NEW YORK – Mexican-born film star Salma Hayek could take a lead role in an upcoming adaptation of the book "News of a Kidnapping" by Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the movie's producer says.

Shooting is scheduled to start this October in Bogota and in Mexico on the adaptation of the 1996 book, a factual account of the kidnapping of 10 journalists by notorious Colombian drug trafficker Pablo Escobar.

Producer Eduardo Constantini, from Argentina, told AFP he hopes for "the most international cast possible" and that Hayek is a possibility.

"Salma Hayek is very interested in the project, has read the script and is enthusiastic," Constantini said in New York.

Garcia Marquez is considered one of the major writers of the 20th century. His books include the novels "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and "Love in the Time of Cholera," which was made into a film.