"Barefoot Bandit" signs movie deal, for victims

EVERETT, Wash. — The young Washington state man dubbed the Barefoot Bandit after a cross-country crime spree brought him folk outlaw status has reportedly signed a movie deal worth as much as $1.3 million with 20th Century Fox.

The Daily Herald reports that the money will be used to help pay the minimum $1.4 million that 20-year-old Colton Harris-Moore owes in restitution to the victims of his two-year-long crime spree.

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Seattle entertainment lawyer Lance Rosen negotiated the deal on Harris-Moore's behalf. He says it's an unusual amount of money to be paid for anyone's life story rights.

Harris-Moore pleaded guilty in June to seven federal felony charges. Sentencing is set for October. He still faces state court charges.

According to the Herald, Harris-Moore said in a statement that he would only agree to a deal if he did not earn anything from it.

The Everett, Washington local newspaper said he made the remarks in a written statement released by his attorneys.

"I am humbled to know I can now help the people I hurt, at least for the financial damage I caused them," Harris-Moore wrote, according to the Herald. "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."