Films like Waterworld are an absolute rarity today and were at the time. The special circumstances during filming meant that the film became the most expensive ever at the time. You can watch the sci-fi spectacle on TV today.
What is Waterworld with Kevin Costner about?
The Earth was completely flooded in the not too distant future. People only live on floating citiesboats or ships. But some of them remain convinced that there must still be a place somewhere that wasn’t flooded – the legendary Dryland.
A tattoo on a young girl’s back may show the way there. That’s why the nasty smokers, led by the brutal Deacon (Dennis Hopper), are hot on her and her adoptive mother’s heels. Fortunately, however, it works the mysterious Mariner
(Kevin Costner) between the fronts, who reluctantly helps the young Enola and Helen and brings with him unexpected abilities.
At the time, Waterworld was the most expensive film to date and there are absurd reasons for that
Waterworld mixes apocalyptic atmosphere with sci-fi, pirate and western elements. You can pretty much imagine the whole thing like Mad Max on the high seas imagine, only with even more madness and even stranger characters. Of course, dangers not only lurk on the surface of the water, but also in the depths of the ocean.
Waterworld was actually only supposed to cost around $100 million to produce. But the budget then ballooned to over 175 million. Among other things, because director Kevin Reynolds and producer Kevin Costner Be sure to shoot on real water and not in a tank wanted. As a result, according to Forbes, expensive sets were destroyed by a storm.
Waterworld was just the beginning of the end of Kevin Costner’s careerwho maneuvered himself into the sidelines with Postman and Wyatt Earp. But now he’s back, and very successfully. We owe this primarily to the Yellowstone universe and the Horizon films that are currently following it.
TV or stream: When and where is Waterworld coming?
You can watch the end-time epic this Saturday, October 5th at 9:40 p.m. on ZDFneo lead to heart. It lasts until 11:40 p.m. and a repeat is not planned for now.
But of course you also have the option of watching the post-apocalyptic sci-fi film online. This works, for example, with MagentaTV, Apple TV, Maxdome or Amazon.
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