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Bond on CinemaAuthor: Ward W. Bond
Veteran Television host Ward W. Bond brings you the in-depth interviews with the top film directors, producers, screenwriters, editors, composers, actors and more. Learn about the art and beauty of filmmaking. Meet award winning film professionals as they tell their side of the creative journey of movie-making. The Bond on Cinema podcast is interviews with filmmakers for filmmakers. Bond on Cinema is also available on Prime Video and YouTube Language: en Genres: After Shows, Film Interviews, TV & Film Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Director Luke Sparke Shocks Hollywood with the Success of Independent Feature PRIMITIVE WAR
Episode 364
Saturday, 24 January, 2026
Luke Sparke, an Australian writer-director known for action/sci-fi films like Occupation: Rainfall, Scurry, Bring Him to Me, and the recent dinosaur/war mashup, Primitive War. Blending his background in costume and prop work for large military productions (like Spielberg's The Pacific) with a passion for genre cinema, aiming for big-scale, effects-driven features with military authenticity and heart, often wearing multiple hats as producer, editor, and designer. He specializes in large-scale action, sci-fi, and horror, often independently producing films that Hollywood studios deemed too risky. Today, we are taking about his incredible independent blockbuster PRIMITIVE WAR, which is placed in Vietnam during the war in 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. The star-studded cast includes Jeremy Piven, Tricia Helfer, Nick Wechsler, Ryan Kwanten to name a few. #featurefilm #independentfilm #newfilm #jurassicworld #jurassicpark #dinosaur #trex #filmmaker #filmmaking #interview #bondoncinema #filmdirector #cinematography #australia
