July 28th, 1995, Universal Pictures released Waterworld, the Kevin Costner led post apocalypses feature film which was set up to become a massive disaster from day one. Starting pre-production all the way back in the early 1990s, Waterworld would go from a simple $60 million dollar budgeted action film to a nightmare production which shot the budget up to $175 million dollars. That leap in budget price made Waterworld the most expensive movie ever made for the time. The jump in budget comes from the hellish 166 days of shooting which included fights between cast and crew, near fatal stunts and a nasty hurricane season that sunk an entire massive set. By the time of release, the backstage drama was so known within the industry that journalists were already writing Waterworld off as a guaranteed box office failure. Luckily enough, Waterworld somehow recouped it's budget, but the damaging legacy of the film haunts Universal, director Kevin Reynolds and Kevin Costner to this very day.
This week, stand up comic and artist Steve Posten jumps aboard the U.S.S. BOMBED for a massive dissection of one of the most notorious action productions in American film history. Hope you didn't like Kevin Costner before this episode cause you're certainly not gonna like him after this podcast.