Universal reportedly intends to produce a reboot of Waterworld in serial format. In any case, this is what John Davis and John Fox, the producers of the 1995 film, announced during an interview with
Collider.
If the project is still in its infancy, the series would take place 20 years after the end of the footage, featuring the same characters fighting for their survival in a sunken world where glaciers have melted. Finally, the two partners think of Dan Trachtenberg to whom we owe 10 Cloverfield Lane for the realization. In any case, it is a daring project from the start when we know the immense disaster that the blockbuster with Kevin Costner had been.
The story of excess
If there is one well a shipwreck that marked the box office in the 1990s, it is that of Waterworld. At the time, the film’s budget exploded due to a host of production issues, including a storm that ravaged the film sets off the coast of Hawaii, reaching $ 175 million. A record for the time. But by the time of the big leap into theaters, the footage had fizzled out, taking several weeks to even pay off before generating barely $ 100 million in profit, taking Kevin Costner’s career with it. and most of the people involved in the production. A real textbook case which would then push productions to favor synthetic sets in the studio instead of opting for full-scale production.
But more than 25 years apart, Waterworld seems to resonate particularly with our present as the effects of climate change are no longer fictitious. In the end, it is the story of a double excess and a double fiasco, since the society devastated and eaten away by the sea salt of Waterworld represents precisely the future of the one who had spent lavishly and despite common sense to produce this film.