One week after 15 hostages were freed by Colombian commandos, Hollywood has come knocking, according to a report by Variety. Several potential projects are already taking shape, and producers have begun tracking down almost everyone involved to make rights deals.

Ingrid Betancourt, who was taken hostage in 2002 by FARC (the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) as she ran for president of Colombia, will sign with French literary agent Susannah Lea and seek a major book and movie deal. Meanwhile, Washington, D.C.-based McLarty Associates, the consulting powerhouse that helped broker the freedom of the three Americans liberated with Ms. Betancourt, has steered the former hostages to meet with United Talent Agency, which has worked with McLarty in the past.

Elsewhere, Scott Steindorff and Las Vegas-based Phil Maloof are negotiating the rights to the Colombian government’s story of how it pulled off the bloodless rescue operation, which included infiltrating FARC’s intelligence network and employing acting teachers and speech therapists to fool the kidnappers into releasing the hostages.