A friend clued me into Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation, a shot-by-shot, Son of Rambow-style recreation (or “sweding,” if you will) which three
Mississippi 12-year-olds began filming in their backyards shortly after the release of the original Indiana Jones movie in 1981. Seven years later their film was in the can, and this Wednesday, it’s screening at the Mann Chinese 6 in Hollywood, at 8 p.m. For the diehards this is old news, I guess, but somehow this had all escaped my attention up until now, even though producer Scott Rudin purchased the trio’s life rights years ago, and Daniel Clowes is at work on a script for a big screen adaptation about their pubescent odyssey. By the way, shouldn’t Paramount have pushed that into production, and have it locked and loaded to come out at least around the same time as Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull? Or shall it eventually suffer the same ill-timed fate as the Weinstein Company’s Fanboys, which I think finished filming eight years ago?
