Sahara star and producer Matthew McConaughey tells USA Today he would like to continue the franchise based on Clive Cussler's series of bestselling books.
"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.
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