 Writer Chip Zdarsky, who took on Howard's comics in the 2010s, revealed he was a fan of the movie growing up, and had the 2016 run of the title featuring metafictional references to the film.The plot had Lea Thompson hiring Howard and discovering the villain Mojo had hypnotized her into playing Beverly opposite an alien in a Howard costume.A video game based on the film, was released for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Apple II in 1986 and for the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC in 1987, developed by Alternative Software and published by Activision.