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Sahara
Character: Eva Rojas
Year: 2005
Director: Breck Eisner
Screenwriter: Clive Cussler, Thomas Dean Donnelly
Genre: Action / Adventure / Comedy
MPAA Rating: Rated PG-13 for action violence
Other Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Steve Zahn, William H. Macy
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Searching for a treasure on the River Niger, Dirk Pitt thwarts the attempted assassination of a beautiful U.N. scientist investigating a disease that is driving thousands of North Africans to death.
The suspected cause of the raging epidemic is vast, unprecedented pollution that threatens to extinguish all life in the world's seas. Racing to save the world from environmental catastrophe, Pitt and his team run a gauntlet between a billionaire French industrialist and a bloodthirsty West African tyrant.
In the scorching desert, Pitt uncovers the truth behind his life-long quest - the fate of a Civil War ironclad. Now, amidst the blazing, shifting sands of the Sahara, Dirk Pitt will make a desperate stand - in a battle the world cannot afford to lose!
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At first, Hugh Jackman was close to signing for the role of Dirk Pitt, and as of Summer 2001, filming was proposed to begin by October of that year. However, due to the 9/11 attacks, filming was postponed. It was later delayed again when Jackman was busy with X2 (2003), and he eventually pulled out so that he could appear on Broadway in "The Boy From Oz". Some time later, Tom Cruise was reported to be attached to star as Dirk Pitt, but those rumors were quickly squashed.
Shooting lasted three-and-a-half months in Morocco, a month in Spain, and five weeks in London.
The cast had camel-riding lessons during which they would have to ride the camel at full gallop for 90 minutes alongside a moving train.
The cast had a US Navy SEAL adviser for action sequences and weapon trainings.
An actual full-scale model of the Texas was built for the film. After the 1865 sequence was filmed, it was dismantled and reassembled in Morocco.
In the last scene of the plane surfing action. The actors are leaning as though the wind is coming from the left of the screen, but it you look at the rooster tail it is blowing from the center.
After Eva buries the light stick in the sand it reappears/disappears in subsequent shots.
When Eva is testing the water on the steps in the rebel village she is wearing a white turban. In the next scene when she is running to tell the others about her find, the turban is gone.
When Dirk, Al, and Eva are driving away from the attack helicopter, in the close up shots, the driver's side is correctly on the center. However, in the longer shots, as the car skids center before entering the desert building, the driver and steering wheel are on the left side. It also appears that only the stunt double is driving the car.
After patient Azikiwe is hoisted away, standing next to their car doctor Dr. Frank Hopper hands Eva a book with a WHO logo, next instant it's a clipboard without a logo.
In the trailer you see a man who is reading an Arabic text. He's reading it from the left to the center instead of from the center to the left (the way an Arabic text is read).
Eva catches herself after slipping during the well-descent. In the next shot, she is seen gripping two handles inside the well to steady herself.
When they are chased by the helicopter, Dirk shots at the dynamite bars to blow them up, thus providing cover. Dynamite does not explode, when shot at. Dynamite would only explode by the blaze of the fuse.
It would have been highly unlikely for Confederate Naval officers and crew to be fully outfitted in proper grey uniforms in 1865 thanks to constant blockading by Union ships. Most likely, the uniforms would have been a blend of Confederate grey and "butternut" hand-dyed uniform pieces.
When the sarcophagus is brought out of the water the admiral says "the king has an appointment at the museum in five hours". When we see the king at the museum it is completely clean. This type of work would take weeks if not months to complete.
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Penélope Cruz about the movie "I've always wanted to do a movie like this that is for the whole family, where the kids could have fun, the parents could have fun, even the grandparents. The ones I've read before, I never thought the female character was interesting enough. But when I read this script, I thought the character was very smart, very funny, and I thought the woman was there for a reason. The character of the woman was strong and had a sense of humor, and smart. Sometimes, they make them so smart that they can't have a sense of humor, so that's a cliché. I love this character and I'm very happy they made me a part of it."
Penélope Cruz physical demanding scenes "I've never said no to a director for something like that because of fear. So I train and train and train."
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