Directorial debut of Barney Burman, Academy Award winning special effects and character creation artist.
In an interview, Barney Burman revealed that the main idea for Wild Boar came about when his cowriter, Andrew P. Jones, suggested that they made a movie like "Planet of the Apes, but with pig people," which sent Burman's imagination running wild. Burman didn't originally set out to direct the film, but the further that the story went, the more that he got excited about the project, stating, "I'm doing this, regardless of who joins me, regardless of where the money comes from."
The movie has been in the works since 2014.
Director Burman said in August 2018 that they are currently talking to distributors in order to get the movie out to as many people as possible.