In 2014, the Los Angeles Times listed the film as one of the most expensive flops of all time. Initially green-lit with a production budget of $80 million, costs rose to $100 million by the time shooting started and had ballooned to $160 million by the time production wrapped, with a further $61 million in distribution expenses. Ward made $500,000 for his uncredited work. A total of 10 screenwriters were used to polish the script, with four eventually receiving credit, which added $3.8 million to the film's budget David S. McConaughey was paid $8 million, Penélope Cruz was paid $1.6 million, and Rainn Wilson was paid $45,000. One 46-second action sequence cost $2 million to film but ended up not making the final cut. Principal photography began in November 2003, with the film being shot primarily on-location in Morocco, with portions in England (Hampshire and Shepperton Studios) and in Spain.
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A series of explosions along the dry river bed reveals the wreckage of the Texas. The three leave the plant in an Avions Voisin C-28, and Kazim pursues them in an attack helicopter, with his army following. Al successfully neutralizes the explosive, angering Massarde. Dirk kills Zakara after a vicious fight, but Massarde escapes via helicopter. Fearing the plant's destruction would guarantee worldwide water contamination, Al goes to remove the explosives while Dirk tries to rescue Eva. To cover up the existence of the waste, Massarde plans to destroy it with explosives. Rebuilding a plane wreck into a land yacht, they leave the desert.ĭirk and Al return to the plant, with Modibo's help. Massarde and Zakara capture them, keep Eva, and send Dirk and Al in a truck to Kazim. The US government won't intervene during a civil war in a sovereign country. The chemicals are seeping slowly towards the ocean, where they will expand rapidly upon entering salt water and kill ocean life worldwide. Dirk believes that the Texas became stranded when the river dried up and the same river that carried the ship now runs underground.įollowing the river bed to the border, they stumble upon Massarde's solar plant, the source of the contamination. Al stumbles into a cave with a painting showing the ironclad Texas.
She finds out water contains toxins, and there is no treatment available. Convincing the group that they are hunted by Kazim, their leader, Modibo, shows Eva his people dying from the disease she is following. As they are leaving Mali, they are captured by the Tuareg insurgents. Kazim's men track down the doctors and kill Hopper. Rudi leaves to get help while Dirk and Al go to rescue the doctors. Dirk, Al, and Rudi survive, but the yacht is destroyed. They first transport Eva and Hopper to Mali so they can continue investigating the disease, then continue up the Niger.īusinessman Yves Massarde and dictator General Kazim try to stop the doctors from discovering the source of the disease.
His partner Al Giordino and Rudi Gunn from NUMA accompany him. A clue to the long-lost Texas, Dirk borrows his boss Sandecker's yacht to search for it. Zakara, a corrupt Tuareg, tries to murder Eva, but she is rescued by Dirk Pitt, from the National Underwater and Marine Agency, who was diving nearby.ĭirk gets a gold Confederate coin found in the Niger. In Nigeria, WHO doctors Eva Rojas and Frank Hopper investigate a disease affecting people who have been in Mali. In present day Mali, there is a civil war between dictator General Kazim and the Tuareg people. The CSS Texas, captained by Mason Tombs, is loaded with the last of the Confederacy's gold to keep it from Union forces. In 1865, at the conclusion of the American Civil War, Richmond, Virginia is in ruins.
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