Influences of Other Works
Glenn Whipp of the Los Angeles Daily News draws numerous comparisons between 10,000 BC and other films in the prehistoric and historic film genre, especially One Million Years B.C. and Apocalypto. A. O. Scott of The New York Times compared it to John Ford's film The Searchers and the animated film Ice Age.
At the 2008 Wondercon, Emmerich mentioned the fiction of Robert E. Howard as a primary influence for the film's setting, as well as his love for Quest for Fire and the book Fingerprints of the Gods.
The story also closely resembles that of the great Indian Epic, Ramayana.
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