South Texas Blues book digs into the making of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, is set to become a limited series

If you’re a fan of Tobe Hooper’s 1974 classic The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (watch it HERE), there’s a good chance you might have heard about South Texas Blues at some point over the last couple decades. Christopher Garetano has been dreaming of making a narrative feature (or limited series) about the making of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre for a long time, and wrote the first draft of that project – titled South Texas Blues – back in 2006. As he has worked to bring the idea to the screen, he has also had sections of the script illustrated and published in the pages of Fangoria magazine and had plans to turn it into a three-part graphic novel, but only the first part of that adaptation was ever published. Now the script for South Texas Blues has been published in its entirety and copies of the book can be purchased at THIS LINK!

South Texas Blues makes its way out into the world as a book with a page count of 269 – and 209 of those pages are taken up by the script. Featured on the other pages are storyboards that were drawn up for the opening sequence, a foreword by former Fangoria editor-in-chief Chris Alexander, and notes from Garetano himself.

Here’s the book’s description: The incredible true story of the making of the most terrifying motion picture ever created… South Texas Blues is based on the true story of director, Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Poltergeist). In 1973, Hooper – a then thirty-year-old struggling filmmaker, far from Hollywood, entered a personal inferno while he constructed the most infamous motion picture of all time. Embark on this cerebral journey through the minds-eye of a brilliant, madman director as he manifests The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. From conception to pre-production and ultimately its creation, Christopher Garetano’s South Texas Blues is a movie maker’s apocalypse.

Now that fans can read the words on the page, South Texas Blues is also closer to reaching the screen than ever before, as Garetano has confirmed that he’s working with “a major studio/network” to turn the concept into a limited series in 2024!

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is one of my all-time favorite movies and it has one of the most fascinating “making of” stories ever told, so I’m very interested to find out how Garetano has envisioned it.

Will you be buying a copy of the South Texas Blues book? What do you think of this story becoming a limited series? Let us know by leaving a comment below.