They're after Enola because she has a map to the mythical "Dry Land" tattooed on her back. That is, until he meets the young girl Enola (Tina Majorino) and her guardian Helen (Jeanne Tripplehorn), who are being pursued by a villainous pirate group called the Smokers, led by the Deacon (Dennis Hopper). Our rugged hero, the Mariner, played by Kevin Costner, is a mutant with gills behind his ears who spends his time sailing around, looking after only himself. People live on small, man-made floating constructs, having long forgotten what life was like on land. The action flick takes place many, many years in the future, after the polar ice caps have melted and turned the entire planet into a giant ocean. Waterworld became synonymous with an enormous belly flop (perhaps unfairly), but all these years later, it's gaining new life on Netflix. The water-themed Mad Max 2 copycat from 1995 had a miserable production process from start to finish, which became a self-fulfilling prophecy as it dissuaded people from seeing it in theaters. Only a few days later, his wife of 16 years and the mother of his children, Cindy Costner, announced their “amicable” divorce.Waterworld's reputation was doomed before it ever hit theaters.
Of course, Costner was also married and had kids. His stuntman also nearly died during underwater scenes, after coming up too quickly from a dive and suffering from decompression sickness, also known as “the bends” which can be fatal.Īnd, would you believe, it actually gets even worse.ĭuring filming, reports linked Costner to a stunning - and married - Hawaiian hula dancer. It reportedly took nearly half an hour for rescue crews to reach and untie him.
Then there was an incident where Costner almost died during a sequence when the craft he was tied to drifted out to sea. But it did.Ĭostner’s adorable little child co-star was stung by a jellyfish while filming, a hurricane hit Hawaii and sunk the boat set that had to be rebuilt, and the original composer was fired because Costner didn’t like his music, costing the production company bucketloads of money. You would think it couldn’t have gotten much worse for the big budget flick. That way he can always be working with his favourite actor and favourite director”. Are they riding jetskis or dolphins? Wouldn’t be surprised if it was the latter tbh.Īfterwards the veteran director made a snide comment about Costner to Entertainment Weekly: “In the future Costner should only appear in pictures he directs himself.
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