Before the film began Steven Spielberg had warned Reynolds and Coster not to film on open water. Spielberg had had a production nightmare filming Jaws 20 years earlier, so he passed that advice along. His advice wasn't heeded, however, and the pair continued to follow their vision of a gritty and realistic film, feeling that an ocean shoot was essential in order to achieve it. The resultant delays along with the difficulties of filming on the ocean led to production overrunning and the budget increasing.
Numerous accidents and near misses also plagued the film. A stunt coordinator came up too quickly from a dive and nearly died from the bends. Tensions ran high as Costner was going through a divorce at the time, and this, along with the pressure of the production, spilled over into his partnership with Reynolds.
They had endless heated battles during production over creative decisions. By this point, Joss Whedon had come aboard to give the film an uncredited polish. It all took place on land, or on a ship, or whatever. The press became grimly fascinated by the stories floating out of the shoot, and there was the widespread assumption — perhaps even a perverse hope — that Waterworld would become a critical and financial disaster. In the end, the film was neither; Waterworld may have been expensive, but it offered genuine widescreen spectacle.
Skip to main content area. Join our mailing list Get the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox! Likewise Peter Rader, who was replaced by David Twohy at around the same period in By the time Waterworld had arrived in the UK just two weeks later, its status as the most expensive film ever made at the time, its well-publicised production problems, average-to-negative reviews, and comparatively poor domestic box office performance had all combined to leave it dead in the water.
More like this: - The most outrageous film ever made? With good reason, too, as Waterworld: A Live Sea War Spectacular has been key to Universal Studios theme parks ever since it debuted at the Hollywood site just a few weeks after the film was released.
The Waterworld film attraction, such as this one in Singapore, has been one of the most popular at the Universal Studios theme parks Credit: Alamy. A Harry Potter zone. A Transformers zone. Waterworld is just one movie. What does that tell you about the concept? It is so primordially appealing. While some of them can be as simple as a plain room, plenty have gone straight off the deep end. The biggest culprit was a huge 1,ton floating atoll that was created off the coast of Hawaii.
This specially built island measured a quarter-mile in circumference and used up all of the available steel on the Hawaiian islands, forcing producers to ship in more from California! Adjusted for inflation, Cleopatra remains one of the most expensive films ever made. Lavish sets were one of the biggest money pits; in fact entire backdrops were built and then never used as the botched production moved from London to Rome midway through shooting.
In total, there were 79 sets created for this film. They went big. But did you know that this beloved festive flick is also responsible for one of the most exorbitant movie sets ever created?
That set was a sprawling four-acre recreation of Bedford Falls complete with a three-block main street, 75 stores and buildings—including a working bank—and more than 20 fully grown oak trees.
They probably should have just gone with an actual town, but they needed to be able to control the snow.
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