A very different case is Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian: A Junior Novelisation by Michael Anthony Steele. Unlike Night at the Museum: A Junior Novelisation, Leslie Goldman’s rewrite of Milan Trenc’s The Night at the Museum, (the storybook on which the film Night at the Museum is based), Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian: A Junior Novelisation is the junior novelisation of the sequel to the original Night at the Museum. It is thus a sort of a sequel to a film, and a sequel to the novelisation of a film, which was in itself the junior novelisation of the screenplay to a film which was based upon a book which was mostly pictures. Is that clear?
Joe Queenan on novelisations of films.
That’s an incredible paragraph, which takes at least three attempts to get your head round. Very well written, which is something you probably couldn’t say about most novelisations. Although I remember really enjoying the Independence Day book years and years ago, oddly.
