RAIDERS!: THE STORY OF THE GREATEST FAN FILM EVER MADE Gets A Poster And A Trailer

Your childhood probably wasn’t this cool.

By May. 10, 2016

Way way way back in the day, three kids - Chris Strompolos, Eric Zala, and Jayson Lamb - decided to remake Raiders of the Lost Ark shot for shot. It took them their whole childhoods, but they eventually got it done - all except for the big airport set piece. Now they’re grown up and finally righting that wrong.

That’s the story documented by Drafthouse Film’s Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made, the trailer for which you can watch below:

Also, check out the poster (via IndieWire):

As you can see, Raiders! seems to have that special quality shared by great documentaries where tons of real pathos gets uncovered by an examination of something very silly on the surface. It’s plenty wacky that these guys made a fan film, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t a massive undertaking that affected their life.

The film hits theaters and VOD June 17, but Strompolos and Zala are taking both the documentary and their actual fan film on the road for a tour of double features followed by Q&As. If you live around any of these cities, you should totally check it out:

June 2 – Seattle (Northwest Film Forum)
June 3 – Portland (Hollywood Theatre)
June 9 – San Francisco (Alamo Drafthouse Mission)
June 10 – Austin (Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar)
June 11 – Houston (Alamo Drafthouse Vintage Park)
June 12 – Los Angeles (Cinefamily)
June 14 – Dallas (Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Dallas)
June 17 – New York (IFC Film Center)
June 18 or 19 – Chicago (Music Box Theatre)
June 20 – Boston (The Brattle Theatre)
June 30 – Kansas City (Alamo Drafthouse Main Street)
July 1 - Denver (Alamo Drafthouse Littleton)
July 2 - Denver (Sie FilmCenter)

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