Wood captured only a few minutes of footage featuring the former "Dracula" star. Unfortunately, the drug-addled Lugosi died the day after filming began. Wood, an unapologetic transvestite who was fond of wearing women's angora sweaters, started a 1956 horror film called "Ghoul Man" with Lugosi as his star. Martin Landau won a best-supporting actor Oscar for his portrayal of Bela Lugosi, the fallen horror-movie star who began working with Wood in the '50s at the twilight of his film career. "Batman" director Tim Burton is such a fan of Wood's work that he made the biopic "Ed Wood" in 1994 with Johnny Depp playing the title role. The making of the original "Plan 9 From Outer Space" is the stuff of legend. "Hey, it's an interesting film-making exercise, if nothing else," Wester said. Without some context, it's not going to make a lick of sense to people who've never seen the original."Īfter that, it's headed to your local video store and. "We want to show it on a double bill with the original. "The Film Society will show it sometime around Halloween and, who knows, it might play Movies 8," Wester said. Wood's original, shot on film, cost $20,000. Thanks to video, computer-generated special effects and a cast of unpaid actors, Abbott's "Plan 9 - Nex-Gen" will end up costing a bargain-basement price in the neighborhood of $40,000. We're not talking art-house fare or Oscar bait here. The low-budget remake, which is "trying to keep the flavor of the original," according to Abbott, is being made for the straight-to-video-and-DVD markets. They were playing killer-babe aliens dressed up in skintight silver suits. Meanwhile, Abbott, who has done everything from retool the script to design the costumes, was busy directing a pair of actresses.
Wester, who signed on as co-producer for "Plan 9 - Nex-Gen," had a sheepish look on his face as if to say: "Hey, who knew he was really going to take me up on this?" On a recent Sunday morning, more than a year after that fateful night, Wester stood on a sound stage at Fox 49 studios in Midway that was serving as that day's set for "Plan 9 From Outer Space - Nex-Gen." Why not reconsider and reconfigure the alleged worst film of all time?
Abbott already had plenty of film and editing equipment thanks to his commercial-making company, Crash & Annie Productions. He began research on the Internet, where he discovered Wood had left no heirs and the copyright had expired on the original script. Abbott, however, was intrigued by the challenge.
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