Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation

Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation

Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation is a 1989 American fan film, made as a shot-for-shot remake of the 1981 Indiana Jones adventure film Raiders of the lost Ark. Set in 1936, the film pits Indiana Jones against a group of Nazis who are searching for the Ark of the Covenant.

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Summary Raiders of the Lost Ark: The AdaptationRaiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation is a 1989 American fan film, made as a shot-for-shot remake of the 1981 Indiana Jones adventure film Raiders of the lost Ark. Set in 1936, the film pits Indiana Jones against a group of Nazis who are searching for the Ark of the Covenant. Shooting for the film began in 1982, when Strompolos, Zala and Lamb were only 12 years old, and continued over the next seven summers.

It was made on a shoe-string budget of around USD 5000, greatly contrasting with the original’s USD 18 million budget. The boys went their separate ways, going off to college, and the film was largely forgotten. In 2002, Eli Roth gave a copy to Ain’t It Cool News’ Harry Knowles, hoping that Knowles would screen it at that year’s Butt-Numb-a-Thon film festival.