Cinemax To See Timesman David Rohdes Kidnap Tale A Rope Together With A Prayer

EXCLUSIVE: Cinemax Films has hired former war correspondent-switched- documentary filmmaker Greg Barker to helm A Rope Together With A Prayer, a film in regards to the kidnapping with the Taliban of two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning NY Occasions foreign correspondent David Rohde. Rohde written it along with his wife Kristen Mulvihill, an image editor at Cosmopolitan Magazine. They'd only been married two several days when Rohde was taken into captivity with the Taliban in 2008 in order to the interview getting a Taliban leader, in Afghanistan. She knocked on every door of journalists, people in politics along with the Taliban to free him. Cinemax also acquired Rohde’s 5-part series written for your newspaper right after he plus an Afghan friend used an automobile pull to lower in the wall and escape. Michelle Ashford, whose credits include Cinemax’s The Off-shoreline, is writing the script. Michael London and Janice Williams will produce for Groundswell Productions. Barker, who directed the docus Quran Off Off By Heart and Sergio for Cinemax, is repped by Gersh and Parallax Talent Management.