Thursday, April 20, 2023

teenagers in Mississippi were so nuts about the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark in 1982, they remade it, found a submarine, built an ark and shot for shot remade the movie, (except the airplane scene) over 6 years finishing in 1988


skip the first 29 seconds, then see a side by side of the fan film, and the original (it's really great!)


the homage to the original film was unexpectedly discovered, praised by Spielberg, and pronounced by critics as the greatest fan film ever made.






So they had an airplane built so they could get that one critical scene right in 2014. Guy Klender even made a rubber monkey wrench.


A precise replica of the fictional Flying Wing airplane (inspired by history but not from it), moveable around an arc, with a 75” wingspan.

 Airplane construction chief Mark Spain, singlehandedly constructed the landing gear and did all the structural welding on the entire plane.

IT was taken apart, transported to the filming location, the scenes were recorded, then they blew it up, along with the fuel depot, and the air control tower

They had a documentary about it on Netflix, but it's not there anymore, the above screen grab is all I could get. It's not even in Netflix DVD, nor listed as a movie that was in stock, because it was only there 6 years ago

Raiders of the Lost Art: The Adaptation, was filmed in Vancleave, MS
You can hear an interview of one of the crew at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/raiders-of-the-lost-ark/id1381507437?i=1000422071103 at minute 51:26

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