The film adaptation of Clive Cussler's "Sahara" drew moderate to good word of mouth and a decent piece of box-office too for Paramount. But with a hefty budgetary cost, the chances of sequel have seemed unlikely.

Now its about to hit DVD and Director Breck Eisner seems certain that one will go ahead - "Well, yes, we sure hope to be doing one and I think a lot of that depends on actually how we do on DVD. You know, we've done well box office and we want to continue to do well on DVD. And if all things do go well, because it's an expensive movie, then we will do another one. There are 18 books so we have a lot of source material to pull from. I know they have two or three of the books under contract. But I'm not supposed to tell anyone which ones they are yet, sadly".

Who's signed? "Matthew [McConaughey], Steve Zahn, Bill Macy, and Rainn Wilson are all under three-picture deals. I would love to direct the next one. So if it goes, I'll be doing it, for sure. I'm taking another movie fairly soon while we finish developing this movie. Hopefully the plan will be I do another movie while we continue writing and developing and scouting this, and I go into the next Sahara after that...the script is being written as we speak" said Eisner.

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Thanks to 'Bec'