Even before Waterworld came out, who had not heard the behind-the-scenes story that played out through the likes of Entertainment This Week and the TV Guide gossip columns like a colossal real-life soap opera – Kevin Costner’s marriage break-up following a fling with a dancer on the set his near-death encounter caught up in a squall while tied to the mast of his trimaran the film’s massive set-backs, including the collapse of a multi-million dollar floating set during a hurricane the firing of director Kevin Reynolds during the last weeks of shooting and how this split up the long time friendship between Reynolds and Costner and Costner’s taking over the director’s chair in an effort to save the film. In these days of cinematic hardsell and mega-franchising, Waterworld is an intriguing example of the public’s prurient fascination with what happens when those in the media spotlight trip up almost entirely overwhelming a project.
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