The Dirk Pitt adventure SAHARA
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DIRK PITT novels finally coming to big screen
By: Christopher Allan SmithDate: Wednesday, May 15, 2002
Source: Variety
Rob Bowman (THE X-FILES: FIGHT THE FUTURE, REIGN OF FIRE) has been announced as the director of SAHARA, the big screen translation of one of Clive Cussler's most popular Dirk Pitt novels.
The announcement comes at the Cannes film festival, with Paramount Pictures set to produce the film which starts shooting in October.
Officially, this will be the second time the daredevil underwater adventurer Pit has made it to the big screen, 1980s famously bad adaptation of RAISE THE TITANIC being the first. But let's not dwell on the past.
In a glowing statement from the studio, Chairman Sherry Lansing crowed, "Clive's Dirk Pitt books have an enormous, fanatical following, and his characters and stories demand the kind of bigscreen adaptation that Rob can deliver."
With twenty years of adventure novels, rivaling Ian Fleming's James Bond series in scope and fan devotion, Paramount could be tapping the last vast series of action novels not yet brought to the screen in franchise fashion.
More news when we get it.
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