novelization
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In 2011 two sportswriters, Michael Bamberger and Alan Shipnuck, co-authored “The Swinger,” a hilarious and barely disguised novelization of Mr. Woods’s postscandal career.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
Anita’s story often feels like the novelization of one of the art world’s most notorious unsolved mysteries: Did this young and gifted artist accidentally fall?
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2024
And then also, why did the gay poet Paul Monette write the novelization for the movie?
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2022
It’s not a novelization of “Tron” or a homage to “Ready Player One.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 28, 2022
As he scribbled an inscription onto the title page, he said, “All I ask in exchange is that you read this brilliant and haunting novelization of my favorite video game.”
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
So did royalties from the novelizations Foster wrote of the first three “Alien” films for 20th Century Fox — around the time that Fox was acquired by Disney in 2019.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2022
And that spawns a Wordle cinematic universe, tentpole movies and quirky spinoffs, podcast tie-ins, IP novelizations written entirely in five-letter words?
From Salon ● Feb. 1, 2022
Last year, Disney bought 20th Century Fox, acquiring the rights to some other novelizations by Foster: Alien, Aliens, and Alien 3.
From The Verge ● Nov. 19, 2020
In another of her outrageously enjoyable novelizations of classical mythology, Miller presents the sorceress who seduced Odysseus into lingering on her island and transformed his men into pigs.
From Slate ● Dec. 14, 2018
Is it not odd that most adaptations of successful stories and most novelizations of successful plays are failures?
From Dramatic Technique by Baker, George Pierce
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