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10,000 BC
Promotional poster
Directed byRoland Emmerich
Written byHarald Kloser
Roland Emmerich
Produced byMichael Wimer
Roland Emmerich
StarringSteven Strait
Camilla Belle
Cliff Curtis
Narrated byOmar Sharif
Music byHarald Kloser
Thomas Wander
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release dates
March 6 2008 (D, AUS)
March 7, 2008 (USA)
March 14, 2008 (UK)
Running time
109 min.
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$140,000,000

10,000 BC is a 2008 American film set in the prehistoric era directed by Roland Emmerich and starring Camilla Belle and Steven Strait. The World Premiere of the movie was on February 26, 2008 at the CineStar theater in Berlin's Potsdamer Platz.[1][2] The cinema release was on March 6, 2008.[3]

Plot

The film follows D'Leh (Steven Strait), a young mammoth hunter who is the son of a hunter that abandoned the village. Growing up, his only friends were Tic' Tic and Evolet, with whom he he falls in love. In one day during the mammoth herds, D'Leh accidentally kills one mammoth and is hailed a hero until he tells the truth. At night, a group of raiders come in and kidnap several of the tribe, including Evolet, who the warlord leader takes a liking towards. During their travels to save their people, D'Leh falls into a trap-hole where he finds a trapped Spear-Tooth. Despite being scared, D'Leh saves the cat by letting it free. D'Leh and Tic'Tic keep on walking through the desert finding the village of the Naku tribe. Just when the Naku are about to attack them, the Spear-Tooth appears, but D'Leh confronts it. Recognizing him as the one who saved it earlier, the tiger spares him and protects him and Tic'Tic from the tribe. The tribe acknowledges D'Leh as the fulfiller of the prophecy that someone who speaks to the Spear-Tooth would appear (and would be their savior). D'Leh also learns the fate of his father from Nakudu, leader of the Naku. Nakudu had met his father and learnt the Yagahl's words (their language) from him.

Other tribes of the area, on being convinced that the prophecy had been fulfilled, join them. D'Leh learns that Evolet and the others are being taken to the "Mountain of the gods" where they would be forced to build altars and pyramids for a mysterious god-like figure. Determined to rescue Evolet and the rest of his tribesmen (and all the other slaves), D'Leh and his friends organize an attack. D'Leh kills the tyrant "god", leaving all spectators awestruck. Evolet frees herself by stabbing the warlord with an arrow. The dying warlord, out of spite, shoots an arrow at Evolet from behind killing her. However, she comes back to life to fulfill the prophecy of Old Mother, who revives her with her last breath. Nakudu, fulfilling D'Leh's father's wishes, gives him seeds. D'Leh and the rest of the Yagahl bid farewell to the Naku and return to their village. The film ends as D'Leh and Evolet observe the growth of the seedlings.

Cast

  • Steven Strait as D'Leh, a mammoth hunter.
  • Camilla Belle as Evolet, D'Leh's love and the survivor of a different tribe that was killed by the "four legged demons". While kidnaped, her hand was whipped, forming a scar in the shape of the "hunter"
  • Cliff Curtis as Tic Tic, D'Leh's mentor.[4]
  • Joel Virgel as Nakudu, leader of the Naku tribe.
  • Affif Ben Badra as Warlord, leader of the "four legged demons" who falls in love with Evolet.
  • Mo Zinal as Ka'Ren
  • Nathanael Baring as Baku
  • Mona Hammond as Old Mother, the Yagahl wise old woman.
  • Marco Khan as One-Eye, Warlord's main henchman.
  • Reece Ritchie as Moha
  • Joel Fry as Lu'kibu
  • Kristian Beazley as D'Leh's father.
  • Junior Oliphant as Tudu, Nakudu's son.
  • Boubacar Badaine as Quina, leader of another tribe.
  • Tim Barlow as the Pyramid God. The last of the three surviving Atlanteans, he is a tyrant who sought to enslave all people on earth. The Pyramid God covers his body to hide signs of his aging from his followers to have think of him as divine. He also fears the "hunter", who is said to kill him.
  • Omar Sharif as Narrator
  • Ayaan Also
  • Ben Hart
  • The Mammoths
  • The Saber-tooth cat - Saved from being drowned by D,Leh

Casting process

Emmerich opened casting sessions in late October 2005.[5] In February 2006, Camilla Belle and Steven Strait were announced to star in the film, with Strait as the mammoth hunter and Belle as his love.[6] Emmerich felt that casting well known actors would distract from the realistic feel of the prehistoric setting. "If like, Jake Gyllenhaal turned up in a movie like this, everybody would be, 'What's that?'", he explained. Unknown casting also helped keep the film's budget down.[7]

Production

Director Roland Emmerich and composer Harald Kloser originally penned a script for 10,000 BC. When the project received the greenlight from Columbia Pictures, screenwriter John Orloff began work on a new draft of the original script. Columbia Pictures, under Sony Pictures Entertainment, dropped the project due to a busy release calendar, and Warner Bros. picked up the project in Sony's vacancy.[8] The script went through a second revision with Matthew Sand and a final revision with Robert Rodat.[6] Emmerich rejected making the film in an ancient language (similar to The Passion of the Christ or Apocalypto), feeling it would not be as emotionally engaging.[9]

Production began in spring 2006 in South Africa and Namibia.[6] Location filming also took place in southern New Zealand[10] and Thailand. Before shooting began, the production had spent eighteen months on research and development for the computer generated imagery. Two companies recreated prehistoric animals. To cut time (it was taking sixteen hours to render a single frame) 50% of the CGI models' fur was removed, as "it turned out half the fur looked the same" to the director.[7]

Critical reception

Critics have given the film mixed to generally negative reviews. As of March 14 2008, the review aggregator at Rotten Tomatoes has reported that 9% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 83 reviews.[11] Metacritic reported the film had an average score of 37 out of 100, based on 25 reviews.[12] One critic snarkly remarked that "Writer/director/producer Roland Emmerich appears to have, quite unintentionally, crafted a script that genuinely seems like it was written by some type of knuckle-dragging caveman."[13] It was also highly criticized by many for its blatant and rampant inaccuracy.

Influences

Similarities to One Million Years B.C. have been pointed out by some critics.[14] Glenn Whipp of the Los Angeles Daily News draws numerous comparisons between 10,000 BC and other films in the prehistoric film genre, especially One Million Years B.C.[15] and Apocalypto[16][17]

At the 2008 Wondercon, Emmerich mentioned the fiction of Robert E. Howard as a primary influence for the film's setting.

The film also apparently draws on the theories advanced by Graham Hancock in suggesting the Pyramids of Egypt are far older than traditional archaeology currently argues, and that they are somehow related to an ancient civilization's fascination for the constellation of Orion.

Box office performance

In the U.S. the film opened on top pulling in $35.7 million, which was $12 million more than the film which ranked second.[18] As of March 14, 2008, the film has a domestic box office gross of $42,857,643 and a foreign gross of $25,875,065, giving it a worldwide total of $68,732,708.[19]

References

  1. ^ Welt Online (2008-02-26). "Emmerich feiert Start seines Steinzeit-Films (German)". Die Welt. Retrieved 2008-03-11. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  2. ^ Hilary Whiteman (2008-03-03). "10,000 BC: The premiere (English)". CNN. Retrieved 2008-03-11. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  3. ^ imdb.com (2008-03-06). "10,000 BC (2008) IMDb". IMDb. Retrieved 2008-03-11. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  4. ^ Shawn Adler (2007-06-29). "Emmerich Heads Back In Time For '10000 B.C.'". MTV. Retrieved 2007-07-11. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  5. ^ Michael Fleming (2005-10-05). "Sci-fi guy follows primal instinct". Variety. Retrieved 2006-08-20. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  6. ^ a b c Borys Kit (2006-02-27). "Strait, Belle fight for mankind". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2006-08-20. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  7. ^ a b Adam Smith (January 2008). "News Etc". Empire. p. 16.
  8. ^ Pamela McClintock (2006-01-30). "Warners goes on time trek". Variety. Retrieved 2006-08-20. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  9. ^ "Exclusive CS Featurette: 10,000 BC". ComingSoon.net. 2008-03-05. Retrieved 2008-03-05. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  10. ^ "Principal Photography Commences on the Epic Adventure 10,000 B.C, Directed by Roland Emmerich for Warner Bros. Pictures". Forbes. 2006-05-09. Retrieved 2006-08-20. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  11. ^ "10,000 B.C. - Movie Reviews, Trailers, Pictures - Rotten Tomatoes". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2008-03-07.
  12. ^ "10,000 B.C. (2008): Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 2008-03-07.
  13. ^ "10,000 BC Movie Review". TrendPimp. Retrieved 2008-03-15.
  14. ^ Lewis Beale (2008-03-02). "'10,000 B.C.' marks a new era of caveman flicks". Newsday. Retrieved 2008-03-07. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  15. ^ Glenn Whipp (2008-03-07). "Cheesy '10,000 B.C.' adheres closely to Ten Commandments of prehistoric movies". Los Angeles Daily News. Retrieved 2008-03-07. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  16. ^ Alex Markerson (2008-03-08). "10,000 B.C. E! Reviews". E! Reviews. Retrieved 2008-03-08. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  17. ^ Ty Burr, Globe Staff (2008-03-08). "Yabba-dabba-don't". boston.com. Retrieved 2008-03-08. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  18. ^ "'10,000 B.C.' roars to top of box office". CNN. Retrieved 2008-03-09.
  19. ^ "'10,000 B.C.'". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2008-03-14.

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