But this novelization work was fast and fun, and good money for the amount of time it took. I had two small children to support, and I write my own “serious” fiction very slowly. After I turned in my manuscript, David and Janet Peoples called to say I had done a great job. “This is all you need to know: If the script says the character ‘sits in a chair,’ he doesn’t ‘sit in a chair.’ He ‘ambles thoughtfully across the thick oriental carpets that covered the wooden floor of his expansive, tastefully furnished living room, and settles slowly and with a prolonged sigh into a large, overstuffed, red-velvet armchair.’ ” So I called my friend Terry Bisson, a Hugo and Nebula Award-winning writer who had done novelizations for “ Virtuosity” and “ Johnny Mnemonic.” His advice, rendered in a thick Kentucky drawl: I had no still photos, no set designs, no information about the cast, other than that it starred Bruce Willis and a relative newcomer named Brad Pitt.
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My introduction to novelizations came in 1995, when my agent asked whether I would be interested in adapting the screenplay for Terry Gilliam’s “ 12 Monkeys,” a flick inspired by one of my favorite films, Chris Marker’s sublime 1962 short “La Jetée.” Gilliam’s screenplay was by David and Janet Peoples David had co-written the screenplay for “ Blade Runner,” another of my favorite movies.īut I had no idea how to adapt a 110-page screenplay into a 213-page novel. As Samuel Johnson said, “No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.” Although novelizations are often regarded as a phantom menace, most of the authors just named were working writers and, I suspect, disinclined to turn down a paying gig. Buck and - Zut alors! - Jean-Paul Sartre. Wells, Louis L’Amour, John Steinbeck, Orson Welles, Graham Greene, Arthur Miller, Pearl S. Since then, myriad well-known authors have adapted their work or that of others. In 1918, even Jack London penned one based on a romance called “Hearts of Three.” Novelizations - books based on screenplays and illustrated with photo stills from films - became popular with such classics as “The Perils of Pauline,” “ The Ten Commandments” and “Metropolis,” as well as movies now lost or forgotten. Flash-forward 17,000 years to the dawn of the motion picture industry. Our ancestors no doubt provided narrative accompaniment to the cave paintings in Lascaux, France. Snobs may dismiss such books as an attack of the clones, but for as long as humans have had media, we’ve had media tie-ins. Here's the trailer for the highly-anticipated "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," directed by J.J. (The e-book was released Dec. 18 the hardback version will arrive Jan. 5.) A Jedi craves not these things,” Yoda advised Luke Skywalker. So it’s a testament to Foster’s skill and professionalism that he not only evokes entire onscreen worlds but that he also gives us glimpses of an even more vast, unseen universe that has arisen from his impressive imagination. They’re given a screenplay and some still photos, and they work from that. Novelizers typically don’t see the film before they write the book. Abrams’s movie, and Foster’s book does it proud: It’s fast-moving, atmospheric and raises goose bumps at just the right moments. box-office opening weekend record with $248 million in ticket sales. Now he has written the novelization for “The Force Awakens,” which just broke the U.S. Use the Force - of a book.Īlan Dean Foster has dozens of novels to his credit, as well as a formidable number of media tie-in works for major franchises such as “Star Trek” and “Alien.” Foster penned the first “Star Wars” novelization (credited to George Lucas), as well as “Star Wars” expanded-universe novels. If you can’t get enough of the new “Star Wars” movie, Obi-Wan Kenobi is not your only hope.
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