{"id":24472,"date":"2025-07-26T21:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T21:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/24472\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T21:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T21:24:09","slug":"war-movie-throws-shade-at-jurassic-park-whilst-making-comic-con-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/24472\/","title":{"rendered":"War movie throws shade at Jurassic Park whilst making Comic Con history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During Primitive War&#8217;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<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0_GettyImages-2227073920.jpg\" alt=\"Primitive War cast at San Diego Comic Con.\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>War movie throws shade at Jurassic Park whilst making Comic Con history<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A new war film appeared to make a dig at Jurassic Park while making it&#8217;s <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.themirror.com\/entertainment\/celebrity-news\/comic-con-george-lucas-debut-1261429\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">debut at San Diego Comic Con<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">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<a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.themirror.com\/all-about\/comic-con\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\" comic book conventionLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> comic book convention<\/a> held in California. It marks the first time an independent dinosaur-centric action film headlined a panel at the annual event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Aware of its competition being Jurassic Park, which recently released <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.themirror.com\/entertainment\/movies\/jurassic-world-rebirth-rotten-tomatoes-1239755?utm_source=mynewsassistant.com&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=embedded_search_item_desktop\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">another film that left fans divided<\/a>, Primitive War, specifically its lead actor Jeremy Levin, made sure fans were aware the iconic franchise doesn\u2019t compare to the new horror movie.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.themirror.com\/entertainment\/celebrity-news\/hulk-hogan-sky-daily-net-1288386\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sky Daily&#8217;s net worth as husband Hulk Hogan dies tragically aged 71<\/a>READ MORE: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.themirror.com\/entertainment\/celebrity-news\/astronomer-denies-mystery-second-woman-1278242\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Astronomer gives update on mystery second woman next to CEO at Coldplay concert<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">On IMDb, the film\u2019s synopsis reads, \u201cVietnam. 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0_GettyImages-2226260262.jpg\" alt=\"Jeremy Piven at Comic Con.\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Jeremy Piven took a dig at Jurassic Park at Comic Con<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">During the panel, a new trailer was shown and during the clip, the phrase \u201cthis ain\u2019t no walk in the park\u201d was pictured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">After the teaser had ended, moderator Jacob Lyngle hinted at the saying\u2019s correlation to the title of <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.themirror.com\/entertainment\/movies\/jurassic-park-soundtrack-john-williams-1218541?utm_source=mynewsassistant.com&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=embedded_search_item_desktop\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jurassic Park<\/a>, saying, \u201cThere\u2019s a park I think of when it comes to dinosaurs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The panel had laughed it off at first but Jeremy eventually interjected, \u201cI 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The actor then took a slight dig at the film as he continued, \u201cWithout naming other films that are 100 million dollars, this movie costs $11 and and it&#8217;s all his imagination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cAnd this is something that I&#8217;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,\u201d he added, \u201cHe&#8217;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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0_Screenshot-2025-07-26-at-73547PM.png\" alt=\"A scene from Primitive War.\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Primitive War releases on August 21<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">While Jeremy stood up for his new project, Jurassic Park fans defended the film&#8217;s originality on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">On <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.themirror.com\/all-about\/twitter\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a>, one wrote, \u201cPrimitive War looks fun but I just hate the fact that they are reusing ILM\u2019s Jurassic World models and barely changing them, this is like Life on Our Planet all over again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Speaking about one of the teaser photos, another said, \u201cno because thats literally just the jurassic world trex with slight feathering on the neck.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A third added, \u201cShoutout to The Jurassic Games and Dinosaur Island for somehow having better and more fitting designs than the actual Primitve War movie\u2026 And being a low budget movie is not an excuse, these two were low budget too.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During Primitive War&#8217;s panel at San Diego Comic Con, Jeremy Piven made a slight dig at Jurassic Park&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,20359,134,344],"class_list":{"0":"post-24472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-comic-con","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}