It began to be known as "Kevin’s Gate," referencing the infamous Heaven’s Gate, the film that bankrupted MGM Studios in the '70s. And production got so out of control and heated that Reynolds left the project after filming was done but before it was released. The budget ballooned to $175 million, which was the highest in Hollywood history at the time. Costner suffered injuries when he was caught in a squall. Waterworld, filming in Hawaii, immediately started running into trouble. It’s always hard when you’re shooting on water.Ĭostner was thrilled about the project - a Mad Max-type character does sound like a lot of fun to play - and he brought on his friend and collaborator Kevin Reynolds, with whom he had made Fandango and, especially, Robin Hood, a massive hit. boats! You see, in the year 2500, the world is entirely made up of water, which may have been a comment on global warming and rising sea levels at first but ended up being mostly just a very difficult and expensive set to make for a motion picture. Specifically, the idea that you could have a post-apocalyptic landscape, except instead of long stretches of road with cars zooming down it, you’d have. Why was it a big deal at the time? The original idea of Waterworld, if you can believe this, was inspired by Mad Max. It’s tough to imagine something like that ever happening again. It is absolutely remarkable that the movie was made, and that a major studio bankrolled it. Thus, this week, we look at 1995’s Waterworld, which came out on July 28, 1995. When you are on a hot streak like that, you are, without question, set up for a fall. His run from 1987 to 1992 is truly remarkable: The Untouchables, Field of Dreams, No Way Out, Bull Durham, JFK, Robin Hood, A Perfect World, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, and, of course, Dances With Wolves, the movie that won an Oscar for Best Picture. Costner was the Hollywood everyman straight from central casting, able to be all things to all people: a little funny but not too funny, a little cynical but not too cynical, bland but not too bland, handsome but not too handsome. This is going to be impossible to explain to anyone under the age of, oh, 30, but you really have to believe me: There was a time - quite a long time, actually - in which Kevin Costner was the biggest movie star in the world. Welcome to This Week in Genre History, where Tim Grierson and Will Leitch, the hosts of the Grierson & Leitch podcast, take turns looking back at the world’s greatest, craziest, most infamous genre movies on the week that they were first released.
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