According to Films into Books: An Analytical Bibliography of Film, Novelizations, Movie and TV Tie-Ins one of the first mainstream talkies to get the book treatment was the 1933 classic King Kong. The novelization itself has a surprisingly long history, having popped up almost 100 years ago with silent films like Sparrows and London After Midnight. But Hollywood hasn’t dropped them completely.
As studios have made bigger bets on a smaller number of films, the quantity of novelizations produced annually has decreased. (Apparently, she did not remember purchasing the novelization of Home Alone by Todd Strasser for me when I was a kid.) Not every novelization is a hit like Godzilla, of course, nor is it a growing part of the book industry. To quote my mother during a recent phone conversation we had on the subject, “People buy these books?” Yes, Mom, they do. If you are unfamiliar with the world of novelizations, your immediate reaction to their existence is likely one of incredulity. Martin’s A Song of Fire and Ice series, sat a book adaptation of the blockbuster film Godzilla, written by Greg Cox.Ĭox’s book is what’s known in the business as a movie “novelization.” The term means exactly what you think it does: it’s a novel based on a film, one fleshed out with a greater attention to character backstory and more descriptive action sequences. After Inferno by Dan Brown and several books in George R.R. This past June, The New York Times Best Seller List for mass-market paperbacks featured an outlier among its usual list of suspects.
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