It could find yourself taking 30 years—however Waterworld may lastly get the sequel it so desperately wished. Collider reviews {that a} streaming TV present tackle the notorious 1995 Kevin Costner movie is now within the works, which might decide up the story in that movie 20 years after its ending. 10 Cloverfield Lane and The Boys director Dan Trachtenberg is reportedly hooked up to direct.

“We’re not 100% sure on the approach to the show. But definitely, we’re in the building stages right now,” stated John Fox who, together with John Davis, is producing the sequence. Davis produced the unique Kevin Reynolds-directed movie which famously value $180 million in 1995—the most costly film ever on the time— however grossed solely $80 million home.

The present is being arrange at Universal Television and is reportedly near having a streamer in place, although Fox and Davis didn’t verify which. No one else is hooked up apart from Trachtenberg however issues are within the works. “Dan’s attached, we’re breaking the story now and we’re talking to a few different writers. And we should have a writer locked in, I would think, over the next couple of weeks,” Fox stated.

Waterworld tells the story of a future the place the polar ice caps have melted, protecting all of Earth in water. The most important character is “the Mariner” a half-fish, half-human (performed by Costner) who begrudgingly groups up with a girl and a baby (Jeannie Tripplehorn and Tina Majorino) as a result of the kid may need a map to dry land on her again—a map that everybody on the planet desires. Though the movie was a bomb upon launch, it’s saved a sure cult standing, in small half attributable to its lengthy presence on the Universal Studios Hollywood theme park, and largely to only how formidable and exquisite the film is, even when there are some vastly problematic parts.

This model of the story would hold that film in canon and simply decide up the story later. “We’re going to do the streaming version of that movie, the continuation of that movie,” Davis stated. “Twenty years later. All those people, 20 years later.” Now, whether or not meaning we see Costner once more because the Mariner appears uncertain. The movie ends with the heroes discovering dry land and the Mariner going again off to the water. Nevertheless, a cameo may very well be good. That is, if this present ever will get above floor.

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