The delays also pushed the scheduled 96 day shoot well into triple digits, finally wrapping at day 166. The water-based shoot proved wildly expensive in itself, and a handful of weather-related shutdowns drove the $100 million budget (already high for a mid-'90s film) to around $175 million. Costner played the film’s hero, the mysterious Mariner, who saves a young girl who holds the secret to finding the last vestige of dry land left on the globe. Set hundreds of years in the future, the film is basically an epic poem set in a world where global warming has covered the Earth in water and turned the idea of land into a myth. ![]() ![]() Waterworld was directed by Kevin Reynolds and starred Kevin Costner (who also took a key role in the film’s final form), developed from a 1986 script originally written by screenwriter Peter Rader. With Waterworld streaming now on Peacock, we take a look back at how the project started as something very different than the epic would-be-blockbuster that would eventually make it to screen. ![]() But we almost got a much weirder version, made on a shoestring budget, without Kevin Costner - all from the studio of legendary small-budget sci-fi auteur Roger Corman. With a sinking budget due to production costs and delays, the 1995 post-apocalyptic sci-fi film Waterworld became the most expensive movies ever made at the time of its release.
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