All three movies in Ti West's X trilogy are getting novelizations

Even though MaXXXine is supposedly the last movie in the X trilogy helmed by Ti West and star Mia Goth, Bloody Disgusting is now reporting that "retro-style novelizations" of the three films are in the works, with the first one scheduled for release this September!

The books will be penned by Tim Waggoner, a Bram Stoker Award-winning author who has written many of these kinds of novelizations before, including the upcoming book version of Terrifier 2. Waggoner has also written novels for the Alien and Halloween franchise, specifically the Halloween Ends novelization and the story Alien: Prototype.

Apart from media tie-ins, Waggoner has written many original horror novels and YA books, as well as his writing help books, the Writing in the Dark series.

The first of his X trilogy novels starts with, obviously, X, an adaptation of the movie that started it all. It will be released on September 24. Released in 2022, the 1979-set slasher follows the cast of an adult film intending to shoot on a rural homestead in Texas. Things quickly go awry when the homeowners begin murdering the cast and crew. Maxine Minx (Mia Goth) is the only survivor.

Prequel film Pearl, which also released in 2022, follows the origins of X killer Pearl, also played by Goth. The novel version of Pearl is also scheduled for a 2024 release, though it doesn't have a set date yet.

Finally, the novelization of the third movie in the trilogy, the recently-released MaXXXine, is on track for a 2025 release date. MaXXXine is the official sequel to X and takes place six years after the Texas massacre resulting in the deaths of all of her friends.

Per the source, A24 teased, “Author Tim Waggoner translates West’s vision into pulpy print format with grisly new details drawn from the original screenplay.”

You can view photos of the covers at the Bloody Disgusting article.