I remember reading them back in the early 90s (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Far and Away, Back to the Future). They don’t seem to be a thing anymore (or am I just not noticing them).

As an aside I remember liking them but I was a preteen at the time so maybe they were terrible and I just liked the movies.

  • flippythemaster@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Much less frequent, but still around here and there. It seems increasingly common for movies to be based on a book rather than the other way around because Hollywood is so IP crazy. Even Oppenheimer was based on a particular biography of the man.

    Off the top of my head I can say that the recent Godzilla films got novelizations (apparently you can even preorder the novelization of the upcoming Godzilla vs Kong 2), but you’re right in thinking it’s rarer than it once was since I can’t think of any others right now.

    • WesternRover@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Just because a movie was based on a book, that’s apparently no bar to adapting it back to a book again. This Stack Overflow question lists Blade Runner, Planet of the Apes, V for Vendetta, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, The Wicker Man and many others.

      But as of yet no Oppenheimer junior novelization appears to be forthcoming…

      • StovardBule@alien.topBEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Thinking of how there was a licensed board game based on the movie Battleship, which is, of course, based on the board game.

        Also a board game based on The Queen’s Gambit from Netflix. I don’t if that was just chess, or had some relevant metagame?

      • MrPogoUK@alien.topBEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I remember noticing a few of those when I was a kid. I think most of the Disney movies that were based on fairy tales then got a novelisation a lot longer than the original story.