'BlacKkKlansman' production designer Curt Beech on recreating 1970s Colorado Springs for the movie
Curt Beech explains how he created three different, authentic worlds for Spike Lee's award-winning movie 'BlacKkKlansman'
Spike Lee's 'BlacKkKlansman' released this past August 10 on the 1st anniversary of the attack by white supremacists at the Charlottesville rally. Acclaimed by critics and loved by the audiences, the movie won the prestigious Grand Prix at the Cannes.
Based on the 2014 memoir Black Klansman by Ron Stallworth, played by John David Washington, it chronicles the life of an African-American detective in the Colorado Springs Police department in the 1970s who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan through a series of bizarre and true events. While Lee has rightly walked away with so many of the plaudits, production designer Curt Beech's work has not gone unnoticed.