By MICHAEL GINGOLD
The cult filmmaker’s most famous work is being immortalized in print.
Encyclopocalypse has announced that it will issue mass market and trade paperback editions, along with an e-book, of its PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE novelization on October 10, 2024–which would have been Edward D. Wood Jr.’s 100th birthday. The adaptation of Wood’s famous/infamous sci-fi/horror cheapie featuring Bela Lugosi, Tor Johnson, Vampira, paper-plate flying saucers and more was written by Bret Nelson, who reveals such shocking facts as:
- A real-life scientific explanation of Solaronite!
- All PLAN 9 plot holes patched with meticulously crafted connective tissue.
- Finally revealed: THE OTHER PLANS! (Spoiler alert: there were actually 10 plans! How is that possible, you ask? You’ll have to read to find out!)
“PLAN 9 is often called the worst movie ever made,” Nelson says. “I don’t agree. You’ve got visitors from another world, graveyards riddled with rising corpses, shootouts with the cops, flying saucers fighting the Army, alien abductions, and a government conspiracy to cover the whole thing up. That sounds like a great movie to me!”
The book will include a foreword by comedian and writer Dana Gould, who has put on numerous live stage reads of the PLAN 9 script with assorted genre and comedy names. In his essay, he writes, “PLAN 9 is more than a movie, it’s a way of life. A password. A secret handshake that signifies membership in very select group: smart folks with big hearts and evolved senses of humor. I’m speaking, of course, about weirdos.”
Encyclopocalypse president Mark Alan Miller adds, “I wish everyone could sit in a room with Bret and watch PLAN 9 with him. It’s an unparalleled experience. His genuine love for the movie spills onto every page of this novelization.”
U.S. pre-orders for the print editions and international pre-orders for the e-book are available now at Encyclopocalypse’s website. International pre-orders for the paperbacks will be available soon at assorted on-line booksellers.
