---
name: "Kasra Farahani"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/kasra-farahani"
fi1m_id: "kasra-farahani"
imdb_id: "nm1227484"
tmdb_id: 1077115
wikidata_id: "Q26904302"
roles: ["Production designer","Director"]
born: "1 January 1978"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 6
average_fi1m_score: 57
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-10-05T05:21:14.567594+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Kasra Farahani

## Identity

Kasra Farahani

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/kasra-farahani
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** kasra-farahani
- **IMDb ID:** nm1227484
- **TMDB ID:** 1077115
- **Wikidata ID:** Q26904302
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26904302, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1227484/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1077115

Production designer and director. Born 1 January 1978 in Iran.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer, Director
- **Born:** 1 January 1978, Iran
- **Active:** 2008–present
- **Also known as:** Kasra G Farahani
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 6: 1 acting, 1 directing, 4 crew
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 54 (1), 2010s 58 (3), 2020s 71 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 57 to 59 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 2 under 60
- **Genres:** Action 3, Adventure 3, Fantasy 3, Family 1, Science Fiction 1
- **Screen time:** 7 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $2,572m across 4 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26904302, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1227484/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1077115

## Coming up

- *Untitled X-Men Film* (2028-05-04), Production Design

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*The Fantastic 4: First Steps*](https://film.one/film/the-fantastic-4-first-steps.md) (71), [*Loki*](https://film.one/tv/loki.md) (71)

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## Fi1m on Kasra Farahani

> Kasra Farahani builds whole worlds out of one decade and then refuses to let anyone break them: a time-police office from about 1975, a Manhattan of cream curves and brass. Twice now the place he made has been the best thing in the picture.

Somewhere in the Time Variance Authority a filing clerk sits behind an orange partition and has never heard of a fish. The office around him explains why. Brown carpet, pneumatic tubes, amber light, a bureaucracy that has been stamping forms since before time began and has not redecorated since about 1975. That is Kasra Farahani's habit as a production designer. He picks a period, builds all of it, and holds everyone to the rules, down to the typeface on the forms.

He came up through the art department, drawing concepts and art directing studio features from the late 2000s, with an illustrator's credit on *Black Panther* (2018), and designed smaller things, *Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn* (2012) and *Earth to Echo* (2014), before *Loki* (2021) made him the name on a big one. He trained in industrial design before he came to film, and it shows: his rooms look manufactured rather than dressed. On *Loki* he stayed across both seasons, joined the writing staff and directed an episode of the second, which is not a route production designers usually take. He had already directed one feature, *The Good Neighbor* (2016). Then came *The Fantastic 4: First Steps* (2025), and an X-Men film is next.

*First Steps* is the clearer statement. Farahani's New York is cream curves, brass trim and rounded glass, where the rockets look like ornaments and even the kitchen has fins. Jess Hall lights it like a picture book and holds his shots long enough for us to read the rooms; Alexandra Byrne's tweed and polonecks come from the same Sunday supplement. It is one place, built once and stuck to, which is rarer in a Marvel film than it should be. He builds his sets as full rooms with the lighting already in them, so the cinematographer has somewhere to stand, and you can see it in Autumn Durald's amber on *Loki*, which makes the TVA look cosy and slightly unwell at once. We came out of *First Steps* wanting the flat more than the film, and we do not think that was our failing: the kitchen is the one part of the picture somebody finished.

There is the catch. We scored both *Loki* and *First Steps* 71, and in both the design was better than the story inside it. *Loki* explained its rules until the explaining took over; *First Steps* built a lovely city and then could not think what to do with the sky above it. None of that is Farahani's fault, but it is the bargain of working inside franchises this size: the designer gets the money to build everything, and then somebody else decides what happens in it. He has shown twice that he can make a complete world. What we would like next is a story that deserves one, and we would not mind if he directed it himself.

## Biography

Kasra Farahani is a production designer and director. Born in Iran in 1978, he was raised in Los Angeles after his family fled the Islamic Revolution. He studied industrial design at ArtCenter College of Design.

Farahani began his career in the art department on films including *Alice in Wonderland* (2010), *The Curious Case of Benjamin Button* (2008) and *Black Panther* (2018). He served as production designer on the miniseries *Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn* (2012) and on *Loki* (2021–2023), for which he received a Primetime Emmy nomination and an Art Directors Guild Award. He also wrote and directed an episode of the series' second season.

His credits as production designer include *Earth to Echo* (2014), *Bliss* (2021) and *The Fantastic Four: First Steps* (2025).

*Sources: imdb.com, nytimes.com, marvel.com, lamag.com.*

## On Fi1m (6)

### Performed in (1)

- *The Fantastic 4: First Steps* (2025), Fi1m 71, as Interpreter — [page](https://film.one/film/the-fantastic-4-first-steps.md)

### Directed (1)

- *Loki* (2021), Fi1m 71, Teleplay, Director, Staff Writer, Production design — [page](https://film.one/tv/loki.md)

### Crew (4) — the average rests on these

- *Star Trek Into Darkness* (2013), Fi1m 60, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/star-trek-into-darkness.md)
- *Thor* (2011), Fi1m 66, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/thor.md)
- *Alice in Wonderland* (2010), Fi1m 48, Assistant Art Director — [page](https://film.one/film/alice-in-wonderland-2010.md)
- *Hancock* (2008), Fi1m 54, Production Illustrator — [page](https://film.one/film/hancock.md)

## Complete filmography (27)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Untitled X-Men Film* (2028), Production Design
- *The Fantastic 4: First Steps* (2025), as Interpreter · Production Design — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/film/the-fantastic-4-first-steps.md)
- *Loki* (2021), series, Production Design, Staff Writer, Director, Teleplay — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/tv/loki.md)
- *Bliss* (2021), Production Design
- *Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)* (2020), Supervising Art Director
- *Captain Marvel* (2019), as Art Direction — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/captain-marvel.md)
- *Black Panther* (2018), Conceptual Illustrator — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/black-panther.md)
- *Bright* (2017), as Art Direction
- *Tilt* (2017), Director, Writer, Producer
- *The Good Neighbor* (2016), Director
- *Allegiant* (2016), Concept Artist
- *An Entanglement* (2015), Thanks
- *Concerning the Bodyguard* (2015), Director
- *Earth to Echo* (2014), Production Design
- *Star Trek Into Darkness* (2013), as Art Direction — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/star-trek-into-darkness.md)
- *Noon* (2013), Story, Screenplay, Producer, Director
- *Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn* (2012), series, Production Design
- *Men in Black 3* (2012), as Art Direction — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/men-in-black-3.md)
- *Thor* (2011), as Art Direction — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/thor.md)
- *Alice in Wonderland* (2010), Assistant Art Director — Fi1m 48, [page](https://film.one/film/alice-in-wonderland-2010.md)
- *Land of the Lost* (2009), Assistant Art Director
- *The Curious Case of Benjamin Button* (2008), Conceptual Illustrator — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/the-curious-case-of-benjamin-button.md)
- *Hancock* (2008), as Production Illustrator — Fi1m 54, [page](https://film.one/film/hancock.md)
- *Miami Vice* (2006), Conceptual Illustrator — Fi1m 67, [page](https://film.one/film/miami-vice-2006.md)
- *Jarhead* (2005), as Production Illustrator
- *War of the Worlds* (2005), Costume Illustrator — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/war-of-the-worlds.md)
- *Ranger's Apprentice*, Concept Artist

## Gallery

- ![Kasra Farahani](https://film.one/media/person/8239/gallery-73f9abe05ce0.jpg) Kasra Farahani — Image via TMDB
- ![Kasra Farahani](https://film.one/media/person/8239/gallery-e18b86f81039.jpg) Kasra Farahani — Image via TMDB

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