Waterworld
Beyond the horizon lies the secret to a new beginning.
Country
Genre
Budget
$175 000 000
Box office
$264 218 220
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
Lawrence Gordon, Kevin Costner, John Davis, Charles Gordon, Ilona Herzberg, Andrew Licht, Jeffrey A. Mueller
Camera operator
Composer
Artist
Dennis Gassner, Steve Burg
Audition
Editing
Peter Boyle, Stephen Traxler
Whole Team (197)
Whole Team (197)
Short description
In a futuristic world where the polar ice caps have melted and made Earth a liquid planet, a beautiful barmaid rescues a mutant seafarer from a floating island prison. They escape, along with her young charge, Enola, and sail off aboard his ship. But the trio soon becomes the target of a menacing pirate who covets the map to 'Dryland'—which is tattooed on Enola's back.
What's left behind the scenes
- Kevin Costner flew to the film's premiere in Japan on his own plane. However, Tokyo authorities did not grant permission to park the plane at the airport. He left his plane at the Atsugi naval base in exchange for a screening of the film and his personal appearance during the showing.
- Upon its release, "Waterworld" became the most expensive film in history.
- Due to its relative box office failure, the film was nicknamed "Fishtar," a slight paraphrase of one of the biggest flops of 1987 – "Ishtar" (1987).
- Despite grossing $255 million worldwide on a $175 million budget, many consider "Waterworld" to be one of the biggest box office failures in film history.
- The film suffered greatly from piracy: long before its theatrical release, widespread pirate copies circulated – the film was stolen practically from the editing table, and the pirate version had a different ending.
- In the theatrical version, the protagonist has no name; throughout the film, he is referred to using pronouns. Later, the girl held captive by the bandits says, "He has no name, so Death will never find him." In the director's cut, the protagonist is given the name Odysseus at the end of the film.
- Approximately 2000 costumes were created for the film.
- The ruins of the city that the heroes see underwater are Denver.
- When the sailor flips through his National Geographic magazines in an attempt to find the meaning of the word “to regret,” the release date of one of the magazines is visible – January 1981.
- A group of fans, disgruntled that scenes with excessive violence, nudity, and profanity had been removed from the full version of the film, decided to restore justice and released the most complete version possible, known as the Ulysses Cut, with a runtime of 177 minutes.
- Approximately 30 boats were used, specifically modified for filming the movie.
- The atoll set was a quarter of a mile in circumference.
- The language spoken by Kevin Costner's character and the vagrant who steals lemons at the beginning of the film is Hindi.
- Initially, the studio wanted Robert Zemeckis to direct the film.
- Mark Isham wrote a soundtrack for the film that was not used in the final version.
- The tattoos on Enola’s back are written in traditional Chinese characters. The characters surrounding the arrow denote latitude and longitude. Although one of the characters is difficult to discern, it can be said that they are the coordinates of Mount Everest – 27 degrees 59 minutes north latitude, 86 degrees 56 minutes east longitude. In the film, the coordinates are: 27 or 28 degrees 58 minutes north latitude, 86 degrees 56 minutes east longitude.
- The portrait on the wall to whom Deacon refers as Saint Joe is Joseph Hazelwood, captain of the oil tanker "Exxon Valdez," which ran aground off the coast of Alaska, leading to a spill of millions of liters of oil.
- The "Exxon Valdez" tanker was repaired and renamed "Sea River Mediterranean."
- A quad mount – an anti-aircraft gun consisting of four Browning machine guns.
- Before filming began, Kevin Costner insisted that Kevin Reynolds direct the film, however, during filming, relations between Costner and Reynolds deteriorated significantly. Rumor has it that Reynolds left the project, and Costner finished filming as the director.
- In the scene where Deacon (Dennis Hopper) aims a rifle at Mariner (Kevin Costner), he first licks his thumb and wipes the scope, exactly replicating a scene with Gary Cooper in "Sergeant York" (1941).
- During filming, Kevin Costner lived in a villa with a butler, a chef, and his own swimming pool, a stay that cost $4,500 per night. At the same time, the majority of the film crew lived in condominiums where the heat was unbearable. Inadequate living conditions led to hostility on the set.
- The film was jokingly nicknamed “Kevin's Gate” as the picture significantly exceeded its initial budget, just like “Heaven’s Gate” (1980).
- Joss Whedon flew to the set at the last minute to rewrite some parts of the script. Joss would later call his work on "Waterworld" "seven weeks of hell."
- The film crew nicknamed Tina Majorino "jellyfish candy" after she was stung by a jellyfish three times.
- Kevin Costner was on set for 157 days, working 6 days a week.
- The director's cut of the film has a runtime of 176 minutes.
- The studio didn't spend a penny to find out what weather conditions are typical for the Hawaiian coast. Had research been conducted, it would have been discovered that winds of 72 km/h blow there, which subsequently led to numerous set damages.
- Anna Paquin was originally supposed to play Enola.
- Gene Hackman, James Caan, and Gary Oldman declined offers to play the Deacon.
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