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Waterworld series in development

It flopped at the cinema but Kevin Costner's 1995 movie may get a sequel series.

Never let a flop movie get in the way of a TV spin-off?

A sequel series to 1995 movie Waterworld, starring Kevin Costner, is in the works.

The project, which hails from original producer is in very early development with Dan Trachtenberg (10 Cloverfield Lane) attached to direct.

Deadline reports the series would pick up with the film’s characters 20 years later. No platform is attached, but sources close to the project say it could potentially be set at Peacock.

Set in a post-apocalyptic future ravaged by climate change, the film revolves around a world that is covered in water. The polar ice cap has completely melted and the sea level has risen over 25,000 feet, covering nearly every inch of land. Costner stars as the Mariner, a drifter who sails the Earth in his trimaran. Costner also was a producer on the film, which was co-written by Peter Rader and David Twohy and directed by Kevin Reynolds. Jeanne Tripplehorn, Tina Majorino and the late Dennis Hopper also starred.

At the time, Waterworld was the most expensive film ever made. It opened to mediocre reviews, and was unable to recoup its massive budget at the box office, but it later became profitable due to video and other post-cinema sales.

Is this a good time to mention the giant 900,000 litre water tank being built at Docklands?

11 Responses

  1. It’s interesting the different comments you see in different places online. A lot of people, myself included enjoy the film and see a lot of potential in a follow-up. If enough thought is put into it, with the right budget and technology. This could be something cool if it ever got picked up.

  2. So desperate to get hold an ownable copyright, without creating anything original, that they are remaking even the worst stories ever told.

    The melting of ice sheets, which covered the Northern Hemisphere down into France and South of Minnesota, at the begining of this inter-glacial cause sea levels to rise by 120m. During the Cretaceous, Orovian and Cambrian periods when all of ice at the pole and glaciers melted due to volcanic warming, the sea level was only 80m higher than today. Raising sea level by 25,000 feet would require importing 2 or 3 times the total amount of water on Earth on the the planet.

  3. Waterworld’s screen time was much too long for the story told, the film ended up as an almost nonsensical and expensively made self indulgence for Kevin Costner, but he was a major cinema draw card at that time though his film career steadily went downhill afterwards. Reviving the theme of this movie is interesting, but will the budget needed attract a sufficient US audience while other more original dystopian shows are already available. Kevin looked like he did most of his own stunts in the movie, at his present age he might have to be less athletic in this prospective TV revival, not unless he gets that ever fit action man Robert Redford as his trainer.

    1. The Postman had a sort of TV reimagining in the formulaic and drawn out J.J. Abrams series ‘Revolution’. Battlefield Earth only got one star from Rotten Tomatoes, I don’t think any sensible producer would touch it with a barge pole.

    2. Battlefield Earth is a possibility as there was a computer animated one last year, it may even still be on Disney+

      Some big names were behind it as well like Quentin Tarantino wrote the Screenplay, Martin Scorsese produced it, Michael Cera and Hugh Jackman voiced it as well as having Executive Producer credits, plus Morgan Freeman and Christopher Plummer also voiced it.

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