Summary: <p>Write a great book and you're a genius. Turn a book into a great film and you're a visionary. Turn a great film into a book...that's another story.</p> <p>Novelizations of films are regular best-sellers with cult followings -- some are even more beloved than the films that spawned them -- but respected they are not. Instead, they're assumed to be the literary equivalent of merchandise: a way for the movie studios to make a few extra bucks, and a job for writers who aren't good enough to do anything else. But the people who write them beg to differ.</p> <p>Back in 2016, former OTM producer Jesse Brenneman went inside the world of novelizations; featuring authors <a href="http://www.maxallancollins.com/blog/">Max Allan Collins</a>, <a href="http://www.alandeanfoster.com/version2.0/frameset.htm">Alan Dean Foster</a>, <a href="http://elizabethhand.com/">Elizabeth Hand</a>, and <a href="http://www.leegoldberg.com/">Lee Goldberg</a>.</p> <p><em>Songs:</em></p> <p><em>"The Blue Danube Waltz" by Johann Strauss</em></p> <p><em>"The Throne Room and End Title" by John Williams (from the film "Star Wars")</em></p> <p> </p> <p>*Correction: In the piece it is stated that the <em>Star Wars</em> novelization begins, "Another time, another galaxy." In fact it begins, "Another galaxy, another time." </p>
