, and there's a certain charm to that."