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- 0:00G'day. That's right. It's that time again. Time for Cinema Yugen.
- 0:17Yes, welcome back. Yugenite Cinema Yugen Kentil back with you. Fan requested.
- 0:24Classic. Catching up on some of these friend requested classics
- 0:28been a bit busy with the the film threat stuff and other interviews but finally
- 0:33getting to them this friend requested classic is for peter rater who is the
- 0:39screenwriter behind my much loved film kevin costner's water world.
- 0:47Has its critics people think it's big dumb
- 0:50whatever it's mad max on water
- 0:53but what is incredible about it back in
- 0:562019 when this interview was recorded
- 1:00arrow had just brought out
- 1:03their absolutely splendid version of water world which included both uh cuts
- 1:14of the film both beautifully restored to all their magnificent glory.
- 1:18I think it's since come out on 4K.
- 1:20But another part of it, which was something I was very much looking forward
- 1:25to and contacted the filmmaker, Daniel Griffith, who made the behind-the-scenes documentary,
- 1:31the ultimate documentary on Waterworld Maelstrom, the Odyssey of Waterworld.
- 1:37And in talking with Daniel about that, I confessed to him during that interview,
- 1:45that one of my first interviewees that I reached out to when I started working
- 1:50with Podcasting Softly,
- 1:52almost 10 years ago, next year will be 10 years, I reached out to Peter Rader
- 1:58because I was a huge Waterworld fan and I thought if anyone I could get to speak
- 2:02to, I could get to speak to the screenwriter.
- 2:05And I reached out and never got back to me, but oddly enough,
- 2:08after I interviewed Daniel about a Maelstrom of the documentary on the Arrow release of Waterworld.
- 2:15Peter Rader heard us
- 2:17talking or the universe and he
- 2:21answered his message and he said sure so
- 2:25the conversation picks up with Peter Rader the screenwriter behind Waterworld
- 2:32it picks up where I say Peter your ears must have been burning yeah I think
- 2:39that Daniel did a great job You know,
- 2:41he approached us about three months ago or so,
- 2:45you know, explaining that he had been contracted to do a behind-the-scenes doc,
- 2:50you know, coinciding with the 4K release of Waterworld.
- 2:54And we're all a little hesitant, us who have been involved in the Waterworld
- 2:58story, because so much of the press coverage was kind of a shark-feeding frenzy, if you will.
- 3:05And so, you know, I said, well, you know, I'll do it if Kevin Reynolds does this.
- 3:11He had to go try to get Kevin Reynolds.
- 3:14But he ended up getting practically everyone. And I think he did a really great
- 3:18job because he was interested in telling sort of the creative story rather than
- 3:23the political story behind Waterworld.
- 3:26And, you know, it was, you know, creatively, it was quite, quite an undertaking.
- 3:31Nothing had been done quite like that.
- 3:34The idea of doing the entire movie and shooting it practically on water rather
- 3:39than on a stage or in a tank was audacious, you know? Yeah, totally.
- 3:45The reason I said your ears must have been burning is because in
- 3:49that in in said interview with with Daniel regarding his
- 3:53his documentary I mentioned that when I first started doing this podcasting
- 3:58thing a few years back and I was sort of at odds with what to do because they
- 4:03they sort of gave me they they didn't give me any parameters what they wanted
- 4:07and I just finished watching Waterworld and I thought I would love,
- 4:11I love Waterworld so much as a film.
- 4:14I really wanted to talk to someone and I figured, well,
- 4:17Who could I get, you know, and how do I get them?
- 4:21And so I just happened to see you on Facebook and I wrote a very long plea to talk to you.
- 4:29And I wasn't trying to explain that I wasn't interested in talking about anything
- 4:34negative, but mainly the creative journey that you took.
- 4:40Writing the film, and also the development of it.
- 4:45And it's ironic that the next morning you sent me a little message simply saying, sure.
- 4:52Yeah, you know, and it's funny because I don't even check messages that often
- 4:55on Facebook, but I just happened to see her.
- 4:59I was like, why not? Let's do this. It'll be fun.
- 5:02You know, I actually, I have a lot of, despite it being, you know,
- 5:07it was both one of the most wonderful experiences of my career and also one
- 5:12of the most horrific at the same time, you know.
- 5:14It was the first script I ever wrote. And I was so naive and so fearless that
- 5:20I just kind of went for it.
- 5:21And, you know, it was sort of a Cinderella story, you know.
- 5:25I didn't even have an agent when I wrote it. And, you know, then like three
- 5:29weeks later, I had like a major agency. I had a 2-2 script deal and,
- 5:35you know, and I was suddenly, you know, right in the middle of Hollywood Development now.
- 5:40And it was really exciting, you know. We have a little bit of crossover in the
- 5:45fact that the man who came into the picture, the man that sort of has been credited
- 5:51with giving you the challenge of Mr.
- 5:53Cravoy, was also associated with a friend of mine Matt Greenberg who wrote 1408
- 5:59and Reign of Fire at the time,
- 6:02and and he was Matt was like uh curious because every time he would go in for a meeting Mr.
- 6:09Cruel Boy was would tell him stories about how he's uh I've got this I've got,
- 6:14Matt would pitch ideas apparently and he'd say oh no I got that beat I got uh
- 6:19I got this guy working on this script called it's like Mad Max on water so you
- 6:24need to come up with something better than that.
- 6:27That's so funny, because he turned me down. Brad, that's so Brad.
- 6:32That's very funny. He turned me down flat. I mean, the oft-repeated story,
- 6:37which has been reported in the press a couple of times, I'll just give you the elevator pitch of it,
- 6:41was Brad was working for Roger Corman at the time, and he was hustling away,
- 6:47and it was the sort of AFM era where everyone was getting foreign pre-sales,
- 6:52and he said, I've got some South African money.
- 6:54If you come up with a Mad Max ripoff, I'll let you direct it.
- 6:58And there were two moral dilemmas in that query.
- 7:02One was, was I willing to accept the South African blood money because apartheid
- 7:07was still in full force at the time?
- 7:09And unfortunately, the answer to that question was yes, being a Hollywood whore,
- 7:15a young 20-something that totally wanted to break in.
- 7:19But the second question was, was I willing to do a ripoff of something that
- 7:22was so tired at that point.
- 7:24You know, everyone was doing the same old, same old, you know,
- 7:27post-apocalyptic, in the desert, cheap, rusty, Mad Max ripoffs.
- 7:31And, you know, I kind of thought about it and said, what if we spun it in a
- 7:36completely different direction? I said, let's do it on water.
- 7:39And then he just laughed me out of the room. He said, that's crazy.
- 7:42That would cost $5 million. I'm not going to make that movie.
- 7:45Get out of here. And then, you know, I, right.
- 7:48I love that. I love that story, the fact that he said, you know,
- 7:52$5 million, you know, and when looking at it in the context of how much it would
- 7:56eventually go on to cost, he was, he was, I don't know if I'd like to see that
- 8:01$5 million version or not.
- 8:03It might be a bit, it might be a bit scant.
- 8:09Yeah, you know, I've seen some of the press surrounding this 4K release,
- 8:14and there is so much admiration for the fact that, you know,
- 8:18almost all the stunts were practical.
- 8:20I mean, they actually did. They had the wave runners and they had the zip lines.
- 8:26And then, you know, I think that's one of the reasons that Waterworld has endured
- 8:31is because Universal has actually made buckets of money on Waterworld,
- 8:37just to set the record straight.
- 8:38Waterworld is actually one of the most successful franchises in Universal history
- 8:43because they turned it into a theme park attraction, which began at Universal
- 8:48City here in Los Angeles,
- 8:50and then has since expanded, I think it's to five different locations.
- 8:55So, Bonaca, Dubai, Florida, and I forgot what the fifth one is,
- 8:59but where they're running this water-rolled stunt show, you know,
- 9:04five times a day to an arena that seats, you know, 1,500 people.
- 9:09So they're raking in money.
- 9:11To this day, these stunt shows are playing all over the world.
- 9:15Yes, and plus there was a dearth of, like, merchandise, which I still cling to tenaciously.
- 9:22I mean, there was novelizations, there was comic books, video game,
- 9:27action figures. is, you know, they sort of, they didn't half-ass it in terms
- 9:32of, you know, putting the film out there.
- 9:36Yeah, yeah. I mean, you know, and there's kind of this kind of cult,
- 9:40you know, following at this point.
- 9:42I mean, you know, thank you so much for saying that you enjoy the film.
- 9:46But, you know, I honestly, that's the reaction that I mostly get.
- 9:51Most people say they really like the film, you know, even though it took this
- 9:57bashing in the press in 1995.
- 10:00But I think a lot of people have a lot of affection for that film. Yeah.
- 10:04And I mean, I, I have always, I mean, it's, it's more difficult today than it
- 10:09was then to avoid any of the press and reviews and things like that of,
- 10:15of, uh, movies before you see them.
- 10:18You know what I mean? Cause nine times out of 10 today, you've seen like a good
- 10:22chunk of the movie before you even get to the movie.
- 10:25I mean, there's trailers and TV spots and, and so much, you know,
- 10:30so much marketing back then it was easy to avoid.
- 10:33So going in, I had no idea of the bad, the bad press and, and all that sort
- 10:39of thing. I simply went to the movies as I often did.
- 10:42The only thing I'd seen was the, at that point was the teaser trailer,
- 10:45which I found was fascinating.
- 10:48And, you know, coming from the land of Mad Max, as I do, the idea of,
- 10:52of Mad Max on water was, was pretty darn appealing to me.
- 10:56I was like, that's, that's, that's great. that's so
- 10:59different because as you said by that point mad
- 11:02max you know a lot of italian rip-offs they
- 11:06were kind of just they were they'd kind of seen
- 11:08their day and they weren't getting any better and uh and so the idea of of a
- 11:16similar concept but in a completely different environment than some sort of
- 11:20uh you know post nuke or or post devastation wasteland desert,
- 11:27you know, ruined city sort of thing was really refreshing, I thought, anyway.
- 11:34Well, the irony is that if you do do a straight-ahead Mad Max rip-off,
- 11:42it actually can be a fairly inexpensive movie.
- 11:45I mean, all you need is a desert and a bunch of rusted-out vehicles.
- 11:49You don't need a lot of lighting equipment.
- 11:52You know, get some reflector boards and you're good to go and a handheld camera,
- 11:56and just bang it about a bit.
- 11:59But suddenly if you change that one element, you set it on water,
- 12:02it becomes whatever $175 million,
- 12:06action movie, which was I think the most expensive movie to date at that point
- 12:12and it held that record for five minutes.
- 12:16Until the Batman one with Schwarzenegger eclipsed us in two minutes later and
- 12:23then every movie is now that price.
- 12:26We live in an era of currently where there's a lot of talk about fake news.
- 12:31When I did finally come to read all of the material, like after I'd seen Waterworld,
- 12:37I wanted to know everything about it that I could because I loved it so much.
- 12:42Eventually there would come a book by a gentleman named Robert,
- 12:47James Robert Parrish, and he wrote a book simply titled Fiasco,
- 12:52A History of Hollywood's Most Iconic Flops.
- 12:55And of course waterworld and the postman and ishtar cleopatra popeye they're all in there.
- 13:04And you know in in doing research for these interviews and watching the documentary
- 13:10it was kind of nice to see some of those outlandish stories finally dispelled
- 13:16like for instance the most famous one is the set sunk.
- 13:20Right. Right. It's just one of those things, fake news, you know,
- 13:24one person spreads it and then everyone latches on to that, that rumor.
- 13:29Yeah. You know, that book was, was I quoted in that? I think that was one of
- 13:33the interviews that I was tricked into.
- 13:35If I was, you know, where the guy says, Oh, I want to write about Mark Rumpin.
- 13:38It's a book about the flops of Hollywood.
- 13:41But that's why we were a little cautious with Daniel Griffith.
- 13:47We were a little cautious before we did, but he ended up being a good guy.
- 13:52Yeah, you can rest assured. There's no direct quotes from you in it.
- 13:55I mean, he basically took probably the details from your interview,
- 13:59like how you came to write it, and then he's mainly concerned.
- 14:04There's obviously a lot of research in there that came from probably press at the time.
- 14:11I mean, there's a lot of... He seems to be more concerned with how much things
- 14:14cost and, you know, because,
- 14:16I mean, there's a rumor in there that must have been perpetuated at the time
- 14:20that the whole set-syncing thing cost the production something like $500,000 to refloat the set.
- 14:26I mean, there's some pretty exacting numbers that he got from somewhere,
- 14:30you know, and plus the other story,
- 14:35I think, that was dispelled the fact that Kevin Costner had like a $40,000 yacht
- 14:40or something to ferry him the 400 yards out from where he was staying to the
- 14:46set every day or something like that.
- 14:48So a lot of, you know, it paints, as most of these stories do.
- 14:55Sort of lumping these really great, some of these are really tremendous films,
- 14:59and simply turning them into tales of Hollywood hubris.
- 15:03Well, you know, the famous story about the creation of Century City out here
- 15:10in Los Angeles is that that was based on the disaster that we,
- 15:15from the 1960s, called Anthony and Cleopatra, the Liz Taylor,
- 15:20Richard Burton movie that, you know, cost probably much more than Wild World
- 15:25and real dollars at the time and was a disaster.
- 15:28And to pay for it, Fox had to sell part of its back lot and that became Century City now.
- 15:34Yeah, yeah. One of the key areas of Los Angeles where all the lawyers now have their offices.
- 15:42Yeah, so anyway, some burning questions I've had for you for a couple of years
- 15:47regarding your initial, I mean, I know that, you know, like you say in the documentary
- 15:52and like you've said, you know, this was your, it's, wow, it's kind of wild.
- 15:57Like there's, there's been some great stories of like first scripts from,
- 16:02from writers that I've spoken to.
- 16:04And this is a pretty like, you know,
- 16:08ostentatious, audacious, uh, debut for, for a script writer to,
- 16:13to, to have been the writer of this film that is both famous,
- 16:17infamous cult movie in some ways.
- 16:21So some of the, some of the concepts that I, I, that came through in the documentary
- 16:25and also from some reading about some of the stuff that you initially came up
- 16:31with that was obviously paired back for whatever reason.
- 16:36And it was brought up in the documentary, there was a lot, a lot of, pardon me,
- 16:40a lot more sort of religious type, a religious type theme running through it, like,
- 16:47and there's some elements still left of it, like, for instance,
- 16:52there's a pretty big one at the end where he's talking to the survivors before
- 16:57he goes to the D's to save Enola again.
- 17:01He says to them, you know, the world wasn't created in a deluge,
- 17:04it was covered by it, And someone yells out blasphemy, you know,
- 17:08I just wondered if there was the remnants of, of anything that you had in your
- 17:13initial draft regarding like,
- 17:15you know, the, the, you know, a type of a religious, you know,
- 17:20sort of like a, you know, something that, something that a type of religion
- 17:24or a type of, how should we say, spirituality that, that grew out of this, this society.
- 17:30Right. So when one creates these mythic alternate universes,
- 17:37and I have done a bunch of them, and almost all of them have not gotten made
- 17:42because they're so expensive,
- 17:43you have to write the entire universe.
- 17:48You have to create society from scratch and figure out all aspects of it,
- 17:52including religion and superstition and, you know,
- 17:57rituals and belief systems and social structure and all of that stuff needs
- 18:04to actually be worked out.
- 18:05Like, how does this world actually work? You know, how do they eat?
- 18:09You know, what currency do they trade?
- 18:12And all these types of things. So in that thinking, of course,
- 18:15was, you know, what are people's belief systems around the creation of the world?
- 18:21And there were, I wouldn't call it religious as much as mythic.
- 18:25I've always loved mythology and, you know, use it in most of the things that I write.
- 18:30So I was, you know, in one draft, we actually called dry land,
- 18:35it was called Ararat, you know, after the Noah's Ark myth, you know,
- 18:40where Noah's Ark landed, which is somewhere in Turkey.
- 18:45And, you know, there were some sort of hints at those stories of art in there,
- 18:52sprinkled throughout. But I also had a bunch of Greek mythology.
- 18:54At one point, the bad guy was called Poseidon, you know, yelled at Trident and
- 18:59sat on a clamshell throne.
- 19:02We kind of were searching for the tone for a while,
- 19:06you know, and then they sort of, you know, when David Tui came in,
- 19:09And they sort of went into this kind of, you know, rusty kind of more traditional tone.
- 19:17I was trying to be a little bit more fanciful in my original tone.
- 19:20Yeah. And I believe that, and this is prior to like some of the stuff that was
- 19:26in Pirates of the Caribbean.
- 19:27I believe you had some sort of concept where people were like more mutated,
- 19:32like something about a dude with a crab arm and stuff like that.
- 19:38Yeah, there was one of the henchmen of the villain had a crab arm,
- 19:45had an enlarged, that was attached to his body somehow, prosthetically, you know.
- 19:50And, you know, in addition to the Mariner's Guild and things like that,
- 19:53yeah, I thought it was kind of, it would be fun to experiment with that a little bit more.
- 19:57Just in terms of, you know, it's like eye candy.
- 20:01It's stuff that you never see in movies. That's what we're always striving to
- 20:05do, is to give you something, wow, I haven't seen that before.
- 20:08You know so those were there were some ideas like
- 20:11that so so was there any like further like
- 20:15as you're developing this story like where
- 20:18the mariner came from or is there he or is he simply like
- 20:21sort of the outlaw josey wales like you or high
- 20:24plains drifter he doesn't have a did you develop anything regarding like his
- 20:29past and where he came from and if there are sure you know sure there's there
- 20:34were a number of drafts that had flashbacks of how he lost his wife and child
- 20:40in a savage attack by the smokers.
- 20:44But ultimately, it was decided that it's more interesting to have him just be
- 20:47mysterious, kind of like Shane, which Shane for sure is a template.
- 20:52I mean, I always say that Waterworld is a Western.
- 20:55But Shane is just a mysterious kind of drifter who comes into town and,
- 21:01you know, and helps the homesteaders send off the bad guys, and then he disappears,
- 21:07he goes away, and that's sort of a mythic archetype, you know, the loner.
- 21:10Kind of more interesting sometimes that just spell out exactly what happened
- 21:14to him, you know what I mean? Right, and from your original.
- 21:18From your original draft, the whole thing of where they have like almost a burial
- 21:23ceremony in the film with this recycling thing where they dump them into that
- 21:28pool of goodness knows what it is, the toxic waste or something.
- 21:32Right, the organobar. Yeah. Yeah, that actually was not, and that was from another
- 21:38writer. I'm not even sure which writer.
- 21:40I don't know if David came up with that, but it was one of the writers that
- 21:43followed me that came up with that idea.
- 21:45Right, right. yeah because i was i
- 21:47was gonna say that this you know like what
- 21:50do i what was that stuff like you know because
- 21:54kevin's been i thought you know he spends
- 21:57out and i was sort of watching they go oh man what
- 21:59is that stuff and is it like corrosive or or something
- 22:03but he gets out of it all right and i thought man he's got to be glad to
- 22:06like jump in the water and wash that crap off whatever
- 22:09it is moon because it looked pretty gross but
- 22:13you know so i mean in the in the wake
- 22:16of of something like this which
- 22:20is like a huge beginning in you
- 22:23know into one's screenwriting career i mean it it wasn't the it wasn't the complete
- 22:30failure that as it was reported was there ever any talk of you know let's do
- 22:35another one funny you should ask david tui and i are you listening universal.
- 22:43David tui and i have been discussing pitching a sequel it's time for what it
- 22:48will do for sure yeah i mean just think of what's been reported just in the
- 22:52last few months i think there was a report in the last couple weeks that you
- 22:56know the water temperatures have been rising much faster than we thought,
- 22:59I think, you know, 400% faster or something.
- 23:02So, you know, Waterworld, actually, you know, my original draft of Waterworld
- 23:09was 86. So it was way ahead of its time in terms of, you know,
- 23:14this kind of global warming thing.
- 23:16Movie was eventually made in 95. But, you know, now, it's so a part of the sort of.
- 23:23Just the zeitgeist, this whole idea of, you know, water, the water temperature
- 23:28rising and the ice caps melting and what calamity that's going to cause.
- 23:33So, you know, we're thinking it's time for a sequel and we have a really interesting
- 23:37take on it, but can't tell you about that just yet. That's okay.
- 23:42Take all my money now. I don't care. I want to see it.
- 23:45Yeah, that's fantastic. but what
- 23:48you know i often when i speak to screenwriters they
- 23:52talk about things that survive like because
- 23:55you know you you did so much work and then of course
- 23:58as is often the case you someone else is brought into to to polish i think is
- 24:05the the polite word for it or you know or do some more writing because you've
- 24:11you've kind of reached your you know your battery life as far as being the writer
- 24:15on it and they bring on, you know,
- 24:17someone else or maybe someone who has a bit more of a name so they can put a
- 24:21name on the script that people will respond to because, you know,
- 24:26in most cases, sometimes a lot of these are first-time writers like you were then.
- 24:30But you said one of the things that survived all of the drafts and is in the movie is the peeing.
- 24:38It starts off with him drinking his own whiz.
- 24:40Yeah, that was the first scene in my script, and it never changed.
- 24:45It was in every draft of everyone's script, because it's such an iconic.
- 24:49You know, we, movies are a visual medium, and we always say, show, don't tell.
- 24:56Whenever you can show something with pictures rather than words,
- 25:00you know, that's so much stronger than using exposition and people's,
- 25:04you know, yak, yak, yakking about things like that.
- 25:06So I always thought, you know, I mean, there's the, is it Samuel Taylor Collard
- 25:12to the poem, Water, Water Everywhere, but not a drop to drink.
- 25:16Okay, how do you show that?
- 25:17Water everywhere. So the first idea was, well, you know, soon as Universal took
- 25:22the script, it's like, my God, let's use the loco, let's use the world.
- 25:26You know, let's actually zoom in on that planet and show that all the continents
- 25:30have disappeared. So that's, you know, and then go in and descend on the ship.
- 25:34And then the next thing is, you know, there's water everywhere,
- 25:37but it's all, you know, staling.
- 25:39It's a, you can't drink it. So what do you do about that?
- 25:42Well, what if he's got this device, this contraption? We show that right away
- 25:45and we show how precious, you know, every drop is.
- 25:49So I'm proud of that scene. I love that scene.
- 25:51And he played it to the hill too. Like he does like squeeze every drop out of
- 25:55it and even like licks the tap and make sure he gets like every little,
- 25:59every bit out of it that's possible.
- 26:01But I bring it up because that was that I bring it up because that was kind
- 26:05of like this nice memory because I mean, I saw it in the theater in the cinema when it first came out.
- 26:11And that was the bit where the movie lost my mother.
- 26:15My mother was with me. Well, everyone, my whole family was with me.
- 26:19And we're watching it. And she came out and she said, oh, my God.
- 26:22She said, what a way to start a movie, a guy drinking his own piss.
- 26:29And she said, that just did me in. And I thought, wow, so you only had like
- 26:34an hour and 40-something minutes left to go.
- 26:38But but she was that complete and she said
- 26:41did you like that baby i said i loved it i loved
- 26:44it she said well that's good that you liked it but oh she
- 26:47said that's terrible she said oh god she said i hope we don't live to to see
- 26:52that come to fruition see that come to fruition because i'm not too keen on
- 26:56the fact that i might have to one day you know whizzing a cup when i need like
- 27:00a you know to make a cup of coffee or something like that because no water.
- 27:06The thing is you can't please everyone my wife and I, my wife is a really talented
- 27:12filmmaker and we have a production company together and we make films together
- 27:16and I always tell her you know.
- 27:21On any given film, 30% are going to love it. 30% are going to hate it.
- 27:26And 40% in the middle, those are the people that you really need to please because
- 27:31you got the ones on this end, and you're never going to get the ones on that end.
- 27:36It's like the Olympics when they vote on the dives. They always eliminate the
- 27:40high score, the low score, and they take the average of all the other scores
- 27:44because sometimes it's all about sensibilities.
- 27:48Now and i guess it's totally well with
- 27:51your thing watching your mom's day yeah but no
- 27:54it's i i absolutely love the film and i
- 27:59have i have loved it since i've seen
- 28:01it i still love it today this is a marvelous release
- 28:05daniel's made a wonderful made the the
- 28:08document as i said to him was all in my heart of hearts if
- 28:10i ever got the opportunity i said i i hoped
- 28:13i always hoped to make or I hoped someone
- 28:17would make a film that told the the
- 28:20creative story not the not the
- 28:23media bash story behind this wonderful
- 28:26wonderful movie and whether it was call it
- 28:29fake call it luck call it karma not not
- 28:34uh not four hours after I finished talking to him you got my message uh and
- 28:39and I finally after three years got to do the interview that I was going to
- 28:43kick off this whole thing with and talk about one of my favorite movies of all
- 28:47time with the man who kicked it all off,
- 28:51Peter Rader. It has been an absolute pleasure to talk to you.
- 28:54Well, thank you so much. It was a pleasure to talk to you.
- 28:57Yes, Peter Rader, Waterworld. I love it. You should love it.
- 29:01It's a film of its time and of a scale that they just don't make movies.
- 29:10Like that anymore starting to sound like my mom and
- 29:13dad they don't make pictures like that anymore but it's
- 29:16true i'll put a link in the description check out
- 29:20waterworld especially in the best possible version that you can get hold of
- 29:24it and also daniel griffith's incredible documentary maelstrom the odyssey of
- 29:29waterworld it is the most complete and comprehensive documentary or document
- 29:35about the making of this extraordinary epic.
- 29:39It is The Road Warrior on Water, and it is awesome. I will always love Waterworld.
- 29:50Check the links in the description.
- 29:54And as always, my little Eugenites, thank you for listening to us on Spotify
- 30:00or wherever you choose to listen to your favorite podcasts.
- 30:03I'm Kent Hill, and until next time, you've been listening to Cinema Zero Game.