Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Muna 2001 20th Century Fox yakatenga Monahan's spec script "Tripoli", nezve William Eaton's epic march paTripoli panguva yeBarbary Wars
, muchibvumirano chinokosha pakati pemadhora okuAmerica, naMark Gordon aripo somugadziri. Ridley Scott ndiye akapiwa manyoro acho kuti atungamirire. Monahan akasangana naScott kuti vakurukure "Tripoli", uye Scott akataura nezvechishuvo chake chokutungamirira firimu pamusoro pevarwi. Monahan akakarakadza Hondo Dzemachechi kuva nharaunda, achirangarira kuti "une nhau dzose dzingafungidzirwa dzinogona kufungidzirwa imomo, idzo dzinoshamisa zvikuru kupfuura ngano". Scott akafadzwa nehurukuro yaMonahan ndokumushandira kuti anyore script ye"Kingdom of Heaven". "Tripoli" pakupedzisira yakaiswa pachiteshi, asi Monahan akachengeta muridzi wechinyorwa uye nokudaro kodzero yekufunga nezvezvipo zvitsva pane imwe nguva inotevera.