I enjoy a good novelization. Novelizations are adaptations of movies, and follows the reverse of movie adaptations. You need to pad out the story for proper book length just as you take stuff out to fit a movie run time, so you add information that wouldn’t be in the movie. Scenes that were cut either during filming or editing may still be in the latest draft the author had available to get the book out on time, so we get to see what might have been in there. The author tries to fill in gaps or explore characters, hopefully with information from the creative process to not be too far off from the director and screenwriters’ intentions. They’re quite fascinating and any movie buff who also enjoys reading should try them out.
So for trivia I’m grabbing this article from the Movie Novelizations fan site going over what was out there in 1981. Did you know you could read one of your favorite movies?
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