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anotherwriter@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(JAH) wrote:
> http://comingsoon.net/news.php?id=820
> 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.
I realize that 'Raise The Titanic' (1980, with Richard Jordan as Dirk
Pitt, M. Emmett Walsh as Giordino, and Jason Robards as Adm. Sandecker)
was a truly awful movie, but we can't just erase it from public record.
The McConaughey film will be the SECOND Cussler movie.
Record set straight....
El Capitan
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