NBC developing script on POW

The story of Jessica Lynch -- the U.S. soldier taken prisoner in Iraq and then rescued -- is to be made into a television movie, with or without her family selling her story.

NBC says it has started work on a script about the 19-year-old POW, who has become the most human American face of both the heroism and horror of the Iraq war.

Lynch is recovering from multiple wounds in a U.S. military hospital in Germany following her rescue last week in a nighttime raid from a hospital in the southern Iraqi town of 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 Lynch’s ordeal as a POW, and her family has told competing media outlets they are not ready to discuss selling the rights to her story. NBC said, however, that it was going ahead anyway.