This is on the Media's Midweek podcast, Unbrak Gladstone.

Well, we've arrived at the year's end and we know it awaits us, a blizzard of 2021 best

of lists, best albums, best books, best movies, best books that became movies.

That list includes House of Gucci, Nomadland, and Doom.

And after a thorough search, we couldn't find a best of list for movies turned into books.

Movie novelizations may be the red-headed stepchild of literature, but for some, it's a beloved

genre.

A few years back, then OTM producer Jesse Brennan reported this piece about his favorite

kind of books.

You know the experience.

You're standing in an airport or the grocery store checkout lane, and you notice a glossy

paperback titled, say, Batman vs Superman.

And you think, I didn't know that was a book first, and then you see the dreaded words,

adapted from the screenplay.

And you think, oh, and you keep moving.

No, there's not much respect for the film novelization, and nobody knows it better than

the people who write them.

But it seems to be the only thing that people recognize.

So I usually say novelization and then in parentheses, say, dreaded term.

Max Allen Collins is author of over 30 novelizations, including saving private Ryan, the mummy trilogy,

and water world.

Like many authors, he's worked his entire professional life to get out from under our

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