I remember the glory days of them in the 70s and 80s.
There would be the novelization. Then the YA novelization. Then the photostory. Then the photobook. And then the audio storybook of the movie (on an LP) with a book.
Terminator has an American novelization and a British novelization. Written by separate authors.
It used to be routine for me to see the movie and get the novelization. If only I'd watched more movies but I was never a big movie goer.
If you’re looking for a surprisingly good one, Spider-Man (2002) was kinda fun. It ties a lot of things together and has nice details, like Peter writing letters to his dead parents and using them as a moral sounding board, Uncle Ben watching Peter’s wrestling match on tv and other fun stuff like that
There was one for Million Ways to Die in the West, written by Seth MacFarlane himself. He's a pretty decent writer, and there's a few scenes that weren't in the final film.
I know the new Halloween trilogy got novelizations!
I think the most recent one I read was for the Force Awakens, so they certainly made it into the mid teens. I've always enjoyed them, too. I'm not as big on movies as books (the trend of movies being so dark/ badly lit does not get along with my desire to see what's going on) so I read a lot of novelizations. I quite liked the one of Ever After. Pacific Rim's made some interesting choices (like having the two leads kiss) that annoyed me.
I love movie novelizations, don't even care about the quality tbh. I just think they're fun.
No, sorry. They're just doing novelizations of tik-tok videos now.
The X-files has a novelization of the movie (I have it of course) and there was a series of YA books that were episode novelizations. I don’t remember all the titles they did but I know one was Eve.
Something I often wish for is a well-written novelisation of Horizon: Zero Dawn, complete with dialogue from the game, working with the studio to ensure the main and side quests are in a suitable order. It's a brilliant story, loads of lore about the past and present, great characters. But loads of people will never experience it because it's a game - like my mum, who's hopeless with consoles. But she loves The Wheel of Time, GoT, Star Wars etc., so a novelisation of Horizon: Zero Dawn would be right up her street. I'd explain the story to her in my own words, but it wouldn't hit nearly as hard as playing it did.
There’re novelizations of the new Halloween movies