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I have to admit, I’ve never seen the 1991 cult classic Vegas in Space, which was distributed by Troma Entertainment – but it has become clear to me that the production had a fascinating behind-the-scenes story. Not only was the making of the movie the subject of a book by Craig Seligman called Who Does That Bitch Think She Is?, but now Deadline reports that Joshua Grannell, better known under the drag name Peaches Christ, is set to direct a film adaptation of that book!

Grannell has also written the screenplay for Who Does That Bitch Think She Is? with Michael Varrati, whose credits include My Acting Coach Nightmare, Aquarium of the Dead, The Wrong Stepmother, and Christmas with You. In director Phillip R. Ford’s all-drag science fiction flick, Vegas in Space, written by Ford and star Doris Fish, three male space travelers from Earth undergo sex-change operations in order...

The story behind Troma’s all-drag sci-fi comedy Vegas in Space will be told in a new film based on Craig Seligman’s 2023 book Who Does That Bitch Think She Is?: Doris Fish and the Rise of Drag.

Deadline reports that Peaches Christ, the drag persona of Joshua Grannell (All About Evil), will direct Who Does That Bitch Think She Is?from a script they co-wrote with their Midnight Mass podcast co-host, Michael Varrati (“The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula”).

In the 1991 cult classic, directed by Phillip R. Ford and co-written by star Doris Fish, three male space travelers from Earth undergo sex-change operations in order to solve a jewel heist on a planet occupied solely by women.

Principal photography on Vegas in Space spanned 18 months, but it took Ford and Fish eight years to raise the funds to complete the movie. Fish died from complications with AIDS mere months before the film’s premiere.

The behind-the-scenes story of the 1991 Troma Films cult classic Vegas in Space is getting the biopic treatment from director Peaches Christ (drag persona of Joshua Grannell).

Ahead of the Phillip R. Ford-helmed film’s July 11 screening at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Deadline can exclusively reveal that Grannell (All About Evil) will helm an adaptation of Craig Seligman’s 2023 book Who Does That Bitch Think She Is?, from a script by Grannell and Michael Varrati (Netflix’s Christmas with You).

In Phillip R. Ford’s all-drag science fiction flick, Vegas in Space, written by Ford and star Doris Fish, three male space travelers from Earth undergo sex-change operations in order to solve a jewel heist on a planet occupied solely by women.

A legendary San Francisco drag queen, Fish died from complications with AIDS in 1991, months before the film’s premiere.

“I first discovered Vegas in Space as a teenager in Maryland,...