Flamingos Forever

by John Waters

One part of John Waters’s iconic “Trash Trilogy,” Flamingos Forever is a dark-comedy screenplay about a drag queen trying to retain her title of “Filthiest Person in the World.”

Fifteen years after the events of Pink Flamingos, Babs Johnson returns to Baltimore from a life spent largely in bus station lavatories, only to find that she once again has to fight for the right to claim the title of “World’s Filthiest Person.” Her nemesis Connie Marble’s sister, Vera Venninger, and her necrophiliac husband, Wilbur, are in her way. So begins a new battle of filth.

This raucous, filthy—and essential!—volume in John Waters’s oeuvre never made it to the screen, so this is readers’ and his legions of fans’ one chance to see how this ghastly and irreverent saga meets its end!

96 pages, Paperback

Published May 27, 2025

About the author

John Samuel Waters, Jr. is an American filmmaker, actor, writer, personality, visual artist and art collector, who rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films: Pink Flamingos and Hairspray. He is recognizable by his pencil-thin moustache.

Reviews

[Myles · Rating 4 out of 5]

RIP Divine. RIP Edith Massey. I wish this could’ve gotten made. Honestly, pretty tame compared to Pink Flamingos, but it would’ve been such a fun sequel.

[kyndall · Rating 4 out of 5]

“NOBODY FUCKS WITH THE HIGH PRIESTESS OF FILTH!”



Tbh I was laughing out loud reading this because what the hell😭 it was just as crazy as pink flamingos.. just in a different way. They still had Edie in that comically large crib while Doyle was reading her Karl Marx as a bedtime story?😭
“COTTON II: Did hear that? She's talking!
DUANE She's growing up!
CRACKERS II: She's politically aware!
COTTON II: She's a Communist!”
I wish this would’ve been able to have been made I liked the story a lot more than pink flamingos and it would’ve been SO camp
The most sane part of the story being a magical turd that whisks Divine and her family away.. my god

Duane was my favorite character; god forbid a little boy is a drag queen…

[Taylor · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 / 5 - While not able to live up to its predecessor, I enjoyed the continued tale of the Filthiest Person Alive.

[Paula W · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thanks to Macmillan Audio, the amazing John Waters (author), and Libro.fm for providing a free advance audiobook of Flamingos Forever: A Screenplay expertly read by John Waters himself. Getting free stuff does not influence my reviews in any way.

I’m so happy to have gotten the chance to listen to this since the movie was never made. It is the 4th part of the ‘Trash Trilogy’ (yeah, I know) and is mild compared to the other three but still pretty trashy and wild and insane. I loved it!

[Jarry Barry · Rating 5 out of 5]

A truly fitting ending for any reader with a cock-eyed point of view

[princess pazuzu · Rating 5 out of 5]

fucking hilarious

[Gabriel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Enfin une suite que le peuple mérite et réclame ! La déesse Divine est de retour, filthier than ever, pour son plus grand combat à date : la destruction des plus grands a**holes du monde.

[Danilo Howat · Rating 4 out of 5]

Necrofilia, crianças usando crack, e cocô voador: o legado do Waters é realmente especial

[Lauren Langan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Glad to have finally read the script for the Pink Flamingos' sequel that never came to be. Ah yes, the adventures of Babs.....