Movie novelizations

Forgiveness_Man wrote:(As some can probably tell, I am not the most avid of book readers)

Supernova wrote:

And yet you're the only one who's responded to any of the posts in this forum...what's that say?

Supernova wrote:

And yet you're the only one who's responded to any of the posts in this forum...what's that say?

Supernova wrote:Which ones have you read and which ones do you have and which ones are you looking for?


Read:
Footloose
Ferris Bueller's Day off
Pump up the Volume
Twilight Zone: the movie
Scarface
Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters 2
Nightmare on Elm Street 1-5
Batman
The Blob


Have:
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
WarGames
Batman Returns
Batman Forever
Batman and Robin


Looking for:
Gremlins
Fright Night

alan smithee wrote:
The closest I've come to that was 2001: A Space Odessy but that doesn't count in my book. Honestly, I'd rather read the book the movie was based on than see the movie the book was based on.

Supernova wrote:

alan smithee wrote:
The closest I've come to that was 2001: A Space Odessy but that doesn't count in my book. Honestly, I'd rather read the book the movie was based on than see the movie the book was based on.

Uh... 2001: A Space Odessy IS the book the movie was based on.

Parallel development of film and novelization
The collaborators originally planned to develop a novel first, free of the constraints of a normal script, and then to write the screenplay; they envisaged that the final writing credits would be "Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, based on a novel by Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick", to reflect their preeminence in their respective fields. In practice, however, the cinematic ideas required for the screenplay developed parallel to the novel, with cross-fertilization between the two. In the end, the screenplay credits were shared while the novel, released shortly after the film, was attributed to Clarke alone, but Clarke wrote later that "the nearest approximation to the complicated truth" is that the screenplay should be credited to "Kubrick and Clarke" and the novel to "Clarke and Kubrick".

I attended the Los Angeles premiere of the film, in 1968, at the Pantages Theater. It is impossible to describe the anticipation in the audience adequately. Kubrick had been working on the film in secrecy for some years, in collaboration, the audience knew, with author Arthur C. Clarke, special-effects expert Douglas Trumbull and consultants who advised him on the specific details of his imaginary future--everything from space station design to corporate logos. Fearing to fly and facing a deadline, Kubrick had sailed from England on the Queen Elizabeth, doing the editing while on board, and had continued to edit the film during a cross-country train journey. Now it finally was ready to be seen.

To describe that first screening as a disaster would be wrong, for many of those who remained until the end knew they had seen one of the greatest films ever made. But not everyone remained. Rock Hudson stalked down the aisle, complaining, ``Will someone tell me what the hell this is about?'' There were many other walkouts, and some restlessness at the film's slow pace (Kubrick immediately cut about 17 minutes, including a pod sequence that essentially repeated another one).

In the premier screening of the film, 241 people walked out of the theater, including Rock Hudson who said "Will someone tell me what the hell this is about?" Arthur C. Clarke once said, "If you understand '2001' completely, we failed. We wanted to raise far more questions than we answered."

alan smithee wrote:6 or 8 times? As W.C. Fields is quoted "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it." I'm not calling you a fool but maybe you might want to consider spending your money on something else