
RELATED: Deep Blue Sea 3 Is Just Another Dumb Shark Movie Shortly after that, Universal Studios bought the script and Waterworld was ready to begin filming. The project then sparked the interest of Costner and Reynolds, who had fallen out over creative issues on Robin Hood but patched things up in an attempt to make this new movie.

New Horizons immediately rejected the movie because the low-budget movie studio knew it would cost too much to make for them, so Rader shelved it throughout the '80s.įinally, in 1989 producing brothers Larry and Chuck Gordon from Largo Entertainment purchased Rader's script. The original script was envisioned for Roger Corman's movie studio New Horizons, as writer Peter Rader pitched the idea to them as Mad Max, but on water. The movie saw Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves director Kevin Reynolds reunite with star Kevin Costner for a big-budgeted Universal Pictures action extravaganza. July 28 marked the 25th anniversary of the premiere of Waterworld, one of the most notorious movies of the 1990s.
