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It got picked up as a mid-budget film by production company Largo Entertainment, who attempted to bring down costs by re-using old costumes and sets Universal Studios would handle the film's distribution. The film originally started out as a low-budget apocalyptic film for the studio of Roger Corman, but as soon as the decision was made to situate it mainly on sea, Corman had to pull out due to budget concerns. When the script was toted around Hollywood, more and more parties became interested, and subsequent rewrites by David Twohy and Joss Whedon turned the original script into a much more serious action-adventure film.
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Also, Enola's tattoo would give instructions on how to find Water's End (as Dryland was called in his script) by looking for the mountain's outline as a shadow on the moon during a lunar eclipse. He would command a group of subordinates who had all sorts of mutations, like lobster claws, and he punished them by slapping them around the face with a wet fish. In Rader's screenplay, the Mariner was a human and the chief defender of the Atoll, whose embarrassing secret was that he enjoyed painting pictures of seahorses Helen had two of her own children along with the adopted Enola, and the Deacon was called Neptune, a campy, silly villain who dressed up like King Trident and sat atop a throne on the Exxon Valdez. Rader then conceived of an apocalyptic story set on the sea, with a lot of mythic and religious overtones. One producer working under Roger Corman said he could get a South-African investor to help with funding if Rader could come up with a good Mad Max (1979) rip-off. The original screenplay by Peter Rader was pitched as a children's adventure film, when he was looking for a project he could direct himself. All these limitations usually allowed for only 5 or 6 setups on each day of filming, significantly extending the shooting schedule.
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Filming had to stop repeatedly so people could be ferried to portable toilets on a barge anchored near the shore. To make matters worse, about 30 additional boats used by the cast and crew were needed for lighting, cameras, make up, catering, costumes etc., none of which had bathrooms. Local weather conditions usually deteriorated in the afternoon, so most filming had to be stopped after 3 or 4 PM. There was limited space on the sets for cameras and their operators to move, and they also had to compensate for the motion of the sea. Turning the set or the trimaran so that the camera wouldn't pick up land was also very time-consuming. Scenes taking place inside the 2,204,622.62 pound floating atoll set could be filmed just off the coast, but for scenes taking place on open water, it took hours to bring the set and ships at least 2 miles off the coast to get a view that offered 270 degrees of open water. This Ulysses Cut was remastered in high-definition though, created with original footage rather than lower-quality broadcast material.įilming on water came with a lot of unforeseen problems. In an unexpected turn, the original distributor officially sanctioned this fan-edit by releasing it in a box-set with the other two versions.
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It was compiled from several broadcast versions, containing all of the additional footage from the TV version while restoring the previously censored parts.
A fan-edit of the film, called 'Waterworld: The Ulysses Cut' (named after a restored scene at the end), was later made in an attempt to create the most complete version of the movie. Being a TV special, this version was also censored for violence and language.
The additional scenes also tie up several loose ends in the theatrical release. ABC later broadcast an extended TV version that restored almost 40 minutes of deleted scenes, which explain more about the world, the people who live there, the Smokers' religious beliefs and their ability to refine crude oil. The preferred 3-hour cut of director Kevin Reynolds was drastically edited back to a 135-minute theatrical version by Kevin Costner and the studio, probably in an effort to recoup the film's inflated $175 million dollar budget (since Costner's previous 3-hour movie Wyatt Earp (1994) had been a box office bomb).
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