BOGOTA, COLUMBIA - THE daring rescue of Ingrid Betancourt and 14 other hostages will be made into a movie by a Colombian director, a Hollywood production company and RCN-TV, the television channel said on Sunday.
'They still have to choose a language for the script ... (and) whether the film will be shot in Colombia or France,' an RCN News said in a report.
It said the film will be directed by Colombia's Simon Brand and produced 'jointly by a Hollywood production company and under RCN-Cine supervision.'
The report did not say when the shooting might start.
A former presidential candidate with dual Franch-Colombian citizenship, Betancourt, 46, was rescued on Wednesday along with three Americans and 11 other hostages in a bloodless military operation that tricked rebel FARC guerrillas into thinking their captives were being transferred to another rebel camp.
In a plot worthy of a Hollywood adventure, Colombian soldiers took acting lessons and then disguised themselves as guerrillas to trick the rebels into boarding a helicopter with their captives, all while fake reporters' cameras were rolling.
After she was flown to France to meet with relatives, Betancourt said in an interview published in France Sunday that she planned to write a play about her six-year hostage ordeal.
Brand is well known in Colombian for his 2007 Paraiso Travel and for his 2005 British film Unknown. He has also done musical videos featuring stars including Shakira and Enrique Iglesias. -- AFP
