![]() ![]() His wife Janet Horvath survives him, as do children Teri, Dirk and Dayna four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. The writer’s 48-year marriage to Barbara Knight ended with her death in 2003. He also collected and restored vintage cars. In addition to writing, Cussler was an avid explorer of shipwrecks and sunken treasures and founded the National Underwater & Marine Agency, a nonprofit organization dedicated to American maritime and naval history. A tidal wave of pounding excitement from the first page to the last. A potential Dirk Pitt film franchise was abandoned. The fantastic fourth Dirk Pitt classic from multi-million-copy king of the adventure novel, Clive Cussler. The film’s producer, Lew Grade, famously remarked “it would have been cheaper to lower the Atlantic.”ĭirector Breck Eisner’s Sahara, which starred McConaughey as Cussler’s frequent fictional hero, the explorer Dirk Pitt, often is listed among Hollywood’s worst flops, grossing only $119 million worldwide against a budget in excess of $130 million. ![]() Like Sahara after it, the film was a box office disaster, grossing a fraction of its estimated $40 million budget. Raise the Titanic! was adapted into a 1980 feature film, directed by Jerry Jameson and starring Jason Robards, Richard Jordan, David Selby, Anne Archer and Sir Alec Guinness. ![]()
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