Mark,
Re your question below:
> All of this movie talk made me think
about
> novelizations. We often talk
> about books converted into movies, but are there
any
> movies converted
> into books that are worth reading?
I assume that any movie script that wasn't actually produced,
which the writer later novelized (such as Chandler's PLAYBACK
or McBain's ANOTHER PART OF THE CITY) doesn't count.
If movie scripts which are unproduced, then novelised, and
then produced AFTER the publication of the novel may be
included, I'd try Fleming's THUNDERBALL or McMurtry's
LONESOME DOVE (not a mystery, but certainly
hard-boiled).
Of novelizations that appear in the expected manner, I'd
recommend DICK TRACY (unless you're not a Tracy fan), IN THE
LINE OF FIRE, U.S. MARSHALS (better than the movie), and
SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (again, not a mystery, but certainly
hard-boiled), all by Max Allan Collins. Al does a lot of
novelizations, as well as original novels based on characters
from TV shows
(BLUE BEGINNINGS, for example, is a "prequel" to the first
episode of N.Y.P.D. BLUE).
His most recent is kind of unusual. ROAD TO PERDITION is
based on the script for the movie based on the original comic
book script which Al wrote, so he's writing a novelization
based on a movie based on his own original source material.
Haven't read the novelization yet, but the graphic novel and
the movie are both great.
If this thread continues, I may have more suggestions.
JIM DOHERTY
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