NBC to make Gulf war film

The first made-for-television film based on events in the war in Iraq is already in the works.

The story of Jessica Lynch, the US soldier taken prisoner in Iraq and then rescued, is to be made into a film, despite the fact her family has refused to sell the rights to her story, reports Reuters.

The NBC television network says it has started work on a script about the 19-year-old prisoner of war, who is currently recovering from multiple wounds in a US army hospital in Washington following her rescue in a nighttime raid from a hospital in Nasiriya.

She had spent nine days listed as missing after Iraqi forces ambushed her convoy when it took a wrong turn.

Few details have emerged of her ordeal as a prisoner, and her family has told media outlets they are not ready to discuss selling the rights to her story.

NBC has said that it is going ahead anyhow, reports Reuters.