Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made

The official companion book to the hit feature-length documentary Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made in theaters and on video on demand June 27th 2016. In 1982 in Ocean Springs Mississippi Chris Strompolos eleven asked Eric Zala twelve a question: Would you like to help me do a remake Raiders of the Lost Ark? Im 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 Indys 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.. Alan Eisenstocks 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.