Adventure runs dry
http://www.praguepost.com/P03/2005/Art/0616/featu1.phpThe opening credits of Sahara have the line "A Clive Cussler Dirk Pitt Adventure," suggesting that this is first of a new Indiana Jones-type series. The main character, Dirk Pitt, was featured 25 years ago in the film Raise the Titanic, but has been in no other films since, even though he appears in more than a dozen popular novels. That is because author Clive Cussler was so unhappy with Raise the Titanic that he held onto the rest of the screen rights until recently.
Cussler sold the rights again in 2001 to a production company, but retained the right to approve of the cast and the script. He was so dissatisfied with the script for Sahara that he went to court to try to stop the production. Anybody who bought a ticket might want to talk to him about making it a class action suit to recoup expenses and lost time, not to mention damages resulting from the massive insult to the intelligence of the audience.
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