RATS LEAVING A SINKING SHIP

THE GORY DETAIL OF HOW THE MCCANNS SO DESPERATELY WANT THEIR ARGUIDO STATUS LIFED TO CASH IN WITH MONEY MAKING VENTURES FROM THE LOSS OF LITTLE MADELEINE SURPRISES ME NOT IN THE SLIGHTEST

What really interested me was the resignation of Esther McVey who has aspirations to become a tory MP. This is indicative of just how much faith she personally has in Kate and Gerry McCann. If convinced of their innocence, her association with their cause, could do her political aspirations no harm at all. She clearly takes the alternative view - she cannot be associated with such incredible sleaze - how wise of you Ms McVey. The article seems to imply more resignations - I wonder who else. Note the controlling, money grabbing, Gerry will be heading the meeting - no mention of Kate!

Viv x


Madeleine the movie: McCanns in talks over missing daughter's storyLast updated at 10:24am on 8th January 2008
Comments (31) The McCanns are set to turn the story of their daughter into a film.
Kate and Gerry are in negotiations with the world's largest talent and entertainment agency, IMG, in a deal which could be worth millions.
The money would help fund the search for Madeleine amid fears that the £1.2 million raised from public donations will soon run out.
A source close to the McCanns said: "We would only get involved with something done sensitively and considerately."
If a deal is done with IMG, it would involve using the same team that made Touching The Void, an award-winning drama-documentary about the fight for survival of two British climbers lost on a mountain.

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The couple are also considering a book deal and selling interviews to television broadcasters with all proceeds going to the Madeleine Fund, the body set up to finance the search for the girl.
Madeleine was six days short of her fourth birthday when she vanished from her bed in the family's holiday apartment in Praia da Luz in Portugal on May 3.
The film project will be discussed at a meeting of the fund's directors, including Gerry, tomorrow night at the McCanns' home in Rothley, Leicestershire.
The Madeleine Fund is committed to spending £50,000 a month on a Spanish private detective agency. It is also paying for a poster and television advertising campaign in Spain, Portugal and Morocco, where there have been several alleged sightings.
Estimates suggest at least £500,000 has already been spent.
A source close to the McCann family said: "Donations from the public are still coming in but to sustain the fund properly, we will need larger amounts.
"If the media are prepared to make donations, we will take the money. There are a few propositions out there.
"We have had a couple of large companies involved in the film industry approach us about a long-term deal. IMG and the production company behind Touching The Void have approached Kate and Gerry. They have sent them a tape to watch to see the sort of film they make. We have only had a preliminary discussion."

Kate and Gerry McCann: Negotiating over a film of Madeleine's disappearance
Touching The Void, which earned £7 million at the box office, is the most successful British-made documentary, winning best British film at the 2004 Baftas and an Evening Standard best film.
Directed by Oscar-winner Kevin Macdonald and made by the London-based production company Darlow Smithson, it tells the story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates and their near-fatal attempt to climb a mountain in the Peruvian Andes through a mixture of interviews with them and dramatic reconstructions.
A movie of the McCanns' torment in the Algarve, if made by the Touching The Void team, could follow a similar method.
The source close to the McCanns warned that the couple will only be able to begin negotiations in earnest provided their status as official suspects - or arguidos - is lifted by Portuguese police.
The couple's lawyers will apply for it to be removed in the coming months, once the doctors, both aged 39, have been re-interviewed by police amid reports that forensic evidence against them is at best "indicative" of their involvement in Madeleine's disappearance.

Director Kevin Macdonald, who made 2004's Touching The Void
They insist the girl was abducted from their holiday apartment eight months ago as they ate at a nearby tapas restaurant and that she could still be alive. The source added: "The million-pound film deal is possible. It is the sort of thing we would look at seriously because in one fell swoop we could resolve the funding of the search overnight.
"What would really help is for the arguido status to be lifted and then a wave of sympathy would lead to more money coming in."
The meeting tomorrow follows the resignation of key board members, including the fund's spokeswoman Esther McVey.
The fund agreed a deal in the autumn to pay the Barcelona-based agency Metodo 3 a retainer of £50,000 a month for six months to find Madeleine. Metodo 3 has come in for criticism over comments made by its boss Francisco Marco, including one that he knew who kidnapped Madeleine and a promise to find her by Christmas.
The fund has also been criticised for paying two months' worth of mortgage payments, amounting to a few thousand pounds, on the McCanns' home while they were in Portugal and unable to work.
The services of the family's official spokesman, Clarence Mitchell, as well as the McCanns' legal team, is paid for by the couple's multi-millionaire supporter Brian Kennedy.