Ingrid Betancourt Takes Hollywood By Storm

How’s this for a movie pitch: Colombian female presidential candidate is kidnapped by rebel forces.  Fourteen other hostages are with her, including three Americans. Flash forward six years later, and the woman is rescued,  surviving to tell every single detail and reunite con sus hijos. It may sound like a big screen drama to you, but it’s the true story of Ingrid Betancourt. The Colombiana was rescued just one week ago and Hollywood is wasting no time in making the worldwide headline into a big screen title.

Vertigo Entertainment, the production company that brought this summer’s horror flick The Strangers, has teamed up with Colombian television network RCN to tell the story of the dramatic rescue. Believe it or not, in just seven days studios have been battling over the rights to the Colombian tale and Vertigo won out due to their strong ties with the local network. With everyone in Hollywood and Colombia already buzzin' about la película, which Latina do you think would be best to play Ingrid: Salma? Penelope? Or maybe someone with a little less fuego y un poco mas “aire presidencial”?  You tell us!

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