that_other_goat

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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.