After battling aliens and the weather in his Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow, director Roland Emmerich is now all set to battle mammoths and other pre-historic animals.

In his latest film 10,000 B.C., which is set to release this Friday, the director takes us back in time to an age when civilisation was at its infancy. The story is about a young hunter D’Leh (Steven Strait) who goes after a party of slave traders to save his lover, the pretty Evolet (Camille Belle). D’Leh and a group of hunters form the search party.

As they venture in search of the lady, they come across men from various civilisations who have been affected by the warlord’s men. The group grows in size and becomes an army when the warriors meet up with the warlord for the final encounter. En route, they must also face the wrath of nature’s elements, right from avalanches to predators.

In the climatic battle, D’Leh has to not just save his love but also entire civilisations that have been ravaged by the slave traders.

As is usual with every Emmerich film, 10,000 B.C. is also a special effects spectacle that will take us to the distant past. The film is produced by Warner Bros. Pictures in association with Legendary Pictures. The screenplay is written by Roland Emmerich and Harald Kloser and exquisitely shot by the director of photography Ueli Steiger. The film is supposed to kickstart the blockbuster season in Hollywood.

10,000 B.C. is being distributed in India by Warner Bros and will be releasing on March 7. The film is also to be dubbed in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu and will be released simultaneously. Get ready for this blast from the past.