What movie-based novels have you read?

[Chris Wallace]

Well?

 

[matrix_ghost]

Is this more like which movies have you seen that were based on novels. Or which novels have you read that were turned into movies ?

And do grahic novels count ?
If so then i've read the following :
V for Vendetta
HellBlazer ( the books that were used for costantine)
Batman ( same as abve)
I AM LEGEND ( graphic novel )
A Scanner Darkly ( tough sadly the movie hasn't come out here yet )
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep
LOTR

Uhm , that's it ..i think

 

[Chris Wallace]

I meant the latter; what novels have you read that were based on movies?

 

[DarKush]

Off Hand:

Books Turned Into Movies:
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
I Am Legend
Red Dragon
Silence of the Lambs
Devil in a Blue Dress
The Dead Zone
Carrie
Cycle of the Werewolf
Mr. Murder
Dune
Dune Messiah
Children of Dune
Kiss the Girls
The Hunger
Disappearing Acts
The Women of Brewster Place
Native Son

Novelizations:
STII: TWOK
STV: The Final Frontier
Batman (1989)
Serenity
SW: ROTS
SW: ANH
SW: ESB
SW:ROTJ

Media-Tie Ins:
T2: Infiltrator
Alien: Original Sin
A lot of Star Wars novels

 

[Darth Elektra]

I dont understand?

But If Im correct movies about books?

The Da Vinci Code
V for Vendetta
I am Legend
300
LOTR
And alot of comic books.

 

[matrix_ghost]

I meant the latter; what novels have you read that were based on movies?

Ooh , so like Books that were released when a movie came out ?
Kinda like how the SW novels are released

If so , then none sadly.

 

[Iceman]

If you mean books that were written after the release of a movie, off hand I can remember reading all novelisations in the Star Wars, Alien, Terminator and X-Men series as well as Gladiator, Spider-Man and Daredevil. I've read many more non sci-fi/comic book based novelisations but I can only recall the obvious ones quickly. Often these 'movie-based novels' do not add a great deal to what the respective film offers and may not have been able to stand alone without the backing of the film.

I much prefer the other way round, reading novels which are eventually made into films like LOTR, Da Vinci Code, Jurassic Park etc. This is actually one of my active interests, observing how a good novel is transferred into a film and what elements are lost/developed.

 

[Ebil Gig]

Books turned into a flick:
-Harry Potter 1-6
-The Hobbit(It doesn't come out til like 3 more years but hey, its still getting its own movie)
-A Sound of Thunder
-Comic books like Spidey, Bats, X-Men

 

[Chris Wallace]

If you mean books that were written after the release of a movie

I do.

 

[XwolverineX]

I don't really read novels..

 

[tzarinna]

The Stand
The Dead Zone
The Hellbound Heart (Hellraiser)
American Pyscho
Waiting to Exhale
The Wedding
Of Mice and Men
Sometimes They Come Back
Thinner
Salem's Lot
Rawhead Rex


The Thief of Always (annouced,not film yet)

I'm sure I'm missing something.

 

[C. Lee]

I'm sure I'm missing something.

Like the fact that he wants to know about the NOVELIZATION of movies books you've read not the books that were turned into movies?t:

 

[ChrisBaleBatman]

BATMAN BEGINS was a good novel, by Denny O'Neil.

It really covers the stuff that the film couldn't. Altough, there's a whole part inbetween Bruce's return to Gotham and his rising as the Batman.....where it just seems to lag. Him sneaking into a museum and stuff. But, overall....damn good book.

 

[tzarinna]

Like the fact that he wants to know about the NOVELIZATION of movies books you've read not the books that were turned into movies?t:

Well that's no fun. t:
That's what I thought he meant but I decided to rebel.

 

[P.B.&Chocolate]

Superman Returns
Batman Begins
Sky Captain and the world of tommorow

 

[Tempest19]

Dude, I more or less- only read novel adaptations of movies. It allows me, as an aspiring film maker, to see the film and put the film together in my mind before I see the film. And from that I look at what the creative differences are between what I thought up and what the director thought up. That's a really cool thing for me.

I also, from time to time, where novels that a movie is based on. Currently I am reading 'The Prestige' because of the movie.

 

[KingOfDreams]

I read a bunch of Star Wars novels and a few Star Trek novels when I was younger. These are better than straight movie novelizations because they're new stories set in the world of the movies...or in the case of Star Trek, the TV show.

 

[Addendum]

The novelizations of '89 Batman and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

After I finished Last Crusade, I forever swore off reading movie novelizations.

 

[Carmine Falcone]

Nicolas Pileggi - Wiseguy

oh wait..you mean in reverse? Movie-book?


Well I once read....the book based on....



The Mask of Zorro.

 

[XwolverineX]

The novelizations of '89 Batman and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

After I finished Last Crusade, I forever swore off reading movie novelizations.

Sucked?

 

[That-Guy]

I don't know that I've read any novelizations of movies, because, what's the point? I have read a few comic book adaptations of superhero films (the Batman ones). All of them are horrible and leave major chunks of the story out.

I remember being in Dollar General once and seeing a novelization of the movie "Independence Day." I laughed my ass off.

 

[tzarinna]

I've never read any.

 

[Bat Attack]

I've read the novelizations of Child's Play 3 and Batman (1989).

 

[Ronny Shade]

I used to read all the star wars novels but then It got so I couldnt handle it anymore.

 

[3dman27]

bulletproof monk
spider-man 1&2
van hellsing
hellboy
star wars the empire strikes back&return of the jedi
ultraviolet
daredevil
elektra
the hulk
LOEG
teenage mutant ninja turtles1,2&3
moratal kombat
mortal kombat anhilation
[yes these ARE the novelizations i'm talking about]