“This is one of the best scripts I have seen in my career. Kevin is a legendary actor who brings so much depth and charisma…”
Almost thirty years after briefly sinking his career with the 1995 stinker Waterworld where he played a mutated human with gill-like structures and webbed feet, capable of surviving in the post-apocalyptic, water-covered Earth, Kevin Costner will have another swing at an oceanic epic next year with a surf horror film set in Bali.
The almost seventy-year-old Kevin Costner, whom you last saw as the murderous patriarch John Dutton in the television series Yellowstone, plays Lazer, “a washed-up American ex-pat with a mysterious past who finds himself living in Bali, Indonesia. Lazer recruits a group of surfers led by Bima, a local photographer, on a journey to an uncharted island to pioneer a ‘perfect wave.’ To their surprise, the island is home to an ancient tribe of headhunters guarding the land at all costs.
“What ensues is an adventure turned survival story of epic and bloody proportions on a tropical island which once seemed to be paradise but is actually closer to hell.”
Kevin Costner has joined up with Scott Steindorff and his Stone Village Films to bring the Headhunters to life.
“For decades, my friend Kevin Costner and I have been searching for the right project to collaborate on,” Steindorff said. “This is one of the best scripts I have seen in my career. Kevin is a legendary actor who brings so much depth and charisma to his roles, and has written an iconic horror script with Steve.”
Sounds like it has a shot at the worst movie ever made, don’t it?
Or does that crown forever belong on the head of the 2016 remake of Ghostbusters?
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The only reason the 2016 GB did so statistically poorly is that a bunch of basement dwelling neckbeard misogynists collectively spammed the various ratings systems, because “wImMiNz cAnT rEpLaCe bIlL mUrRaY!!!1!!” or something.
I mean… who hasn’t seen worse movies than either GB2016 or Waterworld? Lotta negative hype overr nuthin’.
Hopefully they discover a crashed aircraft housing a few playboy centrefolds..
“Tropical island which once seemed to be paradise but is actually closer to hell.” – quite fitting to be set jn Bali
A surf horror movie set in Bali?
Let me guess, it’s full of Russians and Europe Val’s all acting like zombies in the water and taking over every lineup by sheer weight of numbers?
Life imitates art?
The only way to kill the zombies is to decapitate them with your single fin
Sounds like Hazard Canyon in the eighties.
The Hills Have Eyes
Kevin must be taking notes from Nicolas Cage. Take any job you can get to pay off ex wives and poor investments (Horizon). Just needs to move to vegas and purchase a dinosaur head.
going to be paying for Horizon the rest of his days no doubt.
Dances with hookers.
Poor Bali…
Bali can look after itself. Pre-production already underway in Hawai’i, apparently. He also said a while ago that he had a movie coming up in Tahiti and I wonder if this is it?
In Kevin’s Hands.
sounds like an ordinary day on North Sentinel Island
I hear the views from the lineup are pretty interesting
Supposedly it’s also been surfed
https://www.swellnet.com/news/swellnet-dispatch/2018/11/25/escape-north-sentinel-island
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Arabs waiting for tyler and her wife to land their boat
Yup – I consulted on that project and I told them specifically NOT to go to North Sentinel, but they went anyway and rather sucessfully.
The Captain himself recounted the episode over a few beers at a beach bar in Phuket –
Not to say someone else won’t try as North Sentinel is holding in the wave department, but it got a lot more difficult after that idiot John Allen Chau got himself killed.
Should be a WCT stop.
“An accident tribe”?
Are they gaff-prone,or is your proofreader on sabbatical?
Fuckwits.
Ooowee, proofreader is me.
What makes you think ANYONE, other than AI, proof reads any thing written on BG?
In a nutshell.
“Slaughterworld”.
Whatever happened to Thai Sticks? Great read. I recall many moons ago reading that a certain KS brought the film rights to it. Not sure if my memory is correct though.
I better ask ol Petey Maguire what happened to it.
Fantastic article on Millius in the new Journal by old mate.
Didn’t know he wrote and directed Red Dawn too. What a fantastic piece of propaganda that was as a kid.
Sounds like this one may not be in the same league.
agree, that was a great read
So did you actually watch Waterworld DR? Not a stinker at all. I would say it’s actually worth a watch!
preach.
Our very own Laird Hamilton was Kos’s stunt double and my old friend Randy Smyth sailed the Kos craft (a replica of Lakota) impeccably.
Great movie for the sailing alone.
…..and anything Dennis Hopper is in, instantly achieves legend status.
It seems to be based on the classic sci-fi novel “The Drowned World” by J.G. Ballard… a book I enjoyed immensely, when I read it many years ago.
I didn’t! But a stinker at the box office although it did, eventually, make a slight profit.
It is still making money. Does no one listen to Costner? He says he doesn’t make movies for the quick fix but for the long haul.
Its still raking it in . Universal studios water world stunt show is an epic live action stunt-show that many successful stunties have gotten their start on.
Epic flames, jet skis amd explosions! All in a seaworld style arena (minus the tortured orcas)
Film was way ahead of its time with the global warming apocalyptic themes
def a must see if you visit universal studios!
It wasn’t necessarily a “stinker” at the box office, it debuted at #1. It was a financial flop due to cost of production that included the set sinking at one point.
And a scene I still quote…