TKO announced an agreement for the exclusive rights for developing a PC and console game based on SAHARA, Paramount Pictures and Crusader Entertainment's upcoming blockbuster. SAHARA is based on the international best-selling novel by Clive Cussler, and stars Matthew McConaughey, Penelope Cruz and Steve Zahn. TKO Software will invest USD 7 million in developing a 3D action adventure game to launch with the film in late 2004.
SAHARA is a motion picture based on one of the 17 best-selling action-adventure books by Clive Cussler. Produced by Crusader Entertainment and directed by Breck Eisner, the film is set in North Africa and follows the adventures of a modern day hero, Dirk Pitt (Matthew McConaughey), a Special Project Director for the U.S. National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA). Pitt is a master explorer who finds himself set against an evil billionaire industrialist in a bid to save the world from the spread of a catastrophic pollutant.
