Criminal gets million-dollar movie deal

That "Barefoot" guy.

August 11, 2011 at 2:03PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
This July 2009 self-portrait provided Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009 by the Island County Sheriff's Office shows Colton Harris-Moore.  Harris-Moore is suspected in about 50 burglary cases since he slipped away from a halfway house in April 2008. The photo was found by deputies on a stolen digital camera. (AP Photo/Island County Sheriff's Office via The Herald)  NO SALES
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Crime pays? Not so fast.

Depending on the creative team's approach, it'll either be Tragic Romantic Story of a rebel who couldn't live by society's stifling rules, and was thus forced to steal airplanes and burgle houses to fully realize his potential, or it'll be a straight story that still gets your sympathies, like Mann's movie about Dillinger. Either way, he won't be at the premiere; he faces at least a decade in jail. Given the fact that he's been a criminal since he started a housebreaking career at the age of 10, it's a start. Although I'm sure his mother is outraged he's doing any time at all. From a Time magazine piece:

Lovely people. He has a Facebook fan page, too. And his very own ballad!

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