Cast: Steven Strait, Camilla Belle, Cliff Curtis, Joel Virgel, Affif Ben Badra, Mo Zinal, Nathanael Baring, Mona Hammond, Marco Khan, Reece Ritchie, Joel Fry, Omar Sharif, Kristian Beazley, Junior Oliphant, Louise Tu'u, Jacob Renton, Grayson Hunt Urwin, Farouk Valley-Omar, Boubacar Badaine, Joe Vaz, Charles Baloyi

Director: Roland Emmerich
Writers: Roland Emmerich, Harald Kloser
Producers: Christopher Nolan,
Charles Roven, Emma Thomas
Associate Producers: Jordan Goldberg, Karl McMillan
Executive Producers: Thomas Tull, Michael E. Uslan, Ben Melniker, Kevin De La Noy
Art Direction: Robin Auld, Michael Berg, Jules Cook,
Hayley Easton, Marc Homes, Fleur Whitlock
Casting: Mali Finn, Liz Mullane, Christa Shamberger, Mito Skellern
Costume Design: Renée April, Odile Dicks-Mireaux
D.O.P.: Ueli Steiger
Editor: Alexander Berner
Music: Harald Kloser, Thomas Wanker
Production Design: Jean-Vincent Puzos
Set Decoration: Emilia Roux

From director Roland Emmerich comes a sweeping odyssey into a mythical age of prophesies and gods, when spirits rule the land and mighty mammoths shake the earth. In a remote mountain tribe, the young hunter, D'Leh (Steven Strait), has found his heart's passion - the beautiful Evolet (Camilla Belle). When a band of mysterious warlords raid his village and kidnap Evolet, D'Leh is forced to lead a small group of hunters to pursue the warlords to the end of the world to save her. Driven by destiny, the unlikely band of warriors must battle saber-tooth tigers and prehistoric predators and, at their heroic journey's end, they uncover a Lost Civilization. Their ultimate fate lies in an empire beyond imagination, where great pyramids reach into the skies. Here they will take their stand against a powerful god who has brutally enslaved their people.

Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Filming Locations: Namibia; Queenstown, New Zealand; South Africa; Thailand
MPAA Warning: Sequences of Intense Action and Violence
Production Budget: $75 million
Production Companies: Warner Bros. Pictures, Legendary Pictures, Mark Gordon Productions, Centropolis Entertainment, The Mark Gordon Company
Production Schedule: 24th April 2006 - October 2006
Web Sites: Official Site - The IMDb

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- Tim Shadbolt, the Mayor of Invercargill, New Zealand, was involved in a serious motor accident while pitching Southland, NZ, as a shooting location for this movie

- Director Roland Emmerich and composer Harald Kloser originally penned a script for 10,000 BC. When the project received the greenlight from Sony Pictures, screenwriter John Orloff began work on a new draft of the original script. When they dropped the project due to a busy release calendar, Warner Bros. picked up the project in Sony's vacancy.

- 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.

- 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.

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