AUGGGGHHHHH!

All right, I know I should have expected this but it’s still gut-wrenchingly disgusting.

They’ve released a novelization of V for Vendetta, the movie.

The movie was based on a book — a graphic novel, to be precise. But the movie is apparently so different from the book that they had to release a new book!

AUGH!

The cover says “A novelization by Steve Moore / Based on the screenplay by the Wachowski Brothers / Based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore and David Lloyd.”

So it’s a novel based on a screenplay that’s based on a novel. Everyone follow that?

AUGH!

Next thing you know they’ll release a novelization of, oh, The Cat in the Hat. Oh, they already did.

The Fray

braine says:

There’s a very good customer review on there.

March 22nd, 2006 at 2:23 PM

Miranda says:

The movie turned out really fracking awesome. They say Moore didn’t want to be involved mostly because of the DC Comics had treated him, not because of the screenplay.

March 22nd, 2006 at 5:43 PM

Eric Berlin says:

My favorite example of this genre is the novelization of the movie Great Expectations, which was itself based on a book you may have heard of.

March 22nd, 2006 at 8:09 PM

Mason says:

I’ve heard that people who haven’t read the comic loved the movie; those who had hated it. I think that says as much about the quality of the source material as it does the film.

March 28th, 2006 at 3:39 PM