The Dark Knight Rises TDKR Novelization by Greg Cox

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It's probably inevitable, considering that he's written the novels for Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, and Batman: Knightfall.

And considering that O'Neil invented Ra's Al Ghul, Talia, and the fact that TDKR may or may not be based on Knightfall, the novel seems to be right up his alley.

Lately, it seems like they've stopped movie novelizations altogether recently. Green Lantern, Thor, Captain America, X-Men:First Class.... NONE of these movies had novelizations. It's shocking, actually. That was like THE thing back in the day.

Here's hoping.

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I loved the TDK novelization, here's hoping we get a TDKR one!
 
I think they're great, and I wish parts of them not in the films could be added later :(.
 
I didn't like the dark knight novelization. It was too to-the-point you know? It didn't feel necessary.
 
Goku Goes Crazy said:
I didn't like the dark knight novelization. It was too to-the-point you know? It didn't feel necessary.
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I know what you mean. It was quite terse. I was looking for more elaboration, other than what we all see on the screen. More getting inside the character's heads, expanding scenes, etc. We get a little of that, but not that much.
 
These novels sucked. I would care not one bit if there is no novel for rises.
 
I think I read the Batman Begins novel before, not the best writing IMO.
 
O'Neil also adapted Batman Returns into comic book form...which I've owned since it came out around the same time as the film. Wish they had done that for these recent series of films...unless they did, and I missed it.

I wonder how based on the novelization of BB a new novelization would draw from, or contradict, for TDKR? The material is certainly near and dear to O'Neil. How's the book publishing industry and retail doing these days--not-so-good--which might explain why novelizations in general are disappearing.
 
Even if you guys don't want it, I would at least like some consistency and own the trilogy in novel form.

Also, Batman Begins was released as a graphic novel, but The Dark Knight wasn't... which sucks.
 
O'Neil didn't exactly write the greatest Batman comics ever. He did make Batman less campy during his run on the book, but he didn't bring the depth to the character that someone like Frank Miller or Grant Morrison did.
 
There is no "correct" interpretation of Batman.
O'Neil is a legend, and was just as good as the rest of them.
 
Personally Miller, Morrison, Loeb and Moench are my favourites. O'Neil's ideas were great though I think reading the 80's stories it was still a little bit campy with how the villains were dealt with.

The mob to me is a crucial element of Batman's rogues gallery along with the villains connected to them, and I think O'Neil didn't nail that side of things as well as the above mentioned.

Everything that was based on Miller's world apart from The Dark Knight Strikes Again and All-Star are fantastic. The Year 1 to 5 stories in Legends of The Dark Knight are where I'd love to see the film take its ideas from.
 
Rocketman said:
Even if you guys don't want it, I would at least like some consistency and own the trilogy in novel form.

Also, Batman Begins was released as a graphic novel, but The Dark Knight wasn't... which sucks.
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Anyway, the batman begins comic book adaptation sucked, when they make a movie adaptation it should be a 4 issues comic
 
Rocketman said:
There is no "correct" interpretation of Batman.
O'Neil is a legend, and was just as good as the rest of them.
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That is decidedly untrue unless you believe in some sort of "everyone's opinion is correct!!!" fantasy world. There have been horrible writers for Batman, and there have been some good ones. O'Neil was fine for the time period he was in, but his comic writing shows through in the movie novels--they aren't really that amazing.
 
What yoy just gave was an opinion. There are no correct versions of Batman. Just in-continuity (which changes every X years) and elseworlds or just good and bad, which is again a matter of opinion.
 
The only time I've seen a novelization surpass the actual movie was the Spider-Man 3 novelization. My god that novel was a masterpiece compared to the movie. It came out before the movie and I remember reading it(yes spoiling the movie for myself) and being so excited for the film. It was great. Had lots of character development and was not cheesy but in fact very dark. Unfortunately the movie was a watered down version of the book(which is funny because TDK novel is like a watered down version of the movie)

Only good thing about TDK novel was the Scarecrow stuff at the beginning. I like how it explained what happened to him after Batman Begins....wait, that happened right? I'm not misremembering right?

Also I had completely forgotten that I had already posted in this thread before. So when I clicked on this thread today I was going to say how TDK novelization was too to-the-point, only to see that someone else had posted that. I was going to quote them and say "Damn you beat me to it" only to realize that the person who had posted it already, was in fact myself 5 months ago. Really weirded me out.
 
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I haven't read either previous novelization, but I'm interested. Having just finished anothee read through of Knightfall's novelization, which is great IMO, I want to read more Bat books. And I like Denny's writing.
 
That's the thing: I really love O'Neil's writing.
The BB novel was great, in my opinion. Especially the Ra's Al Ghul stuff (since he invented Ra's, of course it's good).

The TDK novel seemed like someone just handed him the script and said, "Turn this into prose." And there was absolutely NO inner-thoughts or monologues, it was just Splat! - script to prose. I read the whole novel in like 2 hours.

If O'Neil could actually get inside the head of Bane, Bruce, and Gordon, and write something on the caliber of his Knightfall novel, this could be a really special novel. I really hope this happens.
 
I will get flamed for this but I absolutely hated Morrison's Batman RIP . Its just too outhere for my Bastman ... Give me Loeb , O'Nea, Snyder over Morrison any day of the week . I did like Arkahm Asylum and All Star Superman a lot though .
 
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