wow.. already?

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BURBANK, Calif. - Actress Laura Regan will portray Army Pvt. Jessica Lynch in the NBC movie "Saving Jessica Lynch."

Regan, who starred in the 2002 horror movie "They," was cast in the lead role of the TV movie centering on the rescue of the 20-year-old Iraqi prisoner of war, network spokeswoman Cathryn Boxberger said Tuesday.

NBC Entertainment President Jeff Zucker said last month the film will be a compelling action-adventure told from the perspective of Mohammed Odeh al-Rehaief, the Iraqi lawyer who alerted the U.S. military to Lynch's whereabouts.

The film, being made without Lynch's participation, will focus less on her and more on the experience of her Army unit and her rescuers, Zucker has said.

Lynch was captured March 23 after her 507th Maintenance Company convoy was ambushed in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah. She was rescued from a hospital in the city on April 1 after al-Rehaief alerted U.S. forces.

She returned home last month to Palestine, W.Va., after a long hospitalization in Washington, D.C.

"Saving Jessica Lynch," with executive producer Dan Paulson, is scheduled to start production this month. It will be broadcast in November.


Injured U.S. Army private Jessica Lynch, whose capture by Iraqi forces and later recovery was highly publicized, may be paid to help NBC make a television movie about the ordeal, The New York Times reported August 7, 2003, citing executives involved in the proposed deal. Twenty-year-old Lynch, who was taken prisoner during the Iraq (news - web sites) war and was held over a week before being rescued by U.S. Special Forces, is seen here talking to reporters at her homecoming celebration July 22, 2003. Photo by Blake Sell/Reuters



Canadian actress Laura Regan, from Halifax, Canada, shown in an undated photo, will portray Army Pvt. Jessica Lynch, the 19-year-old U.S. Army supply clerk captured by Iraqi forces, in the NBC movie ``Saving Jessica Lynch.'' (AP Photo/The Halifax Daily News, HO)