The Primevals

The Primevals (2023)

Timing: 1:31 (91 min)

5.3/10
7

0/10
260

5.8/10
1400

All about film

Video 1

Photo 5

Actors and characters

Release date

2023-07-23

Country

United States

Production

Full Moon Features, Castel Film

Genre

Science Fiction, Fantasy

Budget

$0

Revenue

$0

Website

https://www.fullmoonfeatures.com/

Director

David Allen

Actors

Leon Russom, Richard Joseph Paul, Walker Brandt, Robert Cornthwaite, Kevin Mangold, Juliet Mills, Tai Thai
All actors and roles (7)

Scenario

Producer

Charles Band, Vlad Păunescu

Operator

Adolfo Bartoli

Composer

Artist

Audition

Perry Bullington, Robert MacDonald

Editing

All team (10)

• The film originated from Dave Allen's presentation short film "Raiders of the Stone Ring." Facing numerous difficulties in developing the short film into a full-length feature, Allen rewrote the script. This happened when it became known that Disney was working on "The Island at the Top of the World" (Robert Stevenson, 1974) with a similar plot. One year later, Allen and special effects expert Randall William Cook began working on the first draft of the script for "Primitives," but soon Cook became an animator on Michael Ray's science fiction film "Laserblast" (1978), and Allen pitched his project to producer Charles Band. Band liked the idea and agreed to become the producer of the future film, which was initially scheduled for release in 1980, as the quarterly magazine Cinefantastique informed readers in a comprehensive article in the winter 1978 issue. Unfortunately, the project proved expensive, so it remained in Band's plans throughout the 1980s. Funding was only found in 1994. Two years were allocated for animation, and the premiere was scheduled for 1996, but Band began to have problems, Allen became ill and died, and the project was shelved. In 2018, Band found $40,000 for the project, and work on the film was finally completed at the end of 2022.
• Special effects experts, including Chris Endicott, kept the clay figures of the natives used in the stop-motion animation for years after the film's release.
• 5% of the original negatives were lost. The lost material was found on the working film copy, but the 35mm film had so many scratches and other defects that much of it had to be restored to an appropriate level of quality.
• Two versions of the film were edited – one for general release, and another, the director's cut, for Allen's home collection. It is 7 minutes longer than the release version and includes scenes absent from the version for general release.