In 1982, in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, 11-year-old Chris Strompolos asked 12-year-old Eric Zala a question: “Would you like to help me remake RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK? I'm playing Indiana Jones.” Over the next seven years, they would do just that: 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 15-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.

Yet one thing remained incomplete: The Flying Wing Scene, in which Indy faces off against a hulking bald Nazi around a moving airplane. And it would have remained that way, if not for a chance screening of their remake That propelled Chris and Eric’s childhood dream to a cult classic, and earned the praise of RAIDERS director Steven Spielberg, who called it “the greatest bit of flattery that George [Lucas] and I have ever received.” Now, ten years after that big break and 32 years after they started shooting, Chris and Eric have completed their vision.

Dir: Eric Zala, 1989, USA

Screening as part of a selection of PhilaMOCA favorites from the past.

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RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK: THE ADAPTATION

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