Lookup any list of the biggest, most embarrassing flops and Waterworld is sure to be near the top. The $170M post-apocalyptic film starred Kevin Costner in a world where the polar ice caps melted, flooding the entire planet. But the only thing that sunk was the film’s box office, making it a punchline and Costner’s most humiliating failure…well, at least until The Postman was released. Nobody has come near the property since then, but producer John Davis is ready to change that.
Speaking with Collider, Davis, who is also behind Disney’s Jungle Cruise and Dan Trachtenberg’s secretive Predator 5 movie, is developing a Waterworld series for streaming. Not only that, but it will be set 20 years after its predecessor and have Trachtenberg directing.
It’s unclear where the series would land, however. For something the scope of Waterworld, you’d probably expect Amazon or Netflix to throw the most cash at it. But then again, it’s Waterworld, and the track record ain’t great. Anybody who has heard of it now is only due to the bad reputation, not because of fondness or desire to see it return.
