novelization
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novelizations
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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
And then also, why did the gay poet Paul Monette write the novelization for the movie?
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2022
Eastwood would have been 45 when Nash’s book — a novelization of a rejected screenplay — first came out in 1975.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 14, 2021
Tarantino’s first novel is based on his Oscar-winning 2019 film, with some notable departures; think of it as the director’s cut novelization.
From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2021
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
A new book, “Deliberate Cruelty,” by Roseanne Montillo, adds to the fat stack of Trumania — biographies, oral histories, novelizations, movies — but won’t topple it.
From New York Times ● Oct. 30, 2022
For years, Disney has been cheating the writers and artists of tie-in products — novelizations and graphic novels based on some of its most important franchises — of the royalties they’re due for their works.
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
Is it not odd that most adaptations of successful stories and most novelizations of successful plays are failures?
From Dramatic Technique by George Pierce Baker
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