Surfers declare adult learner Kevin Costner “lame” as filming starts on star’s surf-horror flick Headhunters

"Kevin's buying up surfboards that are all wrong, and people think he's a joke."

Thirty years after the cult classic Waterworld where Kevin Costner played a mutated human with gill-like structures and webbed feet, capable of surviving in the post-apocalyptic, water-covered Earth, the almost seventy year old has come come under fire from surfers following the announcement of his surf-horror movie Headhunters.

Kevin Costner 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.”

Now, a real bitchy unnamed mole in the Costner camp has told Life and Style magazine the movie is actually a ploy for Costner to get a little surf cred.

“He’s been quietly trying to get in the surfing community for years and hasn’t even got a foot in the door because they think he’s lame and a Hollywood star who should stick to dry land. Surfers don’t like these amateurs infringing on their waves. Plus, he’s locked in this ‘I’m cool in my new life’ mode, and they’re saying, ‘Who does he think he is?'”

The insider said, “Kevin’s buying up surfboards that are all wrong, and people think he’s a joke. Bottom line is this is a very tight, cliquey, snobby community, and he’s not doing himself favours with his arrogance and by expecting people to fall to their feet.”

Also, Costner is “trying to channel his inner Baywatch by hiring surf trainer and getting out there early in the morning to catch the first waves. Kevin’s desperate to hang out with the surf crowd now that he’s got a new movie on the subject. The feeling is he should probably stay in the whitewater and avoid the big waves — and let the stuntman do the stunt work!

The insider then delivered their vicious coup de grâce.

“This is the way Kevin does things. But he’s got a long way to go, and he may never reach his goal because, let’s face it, he’s a lousy surfer.”