So where did this rumor come from and why has it lived so long? Because the rats were trying to leave a sinking ship.
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Unless Waterworld figured out how to make photorealistic hair a full decade before Pixar figured it out for Monster's, Inc., then removed it in the internet bootleg I watched, there’s no way this is true. The first movie to attempt CGI hair was 1994’s The Flintstones and it looked terrible. In fact they couldn’t do it if they wanted to.
One of the most famous rumors is that Costner demanded they use CGI to fix his receding hairline.Īnd this is where things get interesting and I must engage in INTERNET DETECTIVE WORK:Ĭostner’s hairline is clearly receding in Waterworld and there’s no obvious 90’s CGI on his head. His marriage publicly fell apart, maybe due to an affair with a hula dancer. While the rest of the cast and crew stayed at cheap motels or even un-insulated huts Costner rented himself a tropical bungalow. And a lot of it seemed to come down on Costner. The schedule ballooned from 90 days to 200. If anybody had to go to the bathroom, the whole shoot had to stop while the pooper was driven by boat to a barge full of porta potties 3 miles away.
It could take hours to get a simple close up. You’re trying to do sound, lighting, makeup, elaborate camera tracking shots, all while everything is moving. And he kept getting stung by jellyfish.īut on top of that was the simple insanity of filming on water. That was the least of his problems, he was assuming more and more of the cost of the film. Costner himself almost died when a helicopter got to close to him during a close up sailing shot.
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Professional Surfer Laird Hamilton was brought in to do stunts for Costner, then went missing, only to be found 40 miles from the set, sucked out to sea by a riptide. When the location manager tried to get them to stop the reaction was so harsh she had to leave the state. The locals gouged them for food and basics. They had to cut about 30 pages from the script because another huge set sunk for good. The set sank and had to be raised and repaired, doubling the cost to $22 million. By the time the set was done it was hurricane season and they hadn't spent any money researching the weather. The largest set, a quarter mile around floating city called the Atoll used up all the steel metal in Hawaii so they started flying it in from California, which was so heavy they had to make a local runway longer. Costner ignored him and pushed on with a budget set for $65 million, or two million more than Jurassic Park.Īnd the problems started to show pretty quick. Jaws had nearly been a career-ending disaster.
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Plus you can just CGI everything now right? Right? Costner had little conversation with Steven Spielberg who flat out told him not to do it. Studios wanted to keep it mid-budget but after Jurassic Park landed they started to see sequel and toy money spin in their heads. Costner liked Waterworld and had the clout to get the money it needed. He gambled $15 million of his own money, winning Best Director and Picture, and making him rich as god. Costner was a successful leading man, but he had just pulled of the Leading Man's dream of successfully producing a passion project when he produced this weird little script called Dance With Wolves. To say that Kevin Costner was hot in 1992 is a bit of an understatement. The script was handed around Hollywood for a while until Kevin Costner took an interest. Rader figured the whole “post Apocalyptic cars” was played out so he came back with “Post Apocalyptic Boats." Corman laughed, saying you’d need $5 million to do something like that. The story of Waterworld started in 1986 when an aspiring young screenwriter named Peter Rader took a meeting with low budget producer Roger Corman who wanted to ride the Mad Max trend. Unless you are Kevin Costner in 1995 when he decided to break rule two and break the hell out of rule three by making Waterworld. They’re unpredictable, they require special equipment, and two of the three might poop on George Clooney. If you’re making a movie on the cheap it can’t have any animals, children or water. Also follow him on Social media on TikTok and Instagram. You can listen to his American History podcast Kings of Democracy anywhere podcasts are a thing. Andrew Merklinghaus is a writer and former monorail conductor from Seattle.
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