Back in the 1970s and 80s if you walked into a bookstore you would undoubtedly had seen whatever the newest movie was in theaters sitting on a display in book form. The movie novelization is a world unto itself. We take a look at what it takes to adapt a movie to a novel, why the differences can be interesting, and get into why they exist in the first place. With insight from novelization experts Alan Dean Foster and Tim Waggoner, podcast host Paxton Holley, and filmmaker Whit Stillman, the rare filmmaker who has novelized his own films.
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Dan Delgado on Twitter (https://twitter.com/_Dan_Delgado) and Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/dandelgado.bsky.social)
Listen to Paxton Holley's I Read Movies Podcast (https://cultfilmclub.com/category/i-read-movies/)
Visit Tim Waggoner's website (https://www.timwaggoner.com/index.htm)
Visit Alan Dean Foster's website (https://www.alandeanfoster.com/version2.0/frameset.htm)
Buy Whit Stillman's books (https://www.whitstillman.org/books/)
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