Following the failure of Blitz nell'oceano (1980), Clive Cussler had refused to sell the movie rights to any of his books, until he was approached, just as he had been for that film, by a very rich outsider, in this case Philip Anschutz. A Denver billionaire who had parlayed his oil and gas fortune into a broad range of investments, he was also a strongly conservative Christian. One of his investments had been the Regal theater chain, the largest in the country, and like many successful film exhibitors he decided to put some of his money into productions. The Anschutz Film group sought to produce films that weren't R-rated and delivered a strong moral message. Cussler, remembering the earlier experience, not only got Anschutz to shell out $10 million for the rights to his 1992 novel Sahara, he also got final approval for the script, cast and director-a highly unusual provision for the author of a novel being adapted into a film.
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