Los Angeles Times, Liz Smith, 6/24/2002:
Casting About for a Dirk Pitt
NEW YORK – Author Clive Cussler has been in Hollywood looking for the perfect actor to play Dirk Pitt in the coming film adaptation of his bestselling novel “Sahara”. […] No word yet on which star will get to wear the orange-faced Doxa wristwatch featured in Cussler’s story. But to play Dirk Pitt, let us make a suggestion: Brad Pitt?