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Peter Rader is known for Waterworld (1995), The Last Legion (2007) and Grandmother's House (1988).
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Official Website of Author. PETER RADER. Playing to the Gods. Watch Trailer. Buy Now. More Info. BIO. Peter Rader has worked as a film and television writer for 20 years. His first script, Waterworld, was produced by Universal in 1995.
As Director of Creative & Business Affairs at Counterpoint Films, an award-winning film, TV and web production company founded by Oscar & Emmy nominee Paola di Florio, Rader has overseen...
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- Kevin Costner Rose to Superstardom in The 80s
- Dances with Wolves Won Costner Oscars For Best Picture and Best Director
- By 1992, Costner Was One of The Most Successful Actors Ever
- Reynolds Quit Prince of Thieves During The Editing Process
- Waterworld Was Conceived as A Low-Budget Mad Max Rip-Off
- In The Original Script, The Mariner Was Named Morgan – and He Had A Pet Horse
- Second Screenwriter David Twohy Made The Mariner A Mutant with Gills
- Peter Rader Wanted Harrison Ford as The Mariner
- Kevin Reynolds and Kevin Costner Didn’T Want to Make The Film Together
- Reynolds and Costner Both Needed A Hit When They Began Shooting Waterworld
From the mid-80s to the late 90s, Kevin Costnerwas one of the most recognised and talked-about men in the world. After breaking through with a number of roles in small, little-seen films, the California-born actor gradually worked his way up to major movie star status. [rtk_adunit_top] With his easy-going everyman charm and crowd-pleasing good look...
Only five years after Fandango flopped, Kevin Costner was on top of the world with his 1990 directorial debut Dances with Wolves. The epic western, in which Costner also played the lead, became a huge box office smash and won a slew of Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director. [rtk_adunit_middle] Whilst shooting Dances with Wolves, Costner ...
Dances with Wolves was just one in a series of massive critical and commercial success stories for Kevin Costner. In the years before, he’d followed 1987’s No Way Out and The Untouchables with 1988’s Bull Durham, 1989’s Field of Dreamsand 1990’s Revenge. [rtk_adunit_top] After Dances with Wolves came 1991’s Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and JFK, an...
Reynolds grew frustrated with Costner’s constant demands, and this built into a major falling out between the two men. During post-production on Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Reynolds quit the movie, leaving Costner to oversee the final cut (although Reynolds still has full credit as director). [rtk_adunit_middle] For a time it seemed that Reynold...
In the early 80s, around the time that Costner and Reynolds were first starting to make waves (pun intended) in Hollywood, an aspiring screenwriter and director named Peter Rader was looking to break into the business himself. [rtk_adunit_top] Rader met with Brad Krevoy, an associate of legendary B-movie producer Roger Corman, who told the newcomer...
There are a number of notable differences between Peter Rader’s first draft of the Waterworld screenplay, and the film that eventually made it to screens. For one, the film’s nameless hero the Mariner originally had a name, Morgan (a name beginning with an M, acknowledging the project’s debt to Mad Max). [rtk_adunit_middle] Also, as Rader saw the f...
As well as having a name in Rader’s original Waterworld screenplay, the Mariner was also conceived as a regular human being. It wasn’t until David Twohy was hired to do re-writes that the hero instead became a mutant with gills, allowing him to breathe underwater. [rtk_adunit_top] Rader has acknowledgedthis was a “brilliant addition” to the script,...
Peter Rader has admitted that when he was writing Waterworld, he had one of the biggest leading men of the time in mind for the lead role. However, it wasn’t Kevin Costner the writer was thinking of, but Harrison Ford. [rtk_adunit_middle] Ford was, after all, one of the biggest stars in the world off the back of the Star Wars and Indiana Jones fran...
Kevin Costner and Kevin Reynolds hadn’t spoken in some time, when by sheer coincidence both men took an interest in making Waterworld. When it became apparent that the film could mark a reunion for the Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves team, both of the Kevins were wary. [rtk_adunit_top] At first, Reynolds and Costner both turned the film down, fearing...
Waterworld is often remembered as the moment when the tides turned (pun intended) on Costner’s career, but in fact the actor’s reputation had already taken a dip before the film made it to screens. Costner’s post-Bodyguard films – 1993’s A Perfect World (pictured below), and 1994’s Wyatt Earp and The War – had all performed below expectations. [rtk...
Sep 17, 2020 · The film’s original screenwriter Peter Rader, who created the post-apocalyptic action adventure set in a future where the polar ice caps have melted and water covers the Earth, tells BBC...
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Jul 28, 2020 · Peter Rader was a Harvard grad with ambitions to direct. And as he sat in the office of one of Corman’s development execs one day in the late ‘80s, he was told that if he could write...
Jul 28, 2020 · According to Waterworld screenwriter, Peter Rader, the source of the movie’s many troubles stemmed from one fateful decision: the choice to shoot the entire film on the open water rather than in...
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