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Chargement... The Director Should've Shot You: Memoirs of the Film Trade (2021)par Alan Dean Foster
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Foster is primarily a novelization writer which is what this book details, and the movies he worked on novelizing reads like a list of sci fi fan favourite films of all time. Big hits like Alien and Star Wars, cult classics like The Thing, even minor niche hits like Alien Nation. In part the book is just a film fan raving about some great movies, and that's entertaining enough (but more suitable for a blog style format?). Unfortunately many of the entries don't go much deeper than this; ADF gets an assignment for a movie, raves about the movie and plays coy with the specifics of working on it. The memorable moments are exceptions to this, like an inside perspective into how screwed up the Alien 3 production was, or the repeated absurdity of having a job to write a novelization for a story without getting access to a script or having seen the film. The first hand experiences meeting George Lucas and walking the Star Wars set prior to it being a hit were also great. Toward the end he gets into meaty detail about specific choices he makes to adapt or try to save weak points in a movie while adapting it, and that's what I'd hoped the entire book would be. Instead you get entries like that on The Thing which just makes reference to the original movie ending having been scripted differently and that this is what made it into the novelization, of course he doesn't make explicit what that change was or how it was handled or otherwise get into detail. It's more a wink and "buy the book to find out".
I get that there's an element of self promotion involved in writing something like this but it's a niche publisher's very expensive book. Why am I being sold an advertisement for another book?
On the whole though, it was enjoyable. Novelizations is such a weird bastard child of movie promotions, with rare unicorns that get famous in their own right. The Omen is one such unicorn. Some of ADFs own adaptations are runaway hits. I wish there'd been more in the book like the detailed latter parts, and maybe a bit less Talkin' Movies Blog. ( )