Colombian hostage rescue to be turned into movie

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BOGOTA (AFP) — 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 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 Wednesday along with three Americans and 11 other hostages in a bloodless military operation that tricked rebel...