No Tie-In Novelization?

[Rocketman]

I just checked Amazon and there's nothing. That's really disappointing. Usually they get Dennis O'Neil or Peter David to write the novel (prose) versions of the movie scripts. Total Bummer!!!!!

 

[Motown Marvel]

i never understood the novelized versions of these films. it just seems pointless. your time and money would be better spent buying the source material that inspired the film. you would also be far more entertained, im sure.

 

[A Necessary Evil]

sometimes novels contain thoughts, deleted scenes, or other media not put into the movie.

 

[dnno1]

I know what you are talking about. Star Wars and (I think) Star Trek did that way back when and got some great science fiction writers to writes some great novels ("Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope" and "Splinter in the Mind's Eye", by Alan Dean Foster comes to mind). From what I have searched, Tracey West is supposedly writing a novel for the move and Jake Black is writing a series of children's books. Hopefully, if this film really takes off, we will see more novels. Maybe one day their may be a Green Lantern Compendium or a Green Lantern Encylopedia (I guess you could call it the book of Oa) that would basically cite the cannon of Green Lantern mythology.

 

[Alientraveller]

I'm sure this is the novelization.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Green-Lantern-Movie-Tracey-West/dp/0843198427

 

[DieSmiling]

i never understood the novelized versions of these films. it just seems pointless. your time and money would be better spent buying the source material that inspired the film. you would also be far more entertained, im sure.

I agree nowadays, but I admit that when I was a kid I loved to read novelizations of my favorite movies. I think I still have the novelization of "Face/Off" in my apartment somewhere.

 

[A Necessary Evil]

I have tons of novelizations.

Hulk, SM1/SM2/SM3/TIH/Iron Man / Iron Man 2 and a ton of others...I love reading them.

Well IM2's tie in was bleh.

 

[Morg]

Have pretty much all the tie ends too, sometimes the book is better then the movie

 

[A Necessary Evil]

Sometimes?

 

[Morg]

Sometimes?

SM3 book was better then seeing Parker dancing around

 

[A Necessary Evil]

SM3 book was better then seeing Parker dancing around

Oh i liked SM3....but i'd have a hard time disagreeing...

 

[Breogan]

As well as the novelization, there will also be a streight forward comic adaptation, and several Green Lantern movie related prequels in the comics - http://dcu.blog.dccomics.com/2011/02/10/green-lantern-prequels-to-be-published-this-may/


Written by the creative talents behind the highly anticipated motion picture, these exclusive one-shots tell the tales of the movie characters before the events of the film. What were Hal Jordan, Sinestro, Kilowog, Abin Sur and The Guardians all doing before the curtains rise on June 17?

Experience it all in these one-shots, as told by the superstar Green Lantern movie team including producer Geoff Johns (GREEN LANTERN, THE FLASH), screenwriter Michael Goldenberg, producer/screenwriter Greg Berlanti, producer Donald De Line, screenwriter Michael Green (SUPERMAN/BATMAN) and screenwriter Marc Guggenheim (JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA). Each issue will be available day-and-date digitally for $2.99.
GREEN LANTERN PREQUEL SPECIAL: SINESTRO #1
Written by GEOFF JOHNS and MICHAEL GOLDENBERG
Art by FERNANDO DAGNINO
Movie art cover
GREEN LANTERN PREQUEL SPECIAL: KILOWOG #1
Written by PETER J. TOMASI and ADAM SCHLAGMAN
Art by JOE BENNETT and FABRIZIO FIORENTINO
Movie art cover
GREEN LANTERN PREQUEL SPECIAL: ABIN SUR #1
Written by MICHAEL GREEN
Art by KARL KERSCHL
Movie art cover
GREEN LANTERN PREQUEL SPECIAL: TOMAR-RE #1
Written by MARC GUGGENHEIM
Art by CLIFF RICHARDS
Movie art cover
GREEN LANTERN PREQUEL SPECIAL: HAL JORDAN #1
Written by GEOFF JOHNS, GREG BERLANTI and DONALD DE LINE
Art by JERRY ORDWAY
Movie art cover

 

[S.A.A.D.]

When is the movie comic book adaption suppose to come out?

 

[Breogan]

When is the movie comic book adaption suppose to come out?

Hmm my bad, I don't know where I got that? I can’t find any reference to it, I may have just assumed it after seeing the movie adaptation prequels announced, or maybe it was that the new cover to Secret Origins using the movie art that threw me?

Sorry guys.

I guess the closest thing will be this in May
GREEN LANTERN PREQUEL SPECIAL: HAL JORDAN #1
Written by GEOFF JOHNS, GREG BERLANTI and DONALD DE LINE
Art by JERRY ORDWAY
Movie art cover

 

[S.A.A.D.]

I find it weird that the movie novel was made while the movie comic book wasn't.

 

[Alientraveller]

I can't remember the last time there was a comic book adaptation of a superhero movie: Batman Begins? DC and Marvel are better off adding to the film universes with prequel comics while using the movie to advertise the mainstream comics and backstories.

 

[Mysteryman]

They do it now with prequel comics.
Superman Returns did that,heck ,JJ Abrams Star Trek did that.

 

[arman200]

sometimes novels contain thoughts, deleted scenes, or other media not put into the movie.

Yeah, I don't get the novels now, but I used to read them when I did book reports in middle school. X-men 3 was so much better as a book.

 

[dnno1]

This just in. There is a new book out titled Green Lantern and Philosophy: No Evil Shall Escape this Book by Jane Dryden, Mark D White, and William Irwin. The book discusses the philosophy behind the Green Lantern comics and sheds light on some deep philosophical issues that emerge from the story of the corps and the characters. The book is pretty cheep (around $12) and also comes in an e-book version for Amazon Kindle.

 

[The Sage]

Oooh...

 

[A Necessary Evil]

Saw that, getting it soon. I love the ___ and philosophy series.


Although I will never get why Metallica had one LOL

 

[Rocketman]

So what happened with this? Is Tracey West still publishing the novel?
I'm sure none of you care now (lol), but I for one ENJOYED the movie a lot, and would love to own and read the novel, as a collector.

I own quite a few of these tie-in novelizations, and most of them contain material not featured in the movie. I own:

Batman
Batman Returns
Batman Forever
Batman & Robin
Batman Begins
The Dark Knight
Batman: Gotham Knight
Superman Returns
Iron Man
Iron Man 2
Spider-Man
Spider-Man 2
Spider-Man 3

And soooo many others. I want GL, dammit!!