I think the Sahara movie was a great flick, Al may have been cast wrong by
some people's thoughts, but you have to give Steven Zahn credit for
keeping
the humor aspect up. If you look back at most movies made from books,
most
authors never like what they see because they have a different vision for
things. I'd like to see more, I'd also like to see a doc savage movie
make
it out, it'd be nice to see pulp books become movies and more dirk pitt
books become movies, they seem to mirror each other.
Capt.
"onemarathon" <onemarathon@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> mpoconnor7@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>
>> I forgot the terrific Alec Guinness cameo as the last survivor of the
>> Titanic.
>
> Very cool. I'm a fan of Guinness (both the beer and the actor).
>
>> I don't know if it is available on DVD, but I'm sure you could pick up
>> a copy on Ebay as it's probably out of print. They played RTT on Bravo
>> in late 2003 and I taped it from there.
>
> I certainly hope I can find the movie, even if it's just on rental. I
> don't care
> to buy it without knowing if I'll even like it. Would be nice if they'd
> show
> the movie on regular cable. I don't get Bravo.
>
>> I doubt any more Dirk Pitt movies will be made in the forseeable
>> future. Cussler did sign a deal to make three movies from his books:
>> Sahara, Inca Gold and Night Probe. The problem is that Sahara was a
>> box office disappointment, and there were lawsuits around this movie as
>> Cussler didn't like the finished product and it turned into a public
>> pissing contest. For one thing, there were about ten screenwriters who
>> worked on the Sahara script, which isn't a good thing. I doubt the
>> film studios will throw good money after bad, and will buy Cussler out
>> of his three picture deal. A look at the IMDB for Matthew McConaghuey
>> shows six films upcoming over the next two years, and none of them are
>> Cussler projects.
>
> A shame that Sahara the movie didn't work out in Cussler's favour,
> since it
> would be great to see screen treatments of these stories. They don't
> have to
> be dead on, either. Look at the (early) Bond movies: not much like the
> novels,
> but still great in their own right. I'm talking about the Connery
> films, and none
> of the others. And Alistair Maclean's stories to film were good ones...
> at least
> the ones I've seen. Ah well, sometimes the books and our imaginations
> are
> enough.
>
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