Trailer Watch: 10,000 B.C.

Independence Day and Day After Tomorrow director Roland Emmerich takes his FX magic to 10,000 B.C. This trailer is viscerally exciting. It looks like Mel Gibson's Apocalypto meets Jean-Jacques Annaud's 19881 classic, The Bear Quest for Fire. It opens March 7.

Next, Emmerich goes back to the apocalyptic future with 2012 which Sony grabbed in a bidding war.

This is an older 10,000 B.C. trailer:

Comments

[actionman]

Normally I am totally down for movies like this but this one looks kinda lame. The CGI isn't flawless looking like it was in The Day After Tomorrow. Roland Emmerich makes some of the most dumb yet entertaining flicks but this looks like a pg-13 version of Apocalypto. I don't know...maybe I will see it...but probably on dvd. I also don't think it's going to do too well...it will open big and fall fast, just like Jumper.

[actionman]

And both Apocalypto and The Bear are masterworks, something I doubt 10,000 BC is.

[Peter Debruge]

Make that APOCALYPTO meets CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR -- it could go either way. We've discussed naming Camilla Belle and Steven Strait as Variety "actors to watch" on the basis of their talent (neither made the cut), so maybe that potential will shine through Roland Emmerich's schlockier tendencies.

[anne thompson]

schlocky but almost always entertaining! We're not talking high art here. I agree that both Apocalypto and The Bear belong on a higher plane.

[Christian Johnson]

I'm with Anne on this one. Yes, APOCALYPTO and THE BEAR are wonderful. I am particularly fond of the ominous closing scene in APOCALYPTO. All I could think of when we finally see the Spanish landing was..."Run, runner, run!" Naturally, that would be said while doing a Michael York impersonation.

As for 10,000 BC, it has a SABRETOOTH TIGER. Let me repeat that. It has a SABRETOOTH TIGER. I waited through an hour and a half of Jane Seymour mopping in SINBAD AND THE EYE OF THE TIGER to see a sabretooth tiger on the big screen, of course I had Harryhausen's awesome Minoton to distract me. Between the tiger and Steven Strait, I am very much looking forward to this film. At worst, it will be a hecklefest. At best, it will be entertaining.

Jody, my wife, has been high on Camilla Belle since she met her on the set of CHUMSCRUBBER.

[actionman]

Who the hell is Steven Strait?

I'd be excited about the tiger if it looked real...it doesn't...so I am not.

Camilla Belle is indeed gorgeous.

[Micha10589]

I haven't seen The Bear, but is it possible you are rather referring to Annauds La Guerre du feu (aka Quest for Fire, War of Fire) from 1981? It took place in prehistoric times and had mammoths...

[anne thompson]

you are absolutely right! The Bear is a wonderful movie, but it's not specifically caveman era. I will fix.