Hollywood just can’t seem to churn out docudramas about the most despicable characters in society fast enough.

And the town seems more and more willing to pay out the big bucks to get the rotten get.

John Phillip Walker Lindh, who prefers the name Hamza Walker Lindh, is the American who during the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan was found to be a member of the Taliban army. Lindh was captured and eventually sentenced to twenty years in prison.

With Lindh in the slammer, his family has retained lawyers and are seeking to get the “American Taliban”’s conviction overturned on appeal.

Legal fees can be quite expensive, and Hollywood appears to be coming to the rescue. A flurry of book, TV and movie offers are apparently being made to Lindh’s family.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, a film in which CIA agents interrogate Walker Lindh sold to ABC and CBS for $80,000 (the two networks split the bill). CBS also paid $20,000 for footage of Lindh being interviewed by Turkish reporters.

Sources indicate that much bigger dollar amounts are in the offing as networks and studios try to outbid each other so they can spin the poor misunderstood traitor yarn.