 He then wrote and directed "The Norseman" (1978), which starred Lee Majors as a Viking prince who traveled to America to rescue his father from Indians.Working with a multimillion-dollar budget, Pierce shot the film in the Florida locations Hillsborough River State Park and New Port Richey.The next year he co-wrote and directed "The Evictors" (1979), another documentary-style horror film about a young couple who move into a rural Louisiana farmhouse and find their lives endangered by a series of strange events.