Daniel Clowes working on Indiana Jones-inspired film

The Sun Herald has a story up on Ghostworld's Daniel Clowes writing an as-yet-unnamed film about three guys who shoot a shot-for-shot remake of Raiders of the Lost Ark:

Over a period of about seven years, beginning in 1982, childhood friends Chris Strompolos, Eric Zala and Jayson Lamb remade their favorite film. Years later, a copy surfaced at NYU film school, eventually finding its way to a young filmmaker named Eli Roth. Roth, whose films now include the gorefests "Cabin Fever" and "Hostel," along with AintItCoolNews.com founder Harry Knowles, premiered the movie at a 24-hour film marathon in Austin, Texas.

The film quickly gained underground cult status, and in 2004 the story behind the remake landed in the pages of Vanity Fair, catching the attention of producer Scott Rudin, who is a very, very big deal in Hollywood. Rudin then reportedly spent "an amount in the mid-six figures" to buy the "life rights," or the rights to tell the story of their adventure, from Strompolos, Zala and Lamb.

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Daniel Clowes, the only comic book professional to be nominated for an Oscar (for "Ghost World"), was hired by Rudin to write the script. (Clowes second film, "Art School Confidential," stars Max Minghella, John Malkovich, Jim Broadbent and Anjelica Houston, and recently premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.)