Movie novelizations, as well as comic book adaptations.

[Ultimo Gallos]

Years back the local library had the novelization of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake.

Wow it wasn't great. Lots of all caps with !!!!!!!

Now wish they still had it cause that book is pretty hard to find.

[YAKMAN is ICHIBAN]

Wasn’t joking



Preserved like a fine leaf inside, a 1993 sears receipt from Calgary

[pinja]

Sept 28, 2022 2:17:02 GMT -5 Ultimo Gallos said:

Years back the local library had the novelization of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake.

Wow it wasn't great. Lots of all caps with !!!!!!!

Now wish they still had it cause that book is pretty hard to find.

It's also needlessly long, around 450 pages. German edition can be found easily for 50 cents, same goes for others like Wicker Man and Dawn of the Dead which I'd expect to be quite expensive in English.

[agent817]

Sept 28, 2022 20:03:17 GMT -5 YAKMAN is ICHIBAN said:

Wasn’t joking



Preserved like a fine leaf inside, a 1993 sears receipt from Calgary

Ooh, now this sparked my curiosity.

[agent817]

Sept 12, 2022 1:30:19 GMT -5 Big DSR Energy said:

Sept 12, 2022 1:16:24 GMT -5 Limity (BLM) said:

I was big into them when I was younger, and was always confused when they had additional scenes not in the movies.

Do they still do them to this day? I can't imagine the mdemand being there anymore.

A couple weeks back I was at the local thrift store, saw they had a novelization of the 2016 Ghostbusters movie.


Boutique Blu-Ray label Severin Films has a number of novelizations on their website. These were recently written books adapting films from the 70/80/90s. I have one, haven't read it yet, but my understanding is the author, Brad Carter, added a bunch of stuff to make them more raunchy and/or violent.

I actually bought the novelizations of the Ghostbusters films. There was one with 1 and 2 compiled in one book. I also bought the one for the 2016 film. Funny thing is that I saw that there were junior novel versions of the films. I decided to go with the other ones instead of the junior novels. I had skimmed through the one of the 2016 film. It looked like there was more backstory in there.

[Dr. T is an alien]

Sept 14, 2022 0:02:05 GMT -5 saneiac said:

I read the novelization of Dick Tracy [1990], which had some significant differences from the movie. Most notably, the movie version of confusing villain The Blank was killed and unmasked at the end as Breathless Mahoney, a major character and Tracy ally in the movie played by Madonna. It was an unmasking that made as much sense as Vince McMahon: Higher Power. In the book, The Blank was killed and unmasked and revealed to be some guy nobody recognized who never gets identified.

So the movie was nonsense and the book was an anti-climax. Take your pick.

Sept 12, 2022 23:28:20 GMT -5 wildojinx said:

Not really a movie novelization, but I have a copy of the book version of the Death and Return of Superman by Roger Stern. Pretty much an abridged version of the comic storyline, but it's still pretty good and well-written.

Similar to this, I read the novelization of Batman No Man's Land. I never read the actual comics, but the novelization was terrific.

I was at least very surprised by the Breathless Mahoney reveal, in no small part because I had read the original comics including the storyline about The Blank, where The Blank was a disfigured criminal whose last name was Redrum (I think. It’s been almost 40 years since I read it).

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Just finished the Ghostbusters / Ghostbusters 2 audiobook (for the 35th anniversary they released an audiobook of the original novelizations) and it was fun. Deleted scenes and gave a little background on what was going on with some of the minor characters.

I plan on reading the novelizations of Gremlins / Gremlins 2: The New Batch soon. The first book talks about how they are aliens and the second breaks the 4th wall in book form. 

[G✇JI☈A]

I listened to the “Godzilla: King of the Monsters” the movie novilaztion on Audible about a year ago.

Pretty much like the movie with some added exposition. Including some expanded scenes when the titans start rising.. Including Methuselah (the titan that emerges in Munich) ruining a couple’s picnic.

[darbus alan]

Matthew Stover's novelization of Revenge of the Sith is fantastic.

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Oh I also plan on reading the novelization of Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed. Each chapter is told 1st person from one of the four human characters.

[MiLB Fan]

My local library had a novelization of Halloween (2018 version) available as an e-book, so I decided to check it out. It’s my first time reading one of these books since I was a kid.

I remember reading a Dumb and Dumber novelization around the time the movie came out. The book had an extra scene in which the guys order fast food at a drive-thru, and drive off without getting their food. The author replaced the movie’s line “I knew I wanted to bone her” with the tamer “I knew I wanted her to be my main squeeze.” And remember the briefcase full of money? In the book, it’s revealed that all the money is counterfeit, but Bernard assures Harry and Lloyd that the Swansons will reimburse everyone who was affected.

I also read novelizations of the Richie Rich movie starring Macaulay Culkin, and The Mask. The books and movies were largely similar to each other from what I can recall.

One thing all these books had in common was that the front cover had a little note that the novel had “8 Pages of Full-Color Photos From the Movie.”

[agent817]

So recently I had been reading the "True Lies" novelization. There were some things that I wondered were in the script but were obviously left out of the movie. For example, there was a scene when Harry talked to some new recruits for the Omega Sector, like if he was giving a presentation. There was also a bit that touches on Aziz's backstory, which was interesting for some context. On top of that, I didn't expect a scene where Harry and Gib find Dana, who turned out to be not only in a band but also the lead singer.

Also, in regards to sequel novels, I had also read a couple of "Men in Black" books that had Jay and Elle partnered up and worked on some cases.

[Talent Name]

I know the Home Alone novelization explains what Kevin's parents did

[Deleted]

I never understood wanting to read a comic or book straight up based on a movie. Even as a kid the only one I had was the one based on the first TMNT movie. The only thing it was good for was trying to relive the movie before it came out on VHS.

[agent817]

I got these two in the mail.


What's crazy is that the T2 novel had this inside.

[fw91]

There was one for Karate Kid. I kept on mentally pronouncing Elizabeth Shue's character Ali in a different way. As in Muhammed Ali.

[pinja]

Apr 12, 2023 23:02:29 GMT -5 agent817 said:

I got these two in the mail.


What's crazy is that the T2 novel had this inside.

I love those findings inside books! And I envy you for the novelisation of "Terminator". "Terminator 2" was easy to find for me, but so far I only got my hands on a French copy of the first one. Interestingly enough there is a second novelisation of it. It's written by Shaun Hudson and was released in the UK a few months prior to this one.

Randall Frakes has worked directly with Cameron on T and T2, so the novelisations might actually be good.

[Jedi-El of Tomorrow]

Superman Returns had it mentioned that Lex and Kal Penn's character were the ones behind scientists thinking they had found Krypton, they had set it all up. Also had Richard as a big Superman fan who wanted to meet him. There was also more with Jimmy, he hadn't sold or had a photo published for months, that was also a deleted scene, and it also gives payoff to Jimmy getting the photos of Superman catching the Daily Planet globe. It didn't have the reveal of Superman as Jason's father, Jason didn't even have powers.

[YAKMAN is ICHIBAN]

It found a home in my office bookshelf