Source: Variety

Paramount has acquired rights to the story of Marla Ruzicka, a 28-year-old American relief worker killed in Iraq by a suicide bomber. Marc Platt will produce with MTV Films, reports Variety.

The studio bought Ruzicka's life rights as well as a book that will be written about her by Jennifer Abrahamson. The author wrote the first part of the book with Ruzicka, in the form of a book proposal, before the relief worker and her driver were killed in April after a suicide bomber crashed into a security convoy they were following.

Ruzicka, one of the few American relief workers in Iraq, founded Civic -- the Campaign for Innocent Victims of Conflict. She became a relentless advocate of civilians maimed and killed during the Iraqi and Afghanistan invasions. Often going door-to-door, she compiled lists of civilian war victims that shone a spotlight on the human costs of the war. She also sought compensation and medical treatment from the U.S. government for them, says the trade.

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