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"Imagine two worlds, one floating inverted above the other, which almost meet at the tips of their mountains and connect only via a single tower. Imagine that you want to film a sci-fi love story in this extraordinary environment. Now imagine you have a tight budget. Seems terminal. But director Juan Solanas didn't think so.
When planning his film Upside Down in 2009 he hired Alex McDowell, the visionary British production designer behind such smashes as Minority Report, Watchmen and Fight Club, and who has gained a reputation for pushing new ways of bringing ambitious world-building to smaller movies. "New technology is making films more and more expensive," says McDowell, who is 53 and lives in LA. "But my instinct is that we can use technology to avoid automatically saying, 'This is a big digital-hybrid film, therefore it's going to cost $250 million....'"
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