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The drama will be based on the memoir 'Impossible Odds,' written by Buchanan, husband Erik Landemalm, and Anthony Flacco.
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American humanitarian aid worker Jessica Buchanan travels to Somalia to help children only to be kidnapped by militants and held for ransom for 93 days. Her captors are killed by Navy SEALs in a dramatic rescue mission in January 2012.
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changed the production status to Development
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Elizabeth Fowler (“Devil’s Knot”) and Claudia Bluemhuber (“The Host”) are developing a movie based on last year’s rescue of Jessica Buchanan in Somalia.
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Jessica Buchanan and her husband Erik Landemalm are performing humanitarian aid work in Eastern Africa when she and Danish citizen Poul Hagen Thisted are kidnapped in October 2011 by a band of Somalia land pirates. Buchanan fights to stay alive using deception and imagination, as her husband works with the FBI and U.S. military to keep the pirates negotiating. With Buchanan’s health declining, a Navy SEAL Team attacks the the pirates’ compound and kill all nine of them, rescuing Buchanan and Thisted.
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