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Are movie novelizations still a thing? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by Planisher@alien.top to c/books@metacritics.zone

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I remember reading them back in the early 90s (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Far and Away, Back to the Future). They don't seem to be a thing anymore (or am I just not noticing them).

As an aside I remember liking them but I was a preteen at the time so maybe they were terrible and I just liked the movies.

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[–] that_other_goat@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Yes, it's common.

They can be released at the same time to cash in but the script always comes first.

The Phantom menace received such a treatment. They take the script and have an author rewrite it as a novel. In the case of the phantom menace it was the fantasy author Terry Brooks.