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Gary Oldman told GQ magazine that he rejected the Deacon role for one reason: he flicked a coin and [...]	D
Kevin Costner did the bungee jump for real on a set, although a short stunt double was used as a sta [...]	D
Anna Paquin was the first choice to play Enola.	D
The cost of the massive Atoll floating set, 1,000 tonnes and a quarter of a mile in length, was $22m [...]	D
Mark Isham was initially hired to compose the score, but it was not recorded and only demos were com [...]	D
It is rumored that director Kevin Reynolds and Kevin Costner had a huge squabble over the film, resu [...]	D
Inspired by racing trimarans built by Jeanneau Advanced Technologies' multi-hull division Lagoon; a [...]	D
Writer Peter Rader shelved his original screenplay after a fellow screenwriter read it and made seve [...]	D
The film had a tie-in video game released on the Nintendo Virtual Boy, although it sold poorly due t [...]	D
Kevin Costner and Christian Slater - who appeared together in Robin Hood - Principe dei ladri (1991) [...]	D
The boat Kevin Costner used in the movie was sold to Turkish businessman Hakan Uzan. After the Uzan [...]	D
Filming on water came with a lot of unforeseen problems. Scenes taking place inside the 2,204,622.62 [...]	D
Prior to Titanic (1997), this was the most expensive movie ever produced.	D
The four-machine gun chassis in the atoll assault scene is called a Maxon Mount. It is comprised of [...]	D
Kevin Costner personally invested $22 million of his own money into the film.	D
Final on-screen film appearance of Rick Aviles.	D
The entire slaver faction was written out when the set was destroyed.	D
A French science fiction graphic novel called Aquablue, created in 1988 by writer Thierry Cailleteau [...]	D
The film originally started out as a low-budget apocalyptic film for the studio of Roger Corman, but [...]	D
The atoll set was over 1/4 mile in circumference, the size of a football stadium, and contained a mi [...]	D
Samuel L. Jackson turned down the role of Deacon in order to be in Die Hard - Duri a morire (1995).	D
Jack Kehler and Kim Coates also co-starred in L'ultimo boy scout - Missione: sopravvivere (1991).	D
Jeanne Tripplehorn and Tina Majorino would later go on to star together in the HBO series Big Love ( [...]	D
The trimaran used in the movie had to be custom-made, because although it was based on existing trim [...]	D
Because Kevin Costner was on bare feet all the time, moleskin was attached to the soles of his feet [...]	D
The movie is considered to be a futuristic pirate flick. The Smokers are pirates. Instead of treasur [...]	D
If the icecaps melted, the oceans would only rise a few hundred feet; not enough to flood civilizati [...]	D
The Hydro that The Mariner, Nord and some other characters drink in the movie is purified fresh wate [...]	D
Kevin Costner did much of the stunts featuring the Mariner on the zipline himself, much to the disma [...]	D
The major problem during the shoot was the cast and crew becoming seasick all the time. Almost every [...]	D
Largely due to the input of several big parties (including production company Largo Entertainment, U [...]	D
In an interview with David Letterman shortly before the film was released, Kevin Costner said that o [...]	D
Kevin Costner and Kim Coates became good friends after this movie and later worked together on Terra [...]	D
When viewed from the air, the outline of the Atoll resembles a Horseshoe crab.	D
Trailer narrated by Hal Douglas.	D
The teaser trailer, narrated by James Earl Jones, was hastily compiled so it could appear before Str [...]	D
Contrary to popular belief, there isn't enough ice in either pole to cover the earth if it all melte [...]	D
The sunken city visited by the Mariner and guest consists of elaborate miniature buildings shot in s [...]	D
The child, Enola, wears Birkenstock Rio sandals.	D
Kevin Costner was going through a bitter divorce during filming, which Kevin Reynolds felt probably [...]	D
The 'Deez' (Exxon Valdez) was realized on screen in several ways. The upper deck was built full-scal [...]	D
Before Deacon fires his rifle at the Mariner, he first wets the front sights of the rifle like the r [...]	D
Jeanne Tripplehorn and Tina Majorino nearly drowned on their first day of filming when the trimaran [...]	D
Screenwriters Peter Rader and David Twohy acknowledged that George Miller's Mad Max trilogy was a hu [...]	D
Seventeen years after their falling out and after this movie was released, Kevin Costner and Kevin R [...]	D
Computer-generated imagery (CGI) was still prohibitively expensive at the time, and could be used on [...]	D
Jeanne Tripplehorn refused to strip for this film, even though she had done nude scenes before (and [...]	D
Tina Majorino was nicknamed "Jellyfish Candy" by the crew after she was stung three different times [...]	D
Costume designer John Bloomfield estimated that over 2000 costumes were made.	D
Sets were destroyed by hurricanes. Rebuilding them doubled the budget of the movie.	D
The most remembered line from the film, "Dryland is not a myth; I have seen it", is never spoken in [...]	D
The Mariner wears a piece of a printed circuit board as a necklace.	D
Co written by David Twohy, who cited Interceptor - Il guerriero della strada (1981) as a major inspi [...]	D
For the Japanese premiere, Kevin Costner had his private plane flown to Tokyo. He failed to get perm [...]	D
Two locations were considered to accommodate construction and filming of the enormous sets: the sout [...]	D
Jack Nicholson was considered for The Deacon, but was deemed too expensive. Nicholson's friend Denni [...]	D
The original screenplay by Peter Rader was pitched as a children's adventure film, when he was looki [...]	D
Director Kevin Reynolds asked Steven Spielberg for counsel, as he had experience with filming on wat [...]	D
Ginger Peterson, a Hawaii resident and the film's location manager, said local contractors, from cat [...]	D
Screenwriter David Twohy later went on to write and direct the Riddick films starring Vin Diesel as [...]	D
Kevin Costner was trained by an Olympic swim champion for his underwater swimming scenes, and Laird [...]	D
Kevin Costner would later star in another post-apocalyptic flick in which he would also play a namel [...]	D
While shooting on location in Hawaii, Kevin Costner befriended a bottlenose dolphin he affectionatel [...]	D
Filming shut down 3 times due to hurricane alerts.	D
The preferred 3-hour cut of director Kevin Reynolds was drastically edited back to a 135-minute thea [...]	D
Kevin Costner was on the set 157 days, working 6 days a week.	D
According to the producers, the continuous stream of bad press took a huge toll on the film. Almost [...]	D
Though widely called a box office bomb upon its release, even nicknamed "Kevin's Gate" and "Fishtar" [...]	D
Although it is never confirmed in the theatrical cut that Dryland is actually Mount Everest, the num [...]	D
Kevin Costner nearly died when he got caught in a squall while tied to the mast of his trimaran. The [...]	D
It has been reported that Roger Corman passed on making this film because he felt it could not be ma [...]	D
When Charles Gordon and Lawrence Gordon took the film into production under their production company [...]	D
This is the second of three films starring Kevin Costner, that James Newton Howard has composed musi [...]	D
The map tattoo on Enola's back is in Chinese traditional characters (or Japanese Kanji). The charact [...]	D
The language Kevin Costner speaks to the lime stealing drifter early in the movie is Hindi.	D
Gary Busey and Laurence Fishburne also turned down the part of the Deacon.	D
Kevin Costner's stunt double was washed out to sea and several extras nearly drowned.	D
In the extended cut of the film (the Ulysses Cut), at the end when The Mariner is about to set sail [...]	D
Although the exact year that the film takes place is never mentioned, production designer Dennis Gas [...]	D
The floating atoll set used up all the available steel in the Hawaiian Islands. When more was requir [...]	D
The child's name, Enola, is "alone" spelled backwards.	D
LOGO GIMMICK: The Universal Studios logo, the planet Earth, was given a close-up, and as it got clos [...]	D
The cast had to be spray-tanned before each day of filming, because their characters were supposed t [...]	D
One script (later rejected) called for a second moon to appear in the sky, intimating that the catac [...]	D
A PC game based on the film Waterworld: The Quest for Dry Land was released in 1997. The only actors [...]	D
In the original ending of the film, it was explained that The Mariner isn't leaving simply because h [...]	D
Gene Hackman, James Caan and Gary Oldman all turned down the role of the Deacon.	D
Where possible, sets were made largely of wood that was painted to make them look weathered and rust [...]	D
After Kevin Costner showed interest in the film, he insisted that his friend Kevin Reynolds be given [...]	D
Joss Whedon flew out to the set to do last-minute rewrites on the script's third act aboard the Smok [...]	D
Jeanne Tripplehorn couldn't bear to go near a swimming pool for months after completing the lengthy [...]	D
The harpoon gun (Greener light harpoon gun) used by the Mariner is the same model used by Quint in J [...]	D
Kim Coates later went on to star in another post apocalyptic flick - Battaglia per la Terra - Una sa [...]	D
Stunt coordinator Norman Howell got hit with decompression sickness during filming of an underwater [...]	D

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