(Costner produced but didn’t star in the latter.) During their fourth collaboration, the pair often butted heads over the creative direction of the film. Star Kevin Costner and director Kevin Reynolds worked on three films together prior to Waterworld: Fandango (1985), Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), and Rapa Nui (1994). Waterworld marked Kevin Costner and Kevin Reynolds's fourth collaboration. The script’s original writer Peter Rader said the idea for Waterworld was conceived as a Mad Max rip-off in 1986 following the success of 1981’s Road Warrior. Waterworld still gets compared to Mad Max today, and the similarities aren’t a coincidence.
Waterworld differs from the Mad Max series in some major ways (while Waterworld’s setting is an endless sea, most Mad Max movies take place in the desert), but they both imagine a primitive, violent future. Sixteen years before the premiere of Waterworld, George Miller launched an action franchise set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. The Waterworld script was inspired by Mad Max. Whether you love it or love to hate it, here are some facts about Waterworld in honor of the guilty pleasure movie's 25th anniversary. That, plus the troubled, chaotic production, added up to an inflated budget that overshadowed the movie’s critical and commercial reception.
Set in a post-apocalyptic future where melting polar ice caps have flooded the world, the 1995 film starring Kevin Costner features a unique setting that was incredibly expensive to shoot. Some viewers may be grossed out by the introduction of the Kevin Costner character, urinating and then distilling/drinking his own urine.Waterworld isn’t remembered for having the best acting or the most coherent screenplay, but it’s still memorable. The flamboyant lead villain, at one point, is made to look like a Christian evangelical preacher. Much cigarette smoking, and some drinking-carousing happens among the bad guys. Swearing includes one use of the F-word, multiple S-bombs.
A little girl is occasionally threatened with danger/death, usually via drowning. There's a gruesome threat of execution by drowning in some sort of sludge made from human decomposition, and a mutilated main villain demonstrates graphically that he's lost an eye. Frequent violence includes death by machine guns, spears guns, bombs, crashes, knife slashes, drownings, and fireballs. The heroine is glimpsed naked from the rear as she tries to use her body to bribe the hero (he declines the offer), and there's a near-rape of her by another man in a similar "business" arrangement. Parents need to know that this post-apocalyptic epic postulates a semi-barbarous future where everything is traded and bartered - including sex.
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