Was it just a matter of perfect timing, seeing Raiders at age 11? Would you have tried this with any other film?Ĭhris Strompolos: When I was a kid I had a fascination with Star Wars, and obviously loved Han Solo. Inverse spoke to Strompolos and Zala about embodying Indy, why they didn’t just give up after all these years, and their future filmmaking plans.
The doc not only explores the making of Strompolos and Zala’s fan film, but it also shows their more recent attempt to finish the one scene they had initially left out: Indy’s the famous brawl near the Nazi airplane. The remarkable journey is featured in the new documentary Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made from directors Jeremy Coon and Tim Skousen, which hit theaters and VOD on Friday.
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What started as a summer project in 1982 grew into a decades-long quest to recreate the movie as faithfully as possible. They called it Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation. At 11-years-old, the duo gathered up a group of their friends and set out to remake Steven Spielberg’s 1981 adventure classic Raiders of the Lost Ark in its entirety, shot-for-shot. Backyard filmmaking is a rite of passage for young movie fans, and back before digital tools and iPhones made high-def productions achievable, these passion projects were largely lovingly made disasters: filled with sketchy effects and moms calling kids in for dinner.īut that wasn’t the case for childhood best friends Chris Strompolos and Eric Zala, who went above and beyond what seemed even possible for a bunch of pre-pubescent teens at the time.
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