If "Waterworld" reminds you a lot of the " Mad Max" movies, that's not a coincidence. He called himself "the world's highest-paid stenographer" and called the experience "seven weeks in hell."ĥ. " The Avengers" filmmaker said he was essentially tasked with putting Costner's own ideas into the screenplay. One of those uncredited script doctors was Joss Whedon. Before the film's release, some 36 writers would tinker with it, though only Rader and Twohy received credit.Ĥ. David Twohy (" The Fugitive") was hired to polish Rader's script. By the time it landed at Universal as a Kevin Costner vehicle, it was budgeted at $65 million, a figure that would grow to $100 million before cameras rolled - and $172 million by the time of "Waterworld"'s premiere.ģ.
But the company ultimately decided it couldn't make the film for under $3 million, so it sold Rader's script.Ģ. Peter Rader's original "Waterworld" script, written in the late 1980s, was commissioned by Roger Corman, the legendary B-movie producer of classic sci-fi/exploitation drive-in movies (and more recently, SyFy channel monster mash-up movies). Initially, "Waterworld" was to have been the opposite of a big-budget blockbuster. In honor of the film turning 20 years old today, here are 20 facts you may not know about "Waterworld."ġ. Costner's career as a bankable leading man has never really recovered.
Punsters were calling the movie "Fishtar" and "Kevin's Gate." By the time "Waterworld" finally came out, its underwhelming reception was a self-fulfilling prophecy.
That reputation wasn't really fair (the movie eventually broke even), but it was the then-most expensive movie ever made.įor a year before the film's release, stories leaked out about the waterlogged production's near-disastrous setbacks and its ego clashes between star Kevin Costner and his hand-picked director, Kevin Reynolds. Released 20 years ago this week (on July 28, 1995), the post-apocalyptic epic about the survivors of a drowned Earth became known as one of the most bloated flops of all time. It's been two decades, and still, the waves from the tsunami that was " Waterworld" have not receded.
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