![]() ![]() Never before, as that would have given away too much of the plot. Novelisations tended to come out in time to accompany the release of the film that they are based on, or just afterwards. ![]() We’re all familiar with comments on adaptations from literary sources along the lines of ‘It wasn’t as good as the book’, but I doubt that anybody has ever claimed a novelisation was better than the film it was based on. It was much darker than the film, which was already considered by many too dark for young Slade fans.Īs Allan Brown points out in his 2006 introduction to Robin Hardy and Anthony Shaffer’s The Wicker Man novel: ‘More often than not these are hack jobs, souvenirs, vestigial remnants of the days before videotape allowed enthusiasts to possess their own personal copies of films.’ That was the only one I know that significantly differed from its source material. I might have a copy of John Pidgeon’s Slade in Flame lying around somewhere but I’ve never felt the need to re-read it. Until this week, novelisations of films are something that I’ve managed to avoid since the 1970s. ![]()
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