20 year old Colton Harris-Moore, known to most as The Barefoot Bandit, went on a two-year crime spree during his teens that ended with him crashing a plane he learned to fly himself.
20th Century Fox has picked up his life rights for $1.3 million, and Oscar-winning Milk scribe Dustin Lance Black is penning a screenplay about his exploits.
Colton Harris-Moore will not profit from the deal, as all $1.3 million will go to paying the victims he criminalized, to which he owes $1.4 million in restitution. The deal covers movie and ancillary rights.
Colton Harris-Moore had this to say about selling his story rights to 20th Century Fox.
There is no set production start date on The Barefoot Bandit.
“I did things that were not only a violation of law, but also of trust. I can’t undo what I did. I can only try to make things better. I am humbled to know I can now help the people I hurt, at least for the financial damage I caused them. I have absolutely zero interest in profiting from any of this and I won’t make a dime off it. It all goes to restitution. That’s what I insisted on from the beginning and the contract I signed guarantees it.”
