Punan the Barbarian

In 2010, writer/actor Scott Gardenhire refused to film anymore on the film unless he and writer/actor/director Marcus Pruitt (with whom he was in a band called Rotgut Swine) began working on their second album (their first had come out in 2009). The film was shelved in favor of working on the album, which ironically Gardenhire never showed up to record or write anything, resulting in the album also being shelved, resulting in tensions, which resulted in this film being canceled. It wasn't until 2020, years after the passing of actors Jonathan Boswell, Devin Winkler, and Levi Kook, that Pruitt edited what scenes he had. The scenes moved Gardenhire, and he decided they should finally finish the film in its current way (elderly "Punan" telling the story--the scenes that were lost or never filmed--to his children and grandchildren).