Aardman Animation (the outfit behind
Wallace & Gromit and
Chicken Run) have been trying to make a caveman comedy for well over a decade now. Back when they had a deal to produce films with DreamWorks Animation, one of their proposed projects was a feature called Crood Awakening that John Cleese had written the script for. Once Aardman left DreamWorks, the latter studio turned the film into
The Croods while Aardman finally got around to delivering a caveman project (albeit without the involvement of John Cleese) with
Early Man, which was released in the first few weeks of 2018 to underwhelming box office results.
