Who reads Movie Novelizations?

[SethRex]

Who here reads Movie Novelizations, like say the ones for Man of Steel and Pacific Rim. I'm currently reading the novel for Pacific Rim and I always like the details they give to scenes in the movie. I especially like when they have scenes not in the movie.

[cinemaphile]

I did a lot in my teenage years, but not really any in a long time since then.
I know novelizations are usually written concurrently with filming, so they are based on scripts and the pre-edited film, so that is why scenes make it in the book that were never filmed or were cut.

[RyanPom]

I used to back in the day. Still have all my Star Wars, Trek ones. I also have a lot of those old photo novels.

[dallywhitty]

I haven't read a great deal of them. In fact, I could probably list the ones I have read. As you said, though, it's interesting coming across scenes that were omitted from the film. I read the novelisation of Batman Returns recently and it includes the bit in which Bruce finds Selina dripping blood into Shreck's coffee.

[Foggy]

I don't read them, although I was almost compelled to buy the Raw Deal novelisation when I saw it in a charity shop earlier this year.

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by SethRex

Who here reads Movie Novelizations, like say the ones for Man of Steel and Pacific Rim.

Who even PUBLISHES movie novelizations anymore? (Apart from tie-ins of existing NYT best-sellers, or kids/teen movies which can be marketed at mass-market paperback channels, like Scholastic school-sales or Barnes & Noble.)
Thought most of them went the way of the Soundtrack Album, after the VHS was invented, and we didn't need secondhand "totems" to remind us of the movie anymore.

(And to think I've still got a few copy of those old '78-'79 Fotonovels somewhere...That WAS the VCR of its day.)

[RyanPom]

The novel for Raiders of the Lost Ark included many scenes that weren't in the final film.

[zafisher94]

I just finished reading the novelization of Rob Zombie's "The Lords of Salem". It was basically the original script Zombie wrote. While I enjoyed the movie very much, the novel improved upon it immensely. Now I'm bummed that the film didn't follow the original screenplay, but I guess considering he did the film on a $2 million budget in 22 days, it was still an impressive feat.

[WhySoCereal]

The only novelization I've ever read is Spider-Man 3 but that's only because I was so excited I couldn't wait for the movie.

[Pulp Hero]

I do sometimes, but it depends on the movie and how well I liked it. It's sometimes very interesting seeing the small differences between the movie and the novelization.

I picked up the Pacific Rim novelization to read this past week, from the get-go the prologue is a little bit different. I haven't really started reading it yet though.

I'm not 100% certain but I believe the last novelization I picked up was the one for Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. It has been a good while since I read it but I do recall that the book was structured into distinct episodes, as in a movie serial, which is what Kerry Conran wanted to do with the movie but Paramount put the kibosh on that (along with other negative meddling).

[SethRex]

Originally Posted by Pulp Hero

I do sometimes, but it depends on the movie and how well I liked it. It's sometimes very interesting seeing the small differences between the movie and the novelization.

I picked up the Pacific Rim novelization to read this past week, from the get-go the prologue is a little bit different. I haven't really started reading it yet though.

I'm not 100% certain but I believe the last novelization I picked up was the one for Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. It has been a good while since I read it but I do recall that the book was structured into distinct episodes, as in a movie serial, which is what Kerry Conran wanted to do with the movie but Paramount put the kibosh on that (along with other negative meddling).

Really? I did get the feeling that that was what he wanted, but to find out that he wanted to go that route is kinda interesting. I may have to pick up the novel for that to see for myself then.

[RyanPom]

I remember reading the Phantom Menace novel a month before the movie came out and thinking, "Man, this movie will either be real huge, or suck bad."

[AmrlKJaneway]

Originally Posted by RyanPom

I remember reading the Phantom Menace novel a month before the movie came out and thinking, "Man, this movie will either be real huge, or suck bad."

The entire Prequel Trilogy novelizations are excellent! Revenge of the Sith is the best! It was great reading those before the film came out, and just heading to the movie to ignore the story and acting, and focus on the acting and special effects.

[octagon]

I'm not sure but I think the only actual novelization I've ever read was Star Wars.

Novels adapted to film, that's another story. In fact, I've been kind of going out of my way to put things like that on my GoHastings list the past few months.

[Shawn Elestren]

ME!

I've got loads!

Event Horizon
The Dark Crystal
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Temple of Doom
Last Crusade
RoboCop 2
Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters (2nd version)
Rambo II
Rambo III
Predator
Predator 2
BTTF
BTTF 2
BTTF 3
Friday the 13th Part III
Jaws 2
Jaws the Revenge
Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey
Innerspace
Young Sherlock Holmes
Gremlins
Gremlins 2
The Goonies
Hudson Hawk
Darkman
The Last Boy Scout
Escape from New York

And others I can't think of right now. And MANY more that I want.

[SlayersCouncil]

In middle school, I read:
License to Drive
Back to the Future II

I haven't read a book based on a movie since.

[Booker Dewitt]

Haven't read one since Revenge of the Sith, but I've been meaning to order the Revenge of the Fallen Novelization, just look at how terrible it is.

A nomadic distributor of such food was presently plying its lonely way among the district’s deserted streets and avenues. The ice-cream truck was squat and battered, and had visibly been heavily used. Its bells tinkled an oddly familiar melody while the intensity with which its headlights illuminated the surrounding streets and structures suggested hidden power quite out of keeping with its scruffy external appearance. Equally iconoclastic was the English- language sticker that decorated part of the truck’s rear bumper:

DECEPTICONS—SUCK MY POPSICLE

[SethRex]

It annoys me that some of the superhero films didn't get novels. I'd have loved novelizations for Captain America, Thor, and most definitely The Avengers.

[Race Bannon]

I used to read them all the time as a young person -- when I was young, there was no web, and not all the cable channels, and so not as much info out there about movies I liked. No way to discuss it with fans, etc. And so reading movie novelizations was the main way to build upon a movie that I liked, to continue to enjoy it. Heck, we didn't have home video rentals when I was an adolescent, so there was no real prospect of watching it again for years, and certainly not of owning it.

[thrillmygorilla]

I've read a few in the past.

Alien
Star Wars
The Empire Strikes Back
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom