Novelization

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1915 novelization of the original 1904 play Peter and Wendy

A novelization (or novelisation) is a derivative novel that adapts the story of a work created for another medium, such as a film, TV series, comic book or video game. Film novelizations were particularly popular before the advent of home video, but continue to find commercial success as part of marketing campaigns for major films. They are often written by accomplished writers based on an early draft of the film's script and on a tight deadline.

History and purpose[]

Novelization of chapter 8 of the film series Les Vampires (1915–16).

Novelizations of films began to be produced in the 1910s and 1920s for silent films such as Les Vampires (1915–16) and London After Midnight (1927). One of the first talking movies to be novelized was King Kong (1933). Film novelizations were especially profitable during the 1970s before home video became available,[1] as they were then the only way to re-experience popular movies other than television airing or a rerelease in theaters. The novelizations of Star Wars (1977), Alien (1979) and Star Trek:The Motion Picture (1979) sold millions of copies.[2]

The first ever video game to be novelised was Shadowkeep, in 1984.[3]

Even after the advent of home video, film novelizations remain popular, with the adaptation of Godzilla (2014) being included on The New York Times Best Seller list for mass-market paperbacks. This has been attributed to these novels' appeal to fans: About 50% of novelizations are sold to people who have watched the film and want to explore its characters further, or to reconnect to the enthusiasm they experienced when watching the film.[2] A film is therefore also a sort of commercial for its novelization.[4] Conversely, film novelizations help generate publicity for upcoming films, serving as a link in the film's marketing chain.[5]

According to publishing industry estimates, about one or two percent of the audience of a film will buy its novelization. This makes these relatively inexpensively produced works a commercially attractive proposition in the case of blockbuster film franchises. The increasing number of previously established novelists taking on tie-in works has been credited with these works gaining a "patina of respectability" after they had previously been disregarded in literary circles as derivative and mere merchandise.[6]

Variants[]

Film[]

The writer of a novelization is supposed to multiply the 20,000–25,000 words of a screenplay into at least 60,000 words.[4] Writers usually achieve that by adding description or introspection.[5] Ambitious writers are driven to work on transitions and characters just to accomplish "a more prose-worthy format". Sometimes the "novelizer" invents new scenes in order to give the plot "added dimension", provided they are allowed to do that.[7] Publishers aim to have novelizations in shops before a film is released, which means it is usually necessary to base the novelization on a screenplay instead of the completed film.[8] It might take an insider to tell whether a novelization diverges unintentionally from the final film because it is based on an earlier version which included deleted scenes.[1] Thus the novelization occasionally presents material which will later on appear in a director's cut.[9] In some cases, separate novelizations of the same film are written for publication in different countries, and these may be based on different drafts of the screenplay, as was very clearly the case with the American and British novelizations of Capricorn One.[8] Writers select different approaches to enrich a screenplay. Dewey Gram's Gladiator, for example, included historical background information.

If a film is based on a novel, the original novel is generally reissued with a cover based on the film's poster.[10] If a film company also wishes to have a separate novelization published, the company is supposed to approach the author who has "Separated Rights". A writer has these rights if he contributed the source material (or added a great deal of creative input to it) and if he was moreover properly credited.[11]

Novelizations also exist where the film itself is based on an original novel: novelist and screenwriter Christopher Wood wrote a novelization of the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me. Although the 1962 Ian Fleming novel was still available in bookstores, its story had nothing to do with the 1977 film. To avoid confusion, Wood's novelization was titled James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me.[12] This novel is also an example of a screenwriter novelizing his own screenplay. Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker was published under the name of George Lucas but his script had been novelized by the prolific tie-in writer Alan Dean Foster.[13]

Acquiring editors looking for a novelizer have different issues. For starters rewrites of scripts are not uncommon. The script for the 1966 film Modesty Blaise for example was rewritten by five different authors.[14] The writer or script doctor responsible for the so-called "final" version is not necessarily the artist who has contributed the original idea or most of the scenes. The patchwork character of a film script might even exacerbate because the film director, a principal actor or a consulting script doctor does rewrites during the shooting. An acquiring editor who intends to hire one of the credited screenwriters has to reckon that the early writers are no longer familiar with the current draft or work already on another film script. Not every screenwriter is available, willing to work for less money than what can be earned with film scripts and able to deliver the required amount of prose on time. Even if so, there is still the matter of novelizations having a questionable reputation.[15] The International Association of Media Tie-In Writers concedes that by saying their craft went "largely unrecognized".[16]

Some novels blur the line between a novelization and an original novel that is the basis of a film adaptation. Arthur C. Clarke provided the ideas for Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. Based on his own short stories and his cooperation with Kubrick during the preparation and making of this film adaptation he wrote the film novelization of the same name which is appreciated by fans because the film provides little exposition, and the novelization fills in some blanks. David Morrell wrote the novel First Blood about John Rambo, which led to the film adaptation of the same name. Although Rambo dies at the end of his original story, Morrell had a paragraph in his contract stipulating he remained "the only person who could write books about Rambo". This paid off for him when the film producers changed the ending and decided for a sequel. David Morrell accepted to carry out the novelization and negotiated unprecedented liberties which resulted in a likewise unprecedented success when his book entered The New York Times Best Seller list and stayed there for six weeks.[5]

Simon Templar or James Bond are examples of media franchises that have been popular for more than one generation. When the feature film The Saint was released in 1997 the creator of this character (Leslie Charteris) had already been dead for four years. Hence its novelization had to be written by another author. Ian Fleming on the other hand had official successors who wrote contemporary "Post-Fleming" James Bond novels. During his tenure John Gardner was consequently chosen to write the novelization of Licence to Kill[17] in 1989 and also the novelization of GoldenEye[18] in 1995. John Gardner found his successor in Raymond Benson[19] who wrote besides several original Bond novels three novelizations including The World Is Not Enough.

Comics[]

While comic books such as the series Classics Illustrated have often provided adaptations of novels, novelizations of comics are relatively rare.[20]

Video games[]

Video games are novelized in the same manner as films. While gamers might enjoy playing a certain action scene for hours, the buyers of a novelization might be bored soon if they merely read about such a scene. Consequently, the writer will have to cut down on the action.[7]

Authors[]

Novelization writers are often also accomplished original fiction writers, as well as fans of the works they adapt, which helps motivate them to undertake a commission that is generally compensated with a relatively low flat fee. Alan Dean Foster, for example, said that, as a fan, "I got to make my own director's cut. I got to fix the science mistakes, I got to enlarge on the characters, if there was a scene I particularly liked, I got to do more of it, and I had an unlimited budget. So it was fun".[2]

Writing skill is particularly needed for challenging situations common to writing novelizations of popular media, such as lack of access to information about the film, last-minute script changes and very quick turnaround times. Max Allan Collins, for example, had to write the novelization of In the Line of Fire in nine days.[2]

Although novelizations tend to have a low prestige, and are often viewed as "hackwork",[2] several critically acclaimed literary authors have written novelizations, including Arthur Calder-Marshall,[21] William Kotzwinkle[22] and Richard Elman.[23] Best-selling author Ken Follett early in his career also wrote a novelization.[24] While increasingly also a domain of previously established novelists, tie-in writing still has the disadvantages, from the writers' point of view, of modest pay, tight deadlines and no ownership in the intellectual property created.[6]

The International Association of Media Tie-In Writers is an American association that aims to recognize the writers of adapted and tie-in fiction. It hands out annual awards, the "Scribes", in categories including "best adapted novel".[2]

TV series[]

Doctor Who had stories novelised in particular from the era of its original series published by Target Books.

Episodes of Star Trek were adapted into short stories by the noted science fiction writer James Blish. Each volume of the stories included a number of the short story adaptations. Alan Dean Foster would later adapt the follow-up animated series into the Star Trek Log series.

Mel Gilden wrote novelizations of Beverly Hills, 90210, merging three episodes into one book. As he explained, this approach required him to look for a joint story arc.[15]

Comics[]

In the early 1970s Lee Falk was asked by the Avon publishing house to deliver Phantom novels based on the eponymous comic strip. Falk worked on the novelizations on his own and with collaboration. A dispute over how he would be credited led to the cessation of the series.[25]

Peter O'Donnell, who scripted the Modesty Blaise comic strip, later authored novels featuring the character not directly based on the stories presented in the strips.

Video games[]

Matt Forbeck became a writer of novels based on video games after he had been "writing tabletop roleplaying game books for over a decade".[26] He worked also as a designer of video games.

S. D. Perry wrote a series of novels based on the Resident Evil video games and added tie-ins to the novelizations, covering all the mainline titles in the series up until Resident Evil Zero.

Eric Nylund introduced a new concept for a novelization when he delivered a trilogy, consisting of a prequel titled Halo: The Fall of Reach, an actual novelization titled Halo: First Strike and a sequel titled Halo: Ghosts of Onyx.

Raymond Benson novelized the original Metal Gear Solid in 2008 and its sequel Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, while Project Itoh wrote a Japanese language novelization of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots also in 2008 (with an English adaptation later published in 2012). Itoh was set to write novelizations of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater and Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, but his death in 2009 resulted in these projects being handed to Beatless author Satoshi Hase and a new writer named Hitori Nojima (a pen name for Kenji Yano) respectively.[27] Nojima would go on to write Metal Gear Solid: Substance (a two-part alternate novelization of the original Metal Gear Solid and Metal Gear Solid 2), as well as the novelizations of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain and Death Stranding (a game which he helped write the script for).

Orphaned novelizations[]

In some cases an otherwise standard novel may be based on an unfilmed screenplay. Ian Fleming's 1961 James Bond novel Thunderball was based on a script he had co-written; in this case his collaborators subsequently sued for plagiarism.[28]

Peter O'Donnell's novel Modesty Blaise was a novelization of a refused film script. In this case the creator of the main character had written the script alone. But later on other authors had changed O'Donnell's original script over and over, until merely one single sentence remained from the original.[14][29][30] The novel was released a year before the film and unlike the film it had sequels.

Frederick Forsyth's 1979 novel The Devil's Alternative was based on an unfilmed script he had written.[31]

Occasionally a novelization is issued even though the film is never made. Gordon Williams wrote the script and novelization for producer Harry Saltzman's abandoned film The Micronauts.[32]

Lists of novelizations[]

Novels based on comics[]

Novels based on films[]

Novels by franchise[]

Franchise Title Author(s) ISBN Publisher Notes
Blade Runner Blade Runner: A Story of the Future (1982) Les Martin ISBN 394-85303-2 Random House Novelization of the film
Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human (1995) K. W. Jeter Sequel novel to the original film
Blade Runner 3: Replicant Night (1996) Second sequel novel to the original film
Blade Runner 4: Eye and Talon (2000) Third sequel novel to the original film
Dollars Trilogy A Fistful of Dollars (1972) Frank Chandler Novelization of the film
For a Few Dollars More (1965) Joe Millard Novelization of the film
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1967) Novelization of the film
A Coffin Full of Dollars
A Dollar to Die For Brian Fox
The Devil's Dollar Sign Joe Millard
The Million-Dollar Bloodhunt
Blood for a Dirty Dollar
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) William Kotzwinkle Berkley Books Novelization of the film
E.T.: The Book of the Green Planet (1985) ISBN 0-425-08001-3 Sequel novel, published three years after the original film
Friday the 13th Friday the 13th Part 3 3-D (1982) Michael Avallone ISBN 0352312491 Tower & Leisure Sales Co. First novelization of the film
Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI (1986) Simon Hawke ISBN 0451146417 Signet Novelization of the film
Friday the 13th (1987) ISBN 0451150899 Novelization of the 1980 film
Friday the 13th Part II (1988) ISBN 0451153375 Novelization of the film
Friday the 13th Part III (1988) ISBN 0451153111 Second novelization of the film
Friday the 13th: Mother's Day (1994) William Pattinson (as Eric Morse) ISBN 0425142922 Berkley Books Camp Crystal Lake series; the fifth installment was published as e-book; Self-published by the author
Friday the 13th: Jason's Curse (1994)
Friday the 13th: The Carnival (1994)
Friday the 13th: Road Trip (1994)
Friday the 13th: The Mask of Jason Voorhees (2011) None
Freddy vs. Jason (2005) Stephen Hand Novelization of the film
Jason X (2005) Pat Cadigan Novelization of the film
Jason X: The Experiment (2005) ISBN 1844161692 Black Flame Jason X series
Jason X: Planet of the Beast (2005) Nancy Kilpatrick Black Flame
Jason X: Death Moon (2005) Alex Johnson Black Flame
Jason X: To the Third Power (2006) Nancy Kilpatrick Black Flame
Friday the 13th: Church of the Divine Psychopath (2005), Scott Phillips ISBN 1844161811 Black Flame Friday the 13th series
Friday the 13th: Hell Lake (2005) Paul Woods Black Flame
Friday the 13th: Hate-Kill-Repeat (2005) Jason Arnopp Black Flame
Friday the 13th: The Jason Strain (2006) Chris Faust Black Flame
Friday the 13th: Carnival of Maniacs (2006) Stephen Hand Black Flame
Ghostbusters Ghostbusters (1984) Larry Milne ISBN 0727811932 Coronet Books Novelization of the 1984 film
Ghostbusters: The Return (2004) Sholly Fisch ISBN 0743479483 I Books Non-canon sequel to Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II
Halloween Halloween (1979) Curtis Richards Novelization of the 1978 film
Halloween II (1981) Jack Martin Novelization of the film
Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) Novelization of the film
Halloween IV (1988) Nicholas Grabowsky Novelization of the film Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
Halloween: The Scream Factory (1997) Kelly O'Rourke
Halloween: The Old Myers Place (1997)
Halloween: The Mad House (1998)
Halloween (2018) John Passarella Novelization of the 2018 film
Herbie The Love Bug (1969) Mel Cebulash Novelization of the film
Herbie Rides Again (1974) Novelization of the film
Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo (1977) Vic Crume Novelization of the film
Herbie Goes Bananas (1980) Joe Claro Novelization of the film
Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005) Novelization of the film
Jaws Jaws 2 (1978) Hank Searls ISBN 0-553-11708-4 Bantam Books Novelization of the film
Jaws: The Revenge (1987) ISBN 0-425-10546-6 Berkley Books Novelization of the film
James Bond James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) Christopher Wood Novelization of the film
James Bond and Moonraker (1979) Novelization of the film
King Kong King Kong (1932) Delos W. Lovelace Grosset & Dunlap Novelization of the 1933 film
King Kong (2005) Christopher Golden ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-0391-0
ISBN 10: 1-4165-0391-9
Pocket Star Books Novelization of the 2005 film
A Nightmare on Elm Street The Nightmares on Elm Street Parts 1, 2, 3: The Continuing Story (1987) Jeffrey Cooper Novelization of the 1984 film and the sequels Freddy's Revenge and Dream Warriors
The Nightmares on Elm Street Parts 4 & 5 (1989) Joseph Locke Novelization of the films The Dream Master and The Dream Child
Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994) David Bergantino Novelization of the film
The Omen The Omen (1976) David Seltzer ISBN 0-8600-7371-8 Futura Books
Signet
Novelization of the 1976 film
Damien: Omen II (1978) Joseph Howard ISBN 0-7088-1358-5 Futura Books
Signet
Novelization of the film
The Final Conflict (1981) Gordon McGill ISBN 0-7088-1958-3 Futura Books
Signet
Novelization of the film
Omen IV: Armageddon 2000 (1983) ISBN 0-7088-2275-4 Futura Books
Signet
First of two novels set after The Final Conflict, unrelated to the 1991 film Omen IV: The Awakening
Omen V: The Abomination (1985) ISBN 0-7088-2745-4 Futura Books
Signet
Second of two novels set after The Final Conflict
The Pink Panther The Pink Panther (1963) Martin Albert Bantam Books Novelization of the 1963 film
The Return of the Pink Panther (1975) Frank Waldman Ballantine Books
Futura Books
Novelization of the film
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) Ballantine Books
Futura Books
Novelization of the film
The Pink Panther (2006) Max Allan Collins Novelization of the 2006 film
Planet of the Apes Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970) Michael Avallone Bantam Books Novelization of the film
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971) Jerry Pournelle Award Books Novelization of the film
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972) John Jakes Award Books Novelization of the film
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973) David Gerrold Award Books Novelization of the film
Rambo Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) David Morrell ISBN 0-515-08399-2 Jove Books Novelization of the film
Rambo III (1988) ISBN 0-515-09333-5 Novelization of the film
Species Species (1995) Yvonne Navarro ISBN 0-553-57404-3 Bantam Books Novelization of the film
Species II (1998) ISBN 0-812-57075-8 Tom Doherty Associates, LLC Novelization of the film

Standalone novels[]

Title Author Publisher ISBN Release Date Notes
Close Encounters of the Third Kind Steven Spielberg ISBN 0-440-11433-0 Dell Books 1977 Novelization of the film
Gallipoli Jack Bennett ISBN 0-312-31572-4 St. Martins Press 1981 Novelization of the film
Zorro, The Gay Blade Les Dean ISBN 0-8439-1007-0 Leisure Books 1981 Novelization of the film
Short Circuit Colin Wedgelock Sphere Books 1986 Novelization of the film
Far and Away Sonja Massie ISBN 0-425-13298-6 Berkley Books 1992 Novelization of the film

Novels based on plays[]

Novels based on television programs[]

Franchise Title Author(s) ISBN Publisher Notes
Battlestar Galactica (1978) Battlestar Galactica (1978) Glen A. Larson and Robert Thurston Novelization
Battlestar Galactica 2: The Cylon Death Machine (1979) Novelization
Battlestar Galactica 3: The Tombs of Kobol (1979) Novelization
Battlestar Galactica 4: The Young Warriors (1979) Novelization
Battlestar Galactica 5: Galactica Discovers Earth (1980) Glen A. Larson and Michael Resnick Novelization
Battlestar Galactica 6: The Living Legend (1980) Glen A. Larson and Nicholas Yermakov Novelization
Battlestar Galactica 7: War of the Gods (1980) Novelization
Battlestar Galactica 8: Greetings from Earth (1980) Glen A. Larson and Ron Goulart Novelization
Battlestar Galactica 9: Experiment in Terra (1980) Novelization
Battlestar Galactica 10: The Long Patrol (1980) Novelization
Battlestar Galactica 11: The Nightmare Machine (1980) Glen A. Larson and Robert Thurston Original novel
Battlestar Galactica 12: "Die, Chameleon!" (1980) Original novel
Battlestar Galactica 13: Apollo's War (1980) Original novel
Battlestar Galactica 14: Surrender the Galactica! (1980) Original novel
Ben Casey Ben Casey (1962) William Johnston Lancer Books
Ben Casey: A Rage for Justice (1962) Norman Daniels
Ben Casey: The Strength of His Hands (1963) Sam Elkin
Ben Casey: The Fire Within (1963) Norman Daniels
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1978) Addison E. Steele Novelization
Buck Rogers: That Man on Beta (1979) Novelization of an unproduced teleplay from the series

Tucker's Luck[]

  • Forty Days of Tucker J. (1983), Robert Leeson
  • Tucker's Luck (1985), Jan Needle
  • Tucker in Control (1985), Jan Needle

The A-Team[]

  • The A-Team
  • Small But Deadly Wars
  • When You Comin' Back, Range Rider?
  • Old Scores to Settle
  • Ten Percent of Trouble
  • Operation Desert Sun: The Untold Story, Charles Heath/Louis Chunovic
  • Bullets, Bikinis and Bells, Ron Renauld
  • Backwoods Menace, Ron Renauld
  • The Bend in the River, David George Deutsch
  • Death Vows, Max Hart

Quantum Leap[]

  • Quantum Leap: The Beginning (1990), Julie Robitaille
  • Quantum Leap: The Ghost and the Gumshoe (1990), Julie Robitaille
  • Quantum Leap: The Novel (1992), Ashley McConnell
  • Quantum Leap: Too Close for Comfort (1992), Ashley McConnell
  • Quantum Leap: The Wall (1992), Ashley McConnell
  • Quantum Leap: Prelude (1992), Ashley McConnell
  • Quantum Leap: Knights of the Morningstar (1994), Melanie Rawn
  • Quantum Leap: Search and Rescue (1994), Melissa Crandall
  • Quantum Leap: Random Measures (1995), Ashley McConnell
  • Quantum Leap: Pulitzer (1995), L. Elizabeth Storm
  • Quantum Leap: Double or Nothing (1995), C.J. Henderson and Laura Anne Gilman
  • Quantum Leap: Odyssey (1996), Barbara E. Walton
  • Quantum Leap: Independence (1996), John Peel
  • Quantum Leap: Angels Unaware (1997), L. Elizabeth Storm
  • Quantum Leap: Obsessions (1997), Carol Davis
  • Quantum Leap: Loch Ness Leap (1997), Sandy Schofield
  • Quantum Leap: Heat Wave (1997), Melanie Kent
  • Quantum Leap: Foreknowledge (1998), Christopher DeFilippis
  • Quantum Leap: Song and Dance (1998), Mindy Peterman
  • Quantum Leap: Mirror's Edge (2000), Carol Davis and Esther D. Reese

Novels based on video games[]

See also[]

References[]

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Works cited[]

  • Britton, Wesley Alan (2005). Beyond Bond: Spies in Fiction and Film. Praeger. ISBN 0-275-98556-3.
  • Hamilton, Geoff & Jones, Brian (2009). Encyclopedia of American Popular Fiction. Facts on File. ISBN 978-0-8160-7157-9.
  • Pringle, David (1998). St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers. St. James Press. ISBN 1-55862-206-3.
  • Shatzky, Joel & Taub, Michael, eds. (1997). Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists: A Bio-critical Sourcebook. Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-29462-3.
  • Turner, Richard Charles (1996). Ken Follett: A Critical Companion. Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-29415-1.

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