For a fantasy film of this type I thought it was excellent with an amazing peek at prehistorical possibilities and film effects.
The story is set in the prehistoric era and was directed by Roland Emmerich and stars Camilla Belle and Steven Strait. The mammoths in the movie were based on elephants and fossils of mammoths, while the sabertooth tiger was based on tigers and ligers -- a lion/tiger hybrid. The sounds made by the sabertooth tiger in the movie are based on the vocalization of tigers and lions.
Emmerich opened casting sessions in late October 2005. 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. 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. The casting of unknown actors also helped keep the film's budget down.
In 10,000 BC, a tribe of hunter-gatherers called the Yagahl live in a remote mountain range in the Urals and survive by killing woolly mammoths. D'Leh, a young hunter, has a companion named Evolet, an orphan who was found by the tribe. D'Leh, while hunting mammoths, manages to kill one and wins the "White Spear". He also wins Evolet in marriage, but feels he deserves neither since he killed the mammoth by accident.
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