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Raiders! : the story of the greatest fan film ever made / Alan Eisenstock ; with Chris Strompolos and Eric Zala.

by Eisenstock, Alan.

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New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2012.

Strompolos, Chris.

Raiders of the lost ark (Motion picture)

Indiana Jones films -- Miscellanea.

Electronic Resource

http://www.netread.com/jcusers2/bk1388/474/9781250001474/image/lgcover.9781250001474.jpg

9781250001474 (hardback)

1250001471 (hardback)

306 p. ; 25 cm.

"In 1982, in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, Chris Strompolos, eleven, asked Eric Zala, twelve, a question: "Would you like to help me do a remake of Raiders of the Lost Ark? I'm playing Indiana Jones." And they did it. Every shot, every line of dialogue, every stunt. They borrowed and collected costumes, convinced neighborhood kids to wear grass skirts and play natives, cast a fifteen-year-old as Indy's love interest, rounded up seven thousand snakes (sort of), built the Ark, the Idol, the huge boulder, found a desert in Mississippi, and melted the bad guys' faces off. It took seven years. Along the way, Chris had his first kiss (on camera), they nearly burned down the house and incinerated Eric, lived through parents getting divorced and remarried, and watched their friendship disintegrate. Raiders! is the incredible true story of Eric Zala and Chris Strompolos, how they realized their impossible dream of remaking Raiders of the Lost Ark, and how their friendship survived all challenges, from the building of a six-foot-round fiberglass boulder to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. "--

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