How the fuck does 20th Century Fox “buy the rights to [Colton Harris-Moore’s] untold story[?]” That shit is absurd.

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31 replies on “Re: Game Over: Colton Harris-Moore Arrested in Bahamas”

  1. It’s not absurd to his mommy, the person who put it up for sale, the person who has to figure out how to pay for the lawyers he’s gonna need.

  3. My point is that it’s absurd that someone or something could own the rights to such a thing. Ridiculous.

  4. There is such a thing as life rights, and book publishers and movie studios usually ‘buy’ these rights from the subject of a planned biographical book or film, or their family if the person is dead or otherwise unreachable. Others can make films or write books about the subject, but they might get sued.

  5. Er, I was wrong anyway, the 20th Century purchase was of the rights to film a particular version of the story written by this one fellow Bob Friel. All it means is that nobody else can film that version, the boy himself apparently is not in for a piece of the action on it.

    http://outlawsandoutcasts.blogspot.com/

  6. It’s worth it at ten times the price. Bob Friel’s intense, soulful telling speaks to you on a deeper level than any other version could ever hope to.

  7. Coincidentally, I have just today filed documents protecting my intellectual-property rights regarding a story about a low-level employee at a scrappy independent “newspaper” who is incentivized to “monitor” the Web servers over a holiday period, and after many hilarious adventures is found by his compatriots passed out on the conference-room table surrounded by a halo of empty Rize cans, a weight-lifting thong, and–what was it again?–oh yes, a well-thumbed copy of The Butt Book. ‘Scuse me, the phone is ringing.

  11. The weirdest shit is that he had over 65,000 facebook followers! The guy’s a fucking crook and people are making out like he’s some sort of folk hero for destroying other people’s property. BFD he had a hard childhood. Lots of people do but they don’t aspire to become folk hero criminals.

  13. No dude, if he was black, his name would have been D’Colton ‘Cash’ Harris and he would not have broken into places at night and stolen stuff, he would have done it in broad daylight, shot some poor Korean immigrant, grinned at the surveillance camera on the way out and then been caught five hours later playing on his Xbox at his girfriend’s place, the get-away car seen on the video parked out front and the murder weapon hidden in his saggy-assed pants because he was too cheap to throw it away.

    Don’t you ever watch my favorite black comedy show on TV, “The First 48”? My favorite part is when they confess, start crying and ask when they can go home to see their mamas.

  14. Spain wins and Colton gets caught its a sad day. I have the feeling they are going to stick it to him for making the authorities look foolish and living outside of the system.

    @14 LOL

  15. @2 Boy, I’m sure you’d love having someone 6’3″ robbing you at gunpoint like he was doing.

  16. @12:
    Apparently, you haven’t seen “Bonnie and Clyde”, “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”, “Thelma and Louise”, “The Fugitive”, “First Blood”, “Public Enemies”, “Natural Born Killers”, or any of the other thousands of movies romanticizing criminals on the run.

    Not weird at all.

  17. @17 True, though the premise of The Fugitive is that the man is innocent of his “crimes” so I don’t think it fits in.

  18. @17,

    Natural Born Killers was a commentary on our culture glorifying criminals. I don’t know what to say if you thought the audience was supposed to identify with Mickey and Mallory.

  19. OK, I’ve been out of contact with modern media for the past 9 days, and now all I see everywhere is this Colton Harris-Moore person (sounds like a peer of the realm). What’d I miss??

  22. @21: thanks, gloomy gus. That was quite a story. He sounds like a sociopath. Several parts of his tale hit home for me (I have a young relative who appears to be on a similar path, minus the glamorous escapades and the 45k+ facebook fans). Very sad.

  24. #22–I don’t see CHM = Frank Abagnale at all.

    Abagnale managed to convince people he was something he wasn’t… CHM stole and wrecked a bunch of shit.

    Hardly the same.

  25. I heard that Paul the Psychic Octopus tipped off the Bahamanian police as to Harris-Moore’s whereabouts. Next up – the gulf oil spill. Is there nothing he can’t do?

  28. @19
    OK, whatever, then replace “Natural Born Killers” with “Dukes of Hazard”, “Smokey and the Bandit”, or “Robinhood”. My point still stands.

    And for what’s it’s worth, I saw NBK as both romanticizing criminal violence and commenting on our fascination with it.

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