The film then pans beneath the clouds and to the sea surface, revealing a sleek yet dilapidated racing yacht, ramshackle and clearly having being repaired many times, yet still fully functional: the trimaran. Those who survived have adapted, to a new world. The polar ice caps have melted, covering the Earth with water. A narration (by an uncredited Hal Douglas) then begins: The film begins with the Universal Pictures logo of a globe, which we then see slowly being covered by water as the oceans rise. The following plot summary is the Ulysses cut of the film, the most complete version. Annie Costner as Dead Girl on Oasis Atoll.If Rader's early scripts had been green-lit, the film would have surely been a hard R rating unlike the eventual film which was more family friendly.Īfter various studios rejected it for being too expensive and likely impossible to film, it was eventually picked up by Universal StudiosĪfter various script touch-ups by David Twohy, Marc Norman and Joss Whedon, it eventually entered into pre-production. The original title was " The Tattoo of The Girl From Water's End". The franchise began with a film treatment written in the 1980s by Peter Rader, in the wake of the success of Mad Max: The Road Warrior, with Waterworld being a spec script pitched as "Mad Max at sea". The title was The Tattoo of The Girl From Water's End The cover to Peter Rader's second script revision, showing the original idea for Enola's tattoo.
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