4/9/2023 0 Comments Ryan harvery impulses![]() Fewer big tent pole movies are getting the prose treatment. A wanderer in a bookstore might spot a paperback copy of Blockbuster Film You Kinda Enjoyed and think to herself, “Hey, this might be a fun airplane read.”īut there aren’t as many bookstores to wander in these blighted times and with the gap narrowing between the time of a film’s release and its DVD/Blu-ray popping up in the impulse item rack of the supermarket, the niche genre of the novelization has entered a slow death cycle. Movie novelizations are marketing after-thoughts and I think most readers pick them up as after-thoughts as well. I have never watched a movie and then immediately felt an urge to “Read the Jove Paperback” (or whatever publisher released the tie-in). By Fritz Leiber, from a Screenplay by Clair Huffaker
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