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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