I love novelizations! I've gone through a bunch of them over the years. Often the endings are dramatically different, too. Tarantino did OUATIH and I hope he does more. It was excellent with a...
I love novelizations! I've gone through a bunch of them over the years. Often the endings are dramatically different, too. Tarantino did OUATIH and I hope he does more. It was excellent with a perfect ending.
It's missing The Fantastic Voyage, which had a novelization written by Isaac Asimov. Never saw the film, but read the novel for school. One neat detail: Asimov changed the ending a bit so that the...
It's missing The Fantastic Voyage, which had a novelization written by Isaac Asimov. Never saw the film, but read the novel for school.
One neat detail: Asimov changed the ending a bit so that the crew managed to remove the submarine instead of leaving it behind like the movie. Because otherwise, the submarine would grow back to normal size and kill the guy because submarines are MUCH bigger than human bodies. (I choose to believe the film ended right before that happened.)
Oh that is very interesting! The book is based on the movie script but the book was released before the movie so people assume the movie is based on the book
Oh that is very interesting! The book is based on the movie script but the book was released before the movie so people assume the movie is based on the book
I still own my copy of Space Balls: The Book from the 80s that I got at a book fair as a kid. It is more or less a direct translation other than they changed out the curse words to kids friendly...
I still own my copy of Space Balls: The Book from the 80s that I got at a book fair as a kid. It is more or less a direct translation other than they changed out the curse words to kids friendly versions (e.g. "I knew it, I'm surrounded by assholes!" becomes "I knew it, I'm surrounded by idiots!").
It isn't on the wikipedia page, so maybe it doesn't count because it was so close to the movie.
Sounds like a good place to mention B^F: The novelisation of the novelisation of Back to the Future, by Ryan North (most famously Dinosaur Comics and also some Marvel stuff). It's a page-by-page...
Sounds like a good place to mention B^F: The novelisation of the novelisation of Back to the Future, by Ryan North (most famously Dinosaur Comics and also some Marvel stuff). It's a page-by-page live review of the Back to the Future novelization from the 80s, and it's a wild ride. I haven't read the actual novelization, but B^F is amazing and has lots of North's trademark wit.
I read a little bit of the Wikipedia article for that, and it sounds like a peak into an alternate universe for what Star Wars could have been with the differences. Not going to spoil myself, but...
I read a little bit of the Wikipedia article for that, and it sounds like a peak into an alternate universe for what Star Wars could have been with the differences. Not going to spoil myself, but that goes on the to read list. Thanks for sharing!
We should create a page for novel-film-novel adaptations. I guess there aren't many examples, but it happens! One example is Leonore Fleischer's novelization Mary Shelley's Frankenstein:...
We should create a page for novel-film-novel adaptations. I guess there aren't many examples, but it happens!
One example is Leonore Fleischer's novelization Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: Novelization based on the 1994 film Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, of course based on Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein.
I remember randomly discovering and reading Total Recall maybe two decades ago, which is a particularly funny one as it's a book based on a film based on a short story. It wasn't good, but it was fun.
I remember randomly discovering and reading Total Recall maybe two decades ago, which is a particularly funny one as it's a book based on a film based on a short story. It wasn't good, but it was fun.
(film-to-book: not to be confused with book-to-film adaptations)
I love novelizations! I've gone through a bunch of them over the years. Often the endings are dramatically different, too. Tarantino did OUATIH and I hope he does more. It was excellent with a perfect ending.
It's missing The Fantastic Voyage, which had a novelization written by Isaac Asimov. Never saw the film, but read the novel for school.
One neat detail: Asimov changed the ending a bit so that the crew managed to remove the submarine instead of leaving it behind like the movie. Because otherwise, the submarine would grow back to normal size and kill the guy because submarines are MUCH bigger than human bodies. (I choose to believe the film ended right before that happened.)
Oh that is very interesting! The book is based on the movie script but the book was released before the movie so people assume the movie is based on the book
I still own my copy of Space Balls: The Book from the 80s that I got at a book fair as a kid. It is more or less a direct translation other than they changed out the curse words to kids friendly versions (e.g. "I knew it, I'm surrounded by assholes!" becomes "I knew it, I'm surrounded by idiots!").
It isn't on the wikipedia page, so maybe it doesn't count because it was so close to the movie.
I suspect this is...highly non-exhaustive.
Sounds like a good place to mention B^F: The novelisation of the novelisation of Back to the Future, by Ryan North (most famously Dinosaur Comics and also some Marvel stuff). It's a page-by-page live review of the Back to the Future novelization from the 80s, and it's a wild ride. I haven't read the actual novelization, but B^F is amazing and has lots of North's trademark wit.
https://www.lulu.com/shop/ryan-north/b-to-the-f-the-novelization-of-the-feature-film/ebook/product-20331257.html?page=1&pageSize=4
What a great idea! I opened just the Action ones and immediately - Air Force One and Assassins... Now to get them!
My personal favorite… (It's Star Wars)
I read a little bit of the Wikipedia article for that, and it sounds like a peak into an alternate universe for what Star Wars could have been with the differences. Not going to spoil myself, but that goes on the to read list. Thanks for sharing!
Absolutely; let me know if it’s as decent as I recall it being as I haven’t read it in about 30 years.
We should create a page for novel-film-novel adaptations. I guess there aren't many examples, but it happens!
One example is Leonore Fleischer's novelization Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: Novelization based on the 1994 film Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, of course based on Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein.
Not novel - film - novel, but the most similar thing I can think of would be
Street fighter: the movie arcade game
I remember randomly discovering and reading Total Recall maybe two decades ago, which is a particularly funny one as it's a book based on a film based on a short story. It wasn't good, but it was fun.