Dirk Pitt is a character spun from the DNA of old movie serials, an adventurer who manages to extricate himself from impossible situations with a combination of his guile, his guts, and his gun.

However, Sahara will have to find favour with Cussler if more films are to follow, after he tried to block production of further Pitt movies earlier this year when he disapproved of changes Sahara ...

The first Dirk Pitt novel was released in 1973. His latest, Valhalla Rising, is due to be released in September, 2001. – KJB has been waiting for a good Dirk Pitt movie for a very long time.

Clive Cussler, the best-selling author behind the popular adventure novels about the heroic Dirk ... movies. The “Raise the Titanic” flick came out in 1980 and starred Richard Jordan as Pitt ...

Retired US admiral Sandecker's foundation finances various projects worldwide, including high tech marine salvage by brilliant Dirk Pitt's US Navy Seal veterans team including buddy Al Giordino ...

However, Hollywood saw the potential, and in 1980 financed the movie Raise The Titanic ... bag of money in order to get the rights to the Dirk Pitt property, starting with Sahara.