The Slave Colony, a key set, was sunk by a storm and was unusable.
Anna Paquin was the first choice to play Enola.
Rumors abound that director Kevin Reynolds walked off the set with two weeks of filming left, and Kevin Costner completed the film.
The sunken city visited by the Mariner and guest is actually a digitally edited Denver, Colorado. The "Norwest Building" (roughly shaped like a cash register) can be seen in one shot.
Prior to Titanic (1997), this was the most expensive movie ever produced.
If the icecaps melted, the oceans would only rise a few hundred feet; not enough to flood civilization into a floating oblivion.
The real Exxon Valdez was repaired and renamed the Sea River Mediterranean. It is used to haul oil across the Atlantic.
In the scene where The Deacon (Dennis Hopper) takes aim at The Mariner (Kevin Costner) with his rifle, he first licks his thumb and then wipes the rifle sight, just like Gary Cooper does with his Alvin York character in Sergeant York (1941).
The picture on the wall that Deacon refers as "Old Saint Joe" is actually Joseph Hazelwood, infamous captain who crashed the Exxon Valdez oil tanker into the Alaskan landscape, negligently discharging millions of gallons of crude oil. The base of the Smokers is the Exxon Valdez, as evident when it sinks. The stern rises and the word "Valdez" is visible.
The most remembered line from Waterworld (1995), "Dryland is not a myth; I have seen it", is never spoken in the actual movie.
The four-machine gun chassis in the atoll assault scene is called a Maxon Mount. It is comprised of four .50 caliber Browning machine guns and was used as an anti-aircraft battery during World War II. It also came in a two gun mount which was used upto & in the Vietnam War as a Point Defense Weapon.
Joss Whedon flew out to the set to do last minute rewrites on the script. He later described it as "seven weeks of hell".
Because the movie didn't make as much money as planned, it was nicknamed "Fishtar", after the 1987 box office bomb Ishtar (1987).
Stunt coordinator Norman Howell got hit with compression sickness during filming of an underwater scene and was rushed to a hospital in Honolulu via helicopter. He recovered fairly quickly from the potentially life-threatening sickness and returned to the set a couple days later.
Kevin Costner was on the set 157 days, working 6 days a week.
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