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“I had the joy of saying, ‘Hey Bjarke, when you threw mad shade on Kevin Costner, I bet you didn’t think the screenwriter would be called up next!'” laughs the writer today. Ingels didn’t realise that the next speaker was Rader – the original writer of Waterworld. Rader recalls that hotshot Danish architect Bjarke Ingels led the discussion: “At the end of his presentation Bjarke said, ‘As you can see, this is very well thought-out plan… not a disaster like Kevin Costner’s Waterworld!’” Rader was there, alongside architects, engineers and developers, to discuss the building of a prototype island city – a concept being quite literally floated as a solution to rising sea levels and overcrowded coastal cities. Fittingly, however, Costner went on to make millions from a company he created that made machines that could separate oil and water, so in a way, he finally profited from the environmental themes that Waterworld had been preaching all along.In April 2019, writer and filmmaker Peter Rader attended a round table at the United Nations headquarters.
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The film, though initially deemed a flop, eventually clawed back a modest profit on home video almost a decade later, although Costner was unlikely to have seen much of it. Read more: Inside Marvel’s Howard The Duck movie In short, the movie was a disaster, but one that Costner was heavily invested in – he personally provided over $20 million dollars to keep the movie afloat. Filming on water proved incredibly costly, as did floating sets, as did high speed wind damage. Not since the days of Cleopatra had a Hollywood movie’s budget spiralled so out of control. Time and time again, he’d stump up his own cash for movie projects no one else wanted to touch – Dances With Wolves, Open Range and The Postman were all made off the back of Kev’s own coin.
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(Photo by Universal/Getty Images)īack in his glory days, Costner was a serial self-financier. Kevin Costner behind bars in a scene from the film 'Waterworld', 1995.
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The bonkers sci-fi – with its weird dreadlocked aliens and overt Scientologist themes – could only manage to recoup around $30 million of its $100 million budget, making it the first true mega-flop of the 21st century. So convinced was John Travolta that the L Ron Hubbard-penned sci-fi epic was going to be a success, he poured five million dollars of his own money into it – he even labelled it “like Star Wars, but better”. Read more: The most overpaid movie roles ever And Travolta has never had an action movie do under $35 million.” That’s ex-dry cleaning mogul turned movie producer Elie Samaha there, fatally over-estimating the pull of his Scientologist chum and underestimating his audience’s ability to smell a turkey in the offing. “There’s no way I’m going to lose if the movie does $35 million domestically.
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(Photo by Warner Brothers/Getty Images)Īmount lost: $5 million, plus undisclosed salary reduction John Travolta in scene from the film 'Battlefield Earth', 2000. Jerry Lewis – The Day The Clown Cried (1972) The movie was not a financial success by any means – it was never meant to be commercially viable after all – but it remains an incredibly powerful piece of work, of which Oldman rightly continues to be proud.
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Hot off blockbusters The Fifth Element and Air Force One, Oldman spent over a million dollars of his own money to direct Nil By Mouth, an excoriating kitchen sink drama about spousal abuse starring Ray Winstone and Kathy Burke. However, Gary Oldman had a movie in him that was under his skin, and he was prepared to take a financial hit to get it made. In Hollywood, the term ‘passion project’ usually means ‘trumped up star vehicle’ and almost always sinks under the weight of said movie star’s ego. Oldman is in Cannes to present his first movie as a director "Nil by Mouth" which is in competition during the International Film Festival. British actor Gary Oldman poses at the Carlton beach in Cannes, French Riviera, Saturday May 10, 1997.