30 days of ideas – 22: The Stainless Steel Rat (the movie)
This one’s a really simple idea: a film adaptation of the Stainless Steel Rat books by Harry Harrison.
The books are science fiction comedy/action/adventure stories about a witty and charming con artist in the distant future, who is himself conned into working for an intergalactic law enforcement authority – the Special Corps, whose entire method is to send a thief to catch a thief.
The main character, ‘Slippery’ Jim di Griz is the eponymous rat, whose attempts to catch the bad guy, escape his new ’employers’ (and the alternative of incarceration) – as well as his explosive interactions with his fellow criminals and his love interest – the even more sociopathic Angelina – would make for a fantastic, fast-paced action/comedy film.
