It's pitch time at a movie-studio story conference, and two junior execs simultaneously jump up on the table and announce: "This one has everything! A desperate battle for survival! Mother Nature on a rampage! Heroic attempts to achieve the impossible! A psychological crap shoot with zillions at stake! And, at the center, a stark battle between two strong-willed men. It's got the potential for great movie melodrama. We call it The Making of Waterworld."
The location nightmare of Universal Pictures' adventure movie has been assiduously chronicled: how the Waterworld shoot in Hawaii was threatened by crew injuries and tsunami warnings; how...
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