Warners has picked up the rights to Roland Emmerich’s planned prehistoric epic 10,000 BC, which was previously put into turnaround by Sony.
The film plots the journey of a young tribal mammoth hunter at the dawn of modern man. Emmerich plans to start lensing in the spring in South Africa. The budget is expected to be more than $100 million, which may be part of the reason that Sony turned the project around. And Warners, having developed The Day After Tomorrow but ultimately passed, are clearly more willing to get involved this time.
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