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RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK: THE ADAPTATION

After seeing Raiders of the Lost Ark in 1981, three 12 year old friends, Chris Strompolos, Eric Zala and Jayson Lamb, began filming their own shot-by-shot adaptation in the backyards of their Mississippi homes. Seven years later their film was in the can, complete with the rolling boulder, a submarine, live snakes, the heart-thudding truck sequence, the melting face, the same copy of a 1936 Life magazine that was used in the original, and everywhere flames, flames and more flames.
Fourteen years later, in 2003, Eli Roth (Cabin Fever) screened a bootleg copy in the middle of the night at Austins legendary Alamo Drafthouse Cinema. The film instantly became the stuff of legend.
And in 2004, it was announced that Hollywood producer Scott Rudin had purchased the life rights of Eric, Jayson and Chris to make a biographical film about their experiences making Raiders: The Adaptation. Writer Daniel Clowes is currently working on the screenplay. To be released by Paramount Pictures.

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