PROSPECT
A teenage girl and her father travel to a remote alien moon, aiming to strike it rich. But there are others roving the wilderness and the job quickly devolves into a desperate fight to survive.
Written and directed by Packrat’s own Zeek Earl and Chris Caldwell, PROSPECT stars Pedro Pascal (The Last of Us, Game of Thrones), Sophie Thatcher (Yellowjackets), and Jay Duplass (Transparent). It premiered at SXSW where it won the Visions Competition.
The film screened theatrically nationwide and has been lauded for its nuanced story, exquisite worldbuilding, and distinctive production design aesthetic.
Inspired by the sci-fi films of our childhood, our ambition was to see how far we could push an indie budget in the realm of practical production design. To pull this off, we rented an old boat-building warehouse in Seattle and filled it with artisans, engineers, cosplayers, and carpenters - many of whom had never worked on a feature film before.
When it came time for production, our production design warehouse became the sound stage for our spaceship sets. The majority of the exteriors were shot deep in the wilderness of the Olympic Rainforest.
SETS
The sets for Prospect were all built in an old boat building warehouse in Seattle, which then became the sound-stage for production. The majority of them were digitally designed and cut with our 4x8 CNC machine out of flatpack materials before being quickly assembled
PROPS
Every prop for PROSPECT was designed with a rigorous attention to detail. These artifacts needed to inform the viewer as much as possible about the world of the film. Utility, cost, weight, and implications for life in an alien frontier had to be consider
COSTUMES
These characters aren’t part of a military organization or mega-corp, but instead geared up for the expedition at the space-faring equivalent of an REI. Each costume had to be distinctive and say something about its character’s backstory.
