novelizations

[Morpheus, the unwoke.]

Do you read novelizations of movies you liked? I do sometimes but usually older movies.

[Alex]

Hmm, last one I read was for Serenity. Before that, I'd guess Aliens, so yeah, I'll pick them up now and again but not as a regular thing.

[Rev. Powell]

The "2001: A Space Odyssey" novelization was good. It was an expansion of "The Sentinel," the short story Arthur C. Clarke originally wrote that inspired the screenplay.

[ER]

Some over the years. Dead Poet's Society, one about Mussolini that had been an '80s movie starring George C. Scott, most of the Star Trek and Star Wars movies, a handful of random ones. They're not my favorite type of read but I've usually enjoyed the ones I finished.

I thought the novelization of The Hobbit was much better than the movie. 

[Allhallowsday]

About 50 years ago I read novelizations of the PLANET OF THE APES movies... (and I had read Monkey Planet)... and other slop based upon popular movies, but it's usually the other way around for me, like JAWS the movie is superior to the novel it's based on which I had read.  SILENCE OF THE LAMBS is inferior to Thomas Harris' novel which I also read before seeing the film.  SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION is far superior to the novella it's based on.  Red Dragon has been filmed twice and neither quite got the source material right (the '80s version is probably called MANHUNTER, the novel is also Thomas Harris).

[Alex]

Oh, I did read "Who Goes There", which later inspired The Thing From Another World and The Thing.

[ER]

Last month I read the novelization of my favorite Doctor Who episode, The Talons of Weng-Chiang.

[RCMerchant]

I own- the CAR (1977), BURNT OFFERINGS (1976),  WILLARD (1971), and IT'S ALIVE (1974)

The only one I read was BURNT OFFERINGS.

[Allhallowsday]

Oh, I did read "Who Goes There", which later inspired The Thing From Another World and The Thing.

I have that in a hardback with other JOHN CAMPBELL stories with a cool space alien in the snow dustjacket!   

[Allhallowsday]

...

Fred and Mary Trump the day Donnie Darko was born? Cheez and crackers!  It's alive! 

[Alex]

Oh, I did read "Who Goes There", which later inspired The Thing From Another World and The Thing.

I have that in a hardback with other JOHN CAMPBELL stories with a cool space alien in the snow dustjacket!   

It is one I plan on picking up a copy of. I made do with an online copy.

[FatFreddysCat]

I used to read and collect them when I was in my teens - I know I had the novelizations of the first three Star Wars films, plus Raiders of the Lost Ark, Tron, Jaws: The Revenge (!) and lots more. But over time my interest in reading comic books overtook my interest in them.

On a whim I picked up the novelization of the original Poltergeist at a library sale a couple of years ago, but still haven't gotten around to reading it...

[Trevor]

The thing about some novelizations is that they're based on one version of a film script - some give a lot of back story - and not what you see on the screen: the Lethal Weapon 1 version has Martin Riggs attending Roger Murtaugh's church at the end.  

I have more than I thought:

Halloween (1978)
Star Trek The Motion Picture
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
Ghostbusters (1984)
Rambo First Blood Part 2
Outland (1981)
Aliens
Juggernaut (1974)
Night of The Living Dead (1968)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The Ghost and The Darkness
Midnight Run
The Mechanic with Charles Bronson.

[Alex]

I forgot I have the Shakespeare versions of the original Star Wars trilogy. I'll let others decide if they count or not.

[Trevor]

I forgot I have the Shakespeare versions of the original Star Wars trilogy. I'll let others decide if they count or not.