Two brothers, Jeff and Robbie Benson, have taken it upon themselves to tell the story of fans' enormous love for the EarthBound series with a new documentary titled EarthBound, USA.

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The movie is "inspired by" fan site Starmen.net, which is dedicated to the "somewhat overlooked" series of games. For the past year, Jeff Benson has been interviewing fans of the game "in an attempt to document the space between a bunch of kids coming together on a message board," and the "re-emergence of a cult classic," in addition to the site Fangamer.net, in which Starmen.net played a formative role in founding."The documentary," begins Benson on the film's site, is "about how EarthBound fans have fought to popularize the Mother series in North America since the 1990s."The brothers had hoped to keep the existence of the documentary under wraps for a while longer, but "our last interviewee has a lot of Twitter followers."The interviewee to whom they were referring is Shigesato Itoi, creator of the EarthBound series."Just finished an interview with some American MOTHER 2 fans who came to see me. Some of them were in elementary school when they played it but are now married with children, and still have a love for the game to this day. I’ve had all sorts of projects in my time, but this game is definitely in a league of its own," Itoi posted to his Twitter feed last month.The movie's site also says that there is a Kickstarter planned for later this year, and the movie is set to release in 2015, "unless Mother 3 is released."

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