Some of mankind's greatest achievements have come from forward-thinking men and women daring to ask an age-old question: What would happen if we combined this with that?

Combine the theater and the camera, and you get motion pictures. Blend computers and Walkman players, and you've got an iPod. Put a marshmallow and a chocolate bar between two graham crackers, and you've got some happy campers.

But what happens when you combine Vikings with American Indians?

You get "Pathfinder," an under-the-radar summer film that will soon attempt to meld two types of films together, much like the cult hits "Reign of Fire" (dragons vs. helicopters!) and "Army of Darkness" (medieval knights vs. shotguns!).

So what will it taste like when debut filmmaker Marcus Nispel mixes his action chocolate with the peanut-buttery goodness of historical reinvention? Lead actress Moon Bloodgood offered up a preview of the June 16 flick, along with the promise that it's going to be one tasty treat.

"Basically it happens about 400 years before Christopher Columbus landed," explained Bloodgood, who recently had a breakthrough role in the Paul Walker chart-topper "Eight Below." "['Pathfinder' is] a Viking story. It's not a true story, but there is evidence that the Vikings came before Christopher Columbus. They all somehow -- in a shipwreck -- die, and a boy is left behind.

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"He's raised with the natives," the Maxim magazine veteran continued. "And then the Vikings come back, and it's a whole fight between the natives and the Vikings."

Bows and arrows? Horned helmets and Thor hammers? Bloodgood agreed that the notion of mixing the two is as bizarre as it is rife with action-film possibilities.

"It's very intense, and you never really see movies about that," the actress said. "[It's the] kind of movie I'd want to go see."

"Doom" star Karl Urban plays the adult version of that left-behind baby, who evolves into a buff and war-ready man. When his Viking forefathers return to slaughter the American Indians who raised Urban as their own, the two genres get mashed up with a delirious sense of reinvention.

"My father is the pathfinder; he's the leader of the people," Bloodgood explained of her character, an American Indian named StarFire. "I'm his daughter, and I have a love story with Karl Urban's character. His name is Ghost. ... It's very epic."

Sometimes, the filming of "Pathfinder" got a bit too epic for its own good.

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"[We were] shooting outside every day, and it was really grueling at times. A lot of the crew got hurt," Bloodgood said. "People got hurt because of very sketchy conditions -- rain everywhere, rocks. We shot it in Canada, and someone got stabbed on accident in a fight scene. It was grueling. Some of the challenges were to just get this movie to happen and be realistic while fighting the weather and rain."

Summing it all up, the actress said it will be worth the stunts and weather problems once "Pathfinder" finally finds its path to the big screen.

"They weren't trying to make a story that was a true story, just a story that was compelling," she said. "Marcus, being the director that he is, didn't want to make it clichéd. ... He wanted to make sure that it wasn't just bows and arrows. Sometimes they were fighting with knives and other times with the Vikings, they had their bows and arrows too. ... And the Vikings [fight on] horses. They all used horses too. It's gonna look pretty menacing."

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