Several potential projects are already taking shape, and producers have begun tracking down almost everyone involved to make rights deals.

Rumors are rife that Ingrid Betancourt -- taken hostage in 2002 as she ran for president of Colombia -- will sign with French lit agent Susannah Lea and seek a major book and movie deal.

Marc Gonsalves, Keith Stansell and Thomas Howes, the three American contractors freed with...