Roads not taken: the Indiana Jones radio spec demo

Oh man I am so excited I found this in my files.

Back when there was talk of a fourth Indiana Jones movie I proposed we approach Lucasfilm to see if we could do a stunting “pop-up” radio station to tease the new film.

The challenge was we knew almost nothing about the film other than “Russians” (and weren’t sure of the correct version of the film’s title). We also weren’t going to have access to Harrison Ford.

I love such challenges, so we positioned it as an old-time radio serial being aired on the “British World Service” – and used static bursts and dropouts (presumably you were listening on shortwave in the Theater Of The Mind) to work around the challenges.

A fully realized version of this would have run 24/7 and over time “leaked” some teaser plot details. I also would have timed it out to make the news actually run at the top of the hour because I’m particular like that.

The project never went forward, but this was one of my favorite side-dreams form back in the day.

Audio production by Greg Schweizer, voices by Ghosty, script by me.

You can find some of my other work in my portfolio. If you’ve made it this far you probably would also be interested in Star Wars Celebration Radio, also one of my favorites with some great imaging pieces featuring the cast from The Clone Wars.