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).
A sequel was considered, titled "Punan the Destroyer," but the idea has been canceled.
SPOILDER: Along with writer/actor Scott Gardenhire, actor/musician Nocona Ridge and actress Daina Unger all returned for the retconned scene as older versions of their characters.
Season visibly change between certain scenes (namely after "Punan" rescues the "Damsel in Distress" (ShaLeigh Christie) from the ghouls. Writer/actor/director Marcus Pruitt edited it to where the colors would begin to shift, and passed it as "the closer they got to Lord Sacron's castle, the more things would look dead and cold."
Spoofs "Conan the Barbarian," "The Lord of the Rings," and "Fire and Ice," the animated film by Ralph Bakshi.