Raiders: The Adaptation

The SF Indie Film Festival is showing a movie that has been called the "greatest fan film of all time"--Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation--this Saturday and Sunday. As The Indy Experience summarizes:

In 1982, three kids from Mississippi set out to create a shot-for-shot remake of Raiders of the Lost Ark and ended up making history. Twenty-one years later, their fan film creation has become an underground hit receiving attention from media elites such as CNN, Vanity Fair and even a nod from Steven Spielberg himself.

Check out the Wired, Vanity Fair (PDF) articles and the original Harry Knowles post from 2003. More info at TheRaider.net.

Info and tickets to the showing this weekend are here.

Here's the trailer: