Steve Zahn to be Al Giordino

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Steve Zahn is in talks to star in Crusader Entertainment's Sahara with
Matthew McConaughey.

Zahn will play Al Giordino, the wisecracking sidekick to McConaughey's
Dirk Pitt character. The film, based on the Clive Cussler
action-adventure novels, will be directed by Breck Eisner and shoot in
the U.K. and Morocco.

Crusader announced last year that it had greenlit an adaptation as the
first film to be based on the Pitt character in Cussler's bestselling
novels. The story focuses on McConaughey's character thwarting an
attempted assassination of a U.N. scientist investigating a raging
epidemic in North Africa that threatens to extinguish life in the
world's seas.

Paramount will distribute Sahara in North America and in the U.K.,
Italy, Spain, Australia and New Zealand.