"Dan's attached, we're breaking the story now and we're talking to a few different writers. "We're talking to folks, but nobody locked in yet," said Fox. The project is still in the early stages of development, so there's no showrunner attached yet. RELATED: 'Waterworld' Isn’t a Good Movie, But I Can’t Stop Watching It But yes, we think it already has a home," added Fox, perhaps signaling a Peacock deal given Universal Television's involvement. "For now, it's at Universal Television, and we are putting it together. And with John, we are all re-imagining it for the streaming version," said Davis, who acknowledged that he'd found a home for the series, though he declined to identify which streamer will be involved. " Larry Gordon and myself, we're the producers on that movie. But definitely, we're in the building stages right now," added John Fox, who has been Davis' producing partner at Davis Entertainment for nearly a decade. "We're not 100% sure on the approach to the show. he acknowledged it would take place "20 years later.
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The series is expected to follow the characters from the original 1995 movie, and though Davis didn't mention any specific actors.
The Mariner, whose body has mutated in order to adapt to its water-logged surroundings, reluctantly agrees to help a woman ( Jeanne Triplehorn) and a young girl ( Tina Majorino) try to find dry land while they fight off starvation and outrun a group of outlaw "smokers" led by the late Dennis Hopper. Waterworld starred Kevin Costner as The Mariner, an otherwise nameless drifter who sails the Earth, which has flooded after the polar ice cap completely melted, forcing the sea level to rise. "We're going to do the streaming version of that movie, the continuation of that movie," said Davis. More than 25 years after Waterworld hit theaters, producer John Davis is ready to return to the open seas, as he's developing a Waterworld streaming series that has Dan Trachtenberg attached to direct.
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