Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made

“It’s amazing that Steven Spielberg needed $20 million to make Raiders of the Lost Ark, and my dad only had his allowance”, says the son of one of three Mississippi teenagers who created in the 1980s a shot-for-shot remake of Spielberg’s film. It all started as a fan project, but became a Spielberg-plot itself: about coming-of-age, friendship and family, and above all that old American Dream: anything is possible.
The almost-finished project became cult fare after Eli Roth got his hands on a VHS copy in 2002 and brought it to Rotten Tomatoes founder Harry Knowles, who showed it on Butt-Numb-A-Thon, his 24-hour ‘geekstravaganza’. In 2014, the now-adult fans rekindled the dream to complete their remake.
Apparently director Jeremy Coon and producer Scott Rudin are considering a fiction remake of this real life story, which proves that truth is always stranger than fiction. Film introduced by a video essay by Juan Daniel F. Molero.