Indiana Jones: The kids who remade a blockbuster

Lives Less Ordinary

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.6 • 814 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In 1982, two Mississippi boys recreated a $22m film, shot-for-shot, on their pocket money.

Chris Strompolos and Eric Zala were aged 10 and 11. Their mission would take them seven years to complete, and it would push their friendship to the edge. There’d be amateur stunts, fires, visits to the emergency ward, production shut down by angry parents and many fallouts. It would swallow them whole.

But decades later a lost tape would be unearthed, bringing Eric and Chris back together for their final scene and face-to-face with one of their heroes.

Presenter: India Rakusen Producer: Edgar Maddicott Editor: Munazza Khan

Transcript

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0:00.0	On a winter's night in 1974, a crime took place that would obsess the nation.
0:06.9	It was an extraordinary news story.
0:09.1	The story of an aristocrat, Lord Lucan, who's said to have killed the family Nanny,
0:13.7	mistaking her for his wife, then somehow just disappeared.
0:18.0	One of the great mysteries in English criminal history.
0:20.7	We're still looking for Lucan.
0:22.1	It's honestly one of the most powerful stories of my lifetime.
0:25.9	I'm Alex Fontunzelman.
0:27.3	This is The Lucan Obsession.
0:29.2	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:31.7	That 56 seconds, it took me to swim that gold medal win.
0:36.9	I looked for that feeling for 30 years,
0:41.4	and I never found it. A podcast about the people behind the medals. On the podium from the BBC World
0:49.2	Service. Find it wherever you get your BBC podcasts.
0:57.5	Hi, I'm Indyraxon.
1:01.4	Welcome to this edition of Lives Less Ordinary.
1:11.5	When I was little, getting lost in imaginary worlds of play was one of my favourite things to do.
1:17.6	There were the long summer holidays fighting with cousins over the main part in some spy film rip-off we'd written,
1:21.6	pinching dress pearls and bowler hats for costumes from my grandparents' room.
1:26.3	Rehearsing all day in the garage, ready for the big performance.
1:32.0	Evenings after school, where my sister and I would spend hours watching and recreating lightsaber fights from the latest Star Wars film, wanting to feel that we were part of the
1:37.2	action, time stretching out in front of us. And sure, it's just make-believe, but it's consuming. It matters so much to you. It takes you
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