Last week I went to see Sahara, I wanted to go see something a bit more challenging and not so cheesy. Quite frankly the trailer made it look like a bucket load of melted Wensleydale. Boy was I surprised, it was great entertainment, the main characters worked well together, and despite a few really lame moments of dialogue, for an entertainment movie with big explosions it was a lot of fun.
No surprise that the ending setup the franchise, and double that for the news this morning that Matthew McConaughey is speaking out to USA Today through Coming Soon that he’s keen to continue the movies. Well wouldn’t you be when it’s riding the top of UK and US charts?
“I’d been looking for that renaissance guy,” McConaughey said. “Everything I’d read that was a possible franchise character in the action-adventure genre was either too roadhouse, just fighting and running around, or they were too prim and proper, never getting their hands dirty.”
Dirk Pitt is “a senator’s son, but a scavenger of the deep,” he added. “He can talk marine biology with you at noon and then at one o’clock be dealing gold bullion with smugglers and pirates.”
If he wants to return as Dirk Pitt, McConaughey will have to hope that Sahara warms a frosty relationship with Cussler. The author went along with plans to make the movie but filed suit in January to block production of future Dirk Pitt movies after he was unhappy with script changes to his story.
Perhaps it was never meant to be so cheesy, just chesty?! What did everyone else think of it? Is it worth a sequel and perhaps a franchise?
