During Primitive War’s panel at San Diego Comic Con, Jeremy Piven made a slight dig at Jurassic Park just before the new film made history at the iconic convention
War movie throws shade at Jurassic Park whilst making Comic Con history
A new war film appeared to make a dig at Jurassic Park while making it’s debut at San Diego Comic Con this week.
A month before the movie hits the big screen, the cast and crew of Primitive War took the stage on July 25 at the iconic comic book convention held in California. It marks the first time an independent dinosaur-centric action film headlined a panel at the annual event.
Aware of its competition being Jurassic Park, which recently released another film that left fans divided, Primitive War, specifically its lead actor Jeremy Levin, made sure fans were aware the iconic franchise doesn’t compare to the new horror movie.
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On IMDb, the film’s synopsis reads, “Vietnam. 1968. A recon unit known as Vulture Squad is sent to an isolated jungle valley to uncover the fate of a missing Green Beret platoon. They soon discover they are not alone.”
Jeremy Piven took a dig at Jurassic Park at Comic Con
During the panel, a new trailer was shown and during the clip, the phrase “this ain’t no walk in the park” was pictured.
After the teaser had ended, moderator Jacob Lyngle hinted at the saying’s correlation to the title of Jurassic Park, saying, “There’s a park I think of when it comes to dinosaurs.”
The panel had laughed it off at first but Jeremy eventually interjected, “I do want to say that you have to understand this. Luke [Sparke] is an independent filmmaker. The true sense of the word he, you know, is, this is all coming from him.”
The actor then took a slight dig at the film as he continued, “Without naming other films that are 100 million dollars, this movie costs $11 and and it’s all his imagination.
“And this is something that I’m very proud to be a part of, because, you know, he, as he alluded to, is not going to the big studio being handed anything,” he added, “He’s doing this all himself. So this is something that that I feel very proud to be a part of. And I think, you know, we should support more of this.”
Primitive War releases on August 21
While Jeremy stood up for his new project, Jurassic Park fans defended the film’s originality on social media.
On X, one wrote, “Primitive War looks fun but I just hate the fact that they are reusing ILM’s Jurassic World models and barely changing them, this is like Life on Our Planet all over again.”
Speaking about one of the teaser photos, another said, “no because thats literally just the jurassic world trex with slight feathering on the neck.”
A third added, “Shoutout to The Jurassic Games and Dinosaur Island for somehow having better and more fitting designs than the actual Primitve War movie… And being a low budget movie is not an excuse, these two were low budget too.”