Emmerich developed obsession with the weather during filming of `` 10,000 BC '' Film was shot in New Zealand 's South Island , South Africa and Namibia . The film is based on a true story about an American couple who were stranded for two weeks at sea after their boat sank off Cape Town. When the Revealed cameras dropped in he was working on his grunts . Miniature pyramids , ' God 's palace ' , made in Munich then shipped to Namibia .
Emmerich developed obsession with the weather during filming of `` 10,000 BC '' Film was shot in New Zealand 's South Island , South Africa and Namibia . The film is based on a true story about an American couple who were stranded for two weeks at sea after their boat sank off Cape Town. Miniature pyramids , 'God 's palace ' , made in Munich then shipped to Namibia .