Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made (2015)

Directed by

Tim Skousen, Jeremy Coon

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 44m

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 72 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows three friends who as teenagers spent seven years remaking the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark shot for shot. Decades later they reunite to film one final missing scene they never got to finish.

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What happens

Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made is a 2015 American documentary film directed by Jeremy Coon and Tim Skousen. The film follows three childhood friends, Eric Zala, Chris Strompolos, and Jayson Lamb, from 1982 to 1989 as they set out to make a fan film of Raiders of the Lost Ark. 35 years later in 2014, it shows how they get back together to finish filming the "plane sequence", a previously missing scene from their remake. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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