A Hollywood studio has paid more than $1 million to cover court-ordered restitution owed by Colton Harris-Moore, the infamous “Barefoot Bandit.”

The studio, 20th Century Fox, has paid the money in exchange for the rights to Harris-Moore’s story, from his days burglarizing homes and living in the woods on Camano Island to his cross-country odyssey stealing planes and boats and taunting police.

Harris-Moore’s story is now headed toward the big screen. The money mostly paid for three small airplanes he stole and crash-landed and a boat he took in the Bahamas while evading capture. He’s serving more than 7 1/2 years in prison.

The most recent payment — $900,000 — was processed by the U.S. Marshals Service on Nov. 4, according to documents filed in U.S. District Court in Seattle.

The studio previously paid more than $216,000 on Harris-Moore’s behalf. That’s all in keeping with a January 2013 forfeiture order approved by U.S. District Judge Richard Jones.

Harris-Moore claimed he taught himself to fly using manuals and a computer flight simulator. He wasn’t very good at landing, crashing all five of the planes he stole.

There’s no word about which actors may play Island County Sheriff Mark Brown, Prosecutor Greg Banks or Judge Vickie Churchill, all of whom played a role in the real-life drama.

Brown led an unsuccessful search to find Harris-Moore as he eluded deputies in the forested lands and vacation homes of Camano Island.

Banks worked with prosecutors in other counties to come up with sentencing recommendations in a hearing that brought national media to the county courthouse in Coupeville.

Churchill handed the Barefoot Bandit a middle-of-the-range sentence, saying that she was mindful of his difficult childhood.