A novelization is a novel that is written based on some other media story form rather than as an original work. A novel (from Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new" "news" or "short story
Novelizations usually add additional background material not found in the original work to flesh out the story, due to the fact that novels are generally longer than film screenplays. See also Pre-production Screenwriting A screenplay or script is a written plan authored by a Screenwriter, for a Film or Television Similarly, material from the screenplay or filmed scenes that are cut from the final production may still be present in a novelization, often because the novel is completed for publication while the film is still being edited for release. The practice was particularly popular for successful films and television series before the advent of home video, which gave people the ability to record programs or buy commercial releases for repeated viewing. A television program (US television programme (UK or television show (U Home video is a blanket term used for pre-recorded media that is either sold or hired for home entertainment
Novelizations have also become very popular among the fan fiction communities, particularly concerning video games.
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Novels
A novel as a tie-in to any successful major film release is considered an important marketing strategy. A movie tie-in book is a book frequently a Paperback but occasionally a Trade paperback or a Hardcover, that has a direct relationship to a specific If the film is based on a novel, the novel is generally reissued with a cover based on the film's poster (sometimes with pictures from the film included) but if it is an original screenplay or based on a novella or short story a novelization is often commissioned to fill the marketing niche. A novella is a written, Fictional Prose Narrative longer than a Novelette but shorter than a Novel. The short story is a literary genre of Fictional Prose Narrative that tends to be more concise and to the point than longer works of fiction such Novelizations have been published since at least the 1920s; for example, the 1928 film The Fleet's In! starring Clara Bow was novelized by Russell Holman. Clara Gordon Bow ( July 29, 1905 &ndash September 27 1965) was an American Actress and Sex symbol, who rose to fame
Comics
A similar practice is an adaptation of a film in comic book form, essentially an illustrated novelization. A comic book (often shortened to simply comic and sometimes called a comic paper or comic magazine) is a Magazine or Book of narrative The art in a comics adaptation can vary from original perspectives to directly copying still scenes from the film, though issues of actors' personality rights may prevent exact likeness of film characters. Personality rights are generally considered to consist of two types of rights the right to publicity or to keep one's image and likeness from being commercially exploited without permission The majority of Marvel Comics' Super Special series featured film adaptations; DC Comics customarily prints adaptations as stand-alone, one-shot issues. Marvel Comics is an American comic book company owned by Marvel Publishing Inc Marvel Comics Super Special was a series of one-off Comic books published by Marvel Comics from 1977 to DC Comics is an American comic book and related media company In the American Comic book industry the term one-shot is used to denote a pilot comic or a stand-alone story created to last as one issue Sometimes a comic book adaptation can lead to an ongoing licensed series by the same publisher; examples of these include Marvel's Star Wars series based on the Original trilogy and DC's various series based on the first six Star Trek films, both of which featured stories set during the "gaps" between the films. The verb license or grant license means to give permission The noun license is the document demonstrating that permission Star Wars is an epic Space opera franchise initially conceived by George Lucas during the 1970s and significantly expanded Star Wars is an epic Space opera franchise initially conceived by George Lucas during the 1970s and significantly expanded
Sequels
It has recently become common for authors who write novelizations to write original novel sequels in between novelizations. A sequel is a work in Literature, Film, or other media that portrays events following those of a previous work The novels Halo: The Fall of Reach and Halo: First Strike, which serve as prequels and sequels to the video game Halo: Combat Evolved, were written before and after the novelization of the game. Halo The Fall of Reach is a 2001 science fiction Novel by Eric Nylund based on the ''Halo'' series of video games and acts as a prequel Halo First Strike is the third novel in the ''Halo'' series and the second Halo novel written by Eric Nylund. A prequel is a work that portrays events and/or aspects of a previously completed narrative but is set prior to the existing narrative Halo Combat Evolved (commonly known as Halo or Halo 1) is a First-person shooter (FPS Video game developed Author Greg Cox wrote the original novel Underworld: Blood Enemy after writing the novelization of Underworld and before writing the novelization of the sequel film Underworld: Evolution. Greg Cox (born 1959 is a Science fiction Writer. He lives in Oxford, Pennsylvania, U Underworld Evolution is the second film in the ''Underworld'' series, following Underworld in 2003 Also, while novelizing the Resident Evil video games, author S. D. Perry wrote original novels that took place between the novelizations. Resident Evil (known in Japan as) is a Survival horror Video game series and Media franchise consisting of Comic books novelizations Stephani Danelle Perry (credited as SD Perry in her works is a novelist living in Portland Oregon. With the rise in recent years of films based on comic book properties, the publishers of the adapted properties have also started producing prequel comics as supplemental material, set in the canon of the films rather than that of the source material. This article is not about Literary canons of influential works of fiction but about the concept of a canon which defines the world of a particular fictional series
See also
References
- Jan Baetens & Marc Lits, eds: "Novelization. A tie-in is an authorized product based on a media property a company is releasing such as a movie or Video / DVD, Computer game, Video game Target Books was a British Publishing Imprint, established in 1973 by Universal-Tandem Publishing Co Ltd, a paperback publishing company From Film to Novel". Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2004.
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novelization
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- The writing of a novel based on fact; fictionalization.
- A text novel that is an adaptation of a story from a visual medium such as film.
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