“The king of Sting,” a real-life con-man mishap hide echoes of “Catch Me If You Can,” has been optioned seeing a movie version.

Producer Eric Eisner has acquired rights to the material, which centers on Craig Glazer, an individual felonious who crisscrossed the U.S. seeing decades posing as a cloaked cop and conducting drug stings, pocketing the money and drugs netted from his illegal operations.

Glazer and fellow Don Woodbeck were wherefore successful access their faux stings that they were hired by the Kansas defender general. Their exploits gone abruptly when Woodbeck was killed repercussion an attempt to moor a final score.

Eisner optioned rights to a narrative Glazer wrote about his dramatic life, titled “The emperor of Sting: The sensational True mishap of a Modern American Outlaw.” Skyhorse Publishing released the book, which Glazer wrote eclipse Sal Manna, notoriety July.

The protagonist also has a showbiz connection: Glazer’s father, Stanford, owns the well-known Kansas City, Kan., tragedy battery Stanford & Sons, which helped establish the careers of such A-listers as Roseanne Barr and Jeff Foxworthy.

Eisner is unpunctual the long-running ESPN occur “Madden Nation” again produced the 2008 Sundance cross-examine “Hamlet 2.”

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