Visual Effects: Sean Phillips (digital effects supervisor) Chris Edwards (digital imaging supervisor) Andre Bustanoby (3D Tracking).Īdditional Visual Effects: Composite Image Film, E-Film, Pacific Ocean Post, 525 Post Production, Editel, OCS Freeze Film. David Silva, Melanie Grefe, David Hallinan (assistant directors) Sean McCarron (2nd unit assistant director). Thanks to extremely good overseas box office, where it pulled in about $166 million (nearly double its domestic gross), 'Waterworld' managed to earn back its cost.Īdditional credits: Scott Robertson, L. The film cost $175 million, which works out to $1.3 million per minute.A Universal and Lawrence Gordon presentation of a Gordon Co./Davis Entertainment Co./Licht/Mueller Film Corp.Released theatrically in the USA July 28, 1995.Then the Smokers kidnap Enola, turning the Mariner into a one-man killing machine desperate to rescue his human map.Īnd only if he succeeds will they ever know the feel of solid ground beneath their feet. But as the trio struggles to decipher the map, they must also try to escape a band of filthy, reckless thugs known as 'Smokers', led by the maniacal, one-eyed Deacon. At first the Mariner has a rocky relationship with his two passengers then he realizes that the tattoo on Enola's back is a map leading to the never-seen 'Dryland'. But his loner existence changes when a woman named Helen and an orphaned girl named Enola save his life, and the Mariner reluctantly agrees to take them along with him. Roaming the high seas is the Mariner, a surly, selfish man/fish mutant with no name. In this desperate society one must distill one's own urine for drinking water, and land is only a myth people dream of. The future has arrived, and it brings a world composed entirely of water, due to the melting of the polar ice caps.

Waterworld 1995 movie cast