Back in 2016, former OTM producer Jesse Brenneman went inside the world of novelizations featuring authors Max Allan Collins, Alan Dean Foster, Elizabeth Hand, and Lee Goldberg. But the people who write them beg to differ. Instead, they're assumed to be the literary equivalent of merchandise: a way for the movie studios to make a few extra bucks, and a job for writers who aren't good enough to do anything else. Novelizations of films are regular best-sellers with cult followings - some are even more beloved than the films that spawned them - but respected they are not. Turn a great film into a book.that's another story. Turn a book into a great film and you're a visionary.
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