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Crazydog
| Wednesday, November 13, 2002 - 11:32 am
Does anyone here read the Dirk Pitt books by Clive Cussler? Dirk is like a cross between James Bond and a marine scientist like Jacques Cousteau. They are supposedly going to make the books into movies. The first one is going to be "Sahara". It's rumored that <ugh> Tom Cruise wants to play Pitt.
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Whoami
| Wednesday, November 13, 2002 - 12:37 pm
Mom and I are both Cussler fans! I always have fun reading his books. We've often wondered who could play Pitt. Tom Cruise just doesn't work for me. Also would like to see who could be Sandecker and Giordino. I'm actually surprised they are going to make movies. I thought the story was, that Raise the Titanic was so badly done, Cussler vowed he'd never allow any of his other books to be made into movies. Hopefully, if he has recinded that vow, he will stay on set and make sure they do it right!
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Neko
| Monday, November 18, 2002 - 9:22 am
I'm a Cussler fan too! I read all the Dirk Pitt books and I want more!! The was quite a weird ending of the last book. Very surpirsing...but that makes me think... No more "Dirk Pitt" and new "Dirk Pitt."
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Bbfreak
| Friday, December 27, 2002 - 9:25 am
My Mother was a hard core Cussler fan. In the spring of 94 he came to San antonio to look for the lost Cannon of the Alamo. They drain the River Walk every year to clean it out and he has come several times to look for the cannon. Anyway, we headed down there during his visit, hoping to catch a glimpse of him. No luck, he was off to lunch. I remember vividly telling Mom "Well there is always next year". There was no Next year, she was tragically killed a few months later. A few months after her death, I started going through her things and I found the last book she was reading, I believe it was Dragon. I realized it was a rented book WAY overdue. When I went to return it to the used book store, the woman refused any late fees and GAVE the book to me. I read it and was hooked! I read all of his books and wait impatiently 2 years for the next one to come out. Thanks Mom for the gift of introducing me to the wonderful life of Dirk Pitt!
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Whoami
| Friday, December 27, 2002 - 9:25 pm
{{{{Bbfreak}}}} Do you still have that book of your mom's? Wouldn't it be something if you could find Cussler at a book signing or something, and have him sign that book?
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Bbfreak
| Saturday, December 28, 2002 - 8:45 am
YES I still have the book Whoami, I have often thought the same thing. For all you you Cussler Fans, Check out this site: WWW.Numa.net There is info on book signings there. I checked and there is nothing near me, but, I am sure he will be near someday. I think there is a branch office of NUMA here in Texas somewhere.
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Clp
| Thursday, January 09, 2003 - 12:27 am
I read in Entertainment Weekly that CC is pulling a Stephen King and that the next DK book will be the last one! SO SAD!
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Crazydog
| Thursday, January 09, 2003 - 10:26 am
I think that's incorrect. There's a Clive Cussler message board at his publisher's website, and when this was reported, a woman who works with Clive Cussler said that his remarks were taken out of context. I think he said something about how he was going to keep on writing them until they tell him not to. Good news for us. Right now I am reading The Mediterranean Caper. I've read about half his books, and I read them out of order so I was sometimes confused when he references earlier adventures, particularly the floating bathtub with the motor. I've read Atlantis Found, Treasure, Sahara, Shock Wave, Cyclops, Dragon, Inca Gold and Pacific Vortex. Now I'm starting at the beginning and working my way down.
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Neko
| Thursday, January 09, 2003 - 1:25 pm
Hahaha the bathtub. LOL
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Crazydog
| Friday, January 10, 2003 - 11:43 am
My memory is faulty. Neko, is the bathtub that is always referenced the one he used in "Cyclops"? Somehow when I read that one I don't remember thinking "aha! so this is where it came from".
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Crazydog
| Monday, June 16, 2003 - 1:58 pm
It has been confirmed that Matthew McConaughey has been cast as Dirk Pitt in the movie adaptation of Clive Cussler's Sahara. No word yet on who they are looking to cast as Al Giordino, but it is rumored that Salma Hayek will play Dr. Eva Rojas. Currently I am reading "Vixen 03".
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Neko
| Monday, June 16, 2003 - 5:27 pm
Matthew...McConaughey?? Uhhhhhh, I just don't see him as Dirk Pitt. I think I need to read these books again this summer.. And Crazy, extremely late response, but yes, he only uses a bathtub with motor once, and that's the one refered too. I think in "Cyclops" but I really couldn't tell you which storyline goes with which title. LOL
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Whoami
| Monday, June 16, 2003 - 5:43 pm
I'm not familiar enough with McConaughey's work to know how I'd feel about him being Pitt. I guess I'll have to wait and see! I just thought of someone I could see playing him. Not so much on appearance, and in how he can flash those "looks" when he has a "gotcha" on a bad guy.....Michael T. Weiss from Pretender. His eyes are the wrong color, but he could wear colored contacts.
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Crazydog
| Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 2:23 pm
I know, I really don't see McConaughey as Pitt either. But at least it isn't Tom Cruise, who I despise. Tom Cruise really really wanted this part, and I think Clive Cussler rejected him because he was too short (about 5'7" or so). I think Brad Johnson would have been a good choice. He's tall and dark. Not sure what he's been in lately, though. Thanks Neko, yeah I know, after a while all the stories tend to run together!
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Readonly
| Thursday, June 19, 2003 - 10:29 am
I hate to fly and when I do, I always imagine that Dirk Pitt and Rudy Giordino are at the controls. Nothing can go wrong when those guys are in charge. I hope the movie version of Sahara is better than the movie version of Raise the Titanic. That movie barely resembled the book, which I loved (I think that was my introduction to Dirk).
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