“The Last Savage” Teaser Poster
Liam O’Donnell’s Beyond Skyline, the sequel to the Brothers Strause’ panned sci-fi flick Skyline, wasn’t supposed to be a good movie, but somehow, it ended up being good. We can only speculate if the film’s modest success was because of the buzz surrounding the addition of Indonesian martial arts stars (Iko Uwais and Yayan Ruhian) from The Raid and The Raid 2 –or if O’Donnell simply knows how to deliver the goods as a filmmaker.
Whatever the case, while filming Beyond Skyline, O’Donnell fell in love with everything about Indonesia, and now, he’s getting ready to tackle The Last Savage, which he describes as “a cinematic love letter to the pulp adventures of Tarzan, the post-apocalyptic world of Mad Max, and the vicious beauty of the martial art Silat”.
In The Last Savage, a large-scale and violent event in the natural world leaves a boy stranded on a remote island where he’s raised by tigers. When hunters kill his adopted family, he is forced to fight in a deadly new arena.
The film is currently in development, but we expect to hear some updates soon (considering the director’s relationship with Uwais and Ruhian, expect one of these guys took part in the film). Until then, don’t miss our review for Beyond Skyline (via FCS).
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Liam O’Donnell…the new Gareth Evans? 😛
How is a boy raised by tigers supposed to be a trained martial artist exactly? And isn’t this plot similar to Ong Bak and Tom-Yung-Goong, just with dead “tigers” replacing the stolen elephant or statue? Wait don’t tell me, they kidnap the boy then make him train to fight for entertainment. I hate “tournament” style movies.
The tiger thing also likely reveals who’s going to be the star. Iko Uwais trains a tiger style, if i remember correctly. I was excited when the title mentioned Silat but this is looking to be another generic film, and it seems every director and their grandma is hiring Iko to star in their next VOD release.
Beyond Skyline has impressive production for an independent film, as did its prequel. But when it came to how they used Iko Uwais himself, it was horrible. Iko is a real martial-artist with a proven track record on film, and yet the movie was filled with shaky-cam every time he fought. You couldn’t see a thing.
There were tons of scenes with moments where I thought if only they did it slightly differently or left it out it would have been far better. And what was with the Buddhist monks they had running around near the end during the alien attack despite the location clearly being Indonesian? They couldn’t just keep it contemporary Indonesia like it is? The first film didn’t have pagan priests running around in the US did it?