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Post by deadsword on Aug 6, 2006 5:24:36 GMT
I was hoping there might be a novel of this version. Maybe someday there could be one. Anyone heard of if there has been one or someday will be one?
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Post by Lensman on Aug 6, 2006 8:00:19 GMT
Asking my good friend Google.com, who's often knowledgable about such things , the only thing he reported before I quit listening (he does ramble on a bit) is a novelization of the pilot of the TV series "War of the Worlds". Of course we can't be certain there won't be a novelization in the future, but these days novelizations generally come out slightly in advance of the movie, and as it's now over a year after the movie's release, it's looking more and more unlikely.
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Post by deadsword on Aug 7, 2006 6:12:39 GMT
Suppose I or somebody else were to make one. What would we have to do once we got most or all of it together? Deal with copywritghts etc? Would i need ss concent or who ever bought the rights to wotw concent?
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Post by Lensman on Aug 7, 2006 7:40:43 GMT
If you want to sell, publically post (on the Internet or elsewhere), or distribute anything based directly on Spielberg's "War of the Worlds" movie, then of course you need the consent of the copyright holder, which I would guess is Paramount. You could try asking of course, but Paramount very rarely licenses fan writings for sale. There were two Star Trek--The New Voyages collections of fan fiction short stories, back in 1976 and 1978. Possibly there were other cases of licensed fan fiction, but even if so it is quite rare for Paramount to do that.
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Post by Killraven on Aug 7, 2006 11:57:21 GMT
Not really sure why anyone would want a sub-standard novel of a sub-standard film!? ;D
KR
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Post by wotwfan48 on Aug 7, 2006 16:05:40 GMT
I was hoping there might be a novel of this version. Maybe someday there could be one. Anyone heard of if there has been one or someday will be one? I anderstand your point, books are far more details then a movie, could 500 pages or so, a movie is 2hrs or so. However, a book after the movie???, could be really hard to sell, but i am not an expert, can't say if it would work or not, but I dought it. , And you know what, if we could put, in that book, all the things that wotw fan, would like to see in the movie, why not maybe, this would be it. Chantale.
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Post by Lensman on Aug 8, 2006 0:20:58 GMT
Novelizations of films are never so long as 500 pages. The ones I have vary between 180 pages ("Raiders of the Lost Ark") to about 300 pages ("Star Trek III"). "Star Wars" was 220 pages.
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Post by deadsword on Aug 8, 2006 10:39:48 GMT
why should i bother making posts in here anymore?
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Post by EvilNerfherder on Aug 8, 2006 11:13:45 GMT
What's the matter now?
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Post by richardburton on Aug 8, 2006 12:18:27 GMT
Deadsword, I think (and correct me if I'm wrong) that Killraven was just having a bit of a joke - I don't think that was meant as a slight on you or anyone else.
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Post by Killraven on Aug 8, 2006 13:28:56 GMT
Deadsword, I think (and correct me if I'm wrong) that Killraven was just having a bit of a joke - I don't think that was meant as a slight on you or anyone else. Yeah - apologies for my barbed tongue in cheek ;D Be honest though, a Koepp penned WOTW novel would surely come across a bit like McDonalds opening a string of Egon Ronay-inspired restaurants The reason no book has surfaced yet could well be that the film makers think there might be some confusion caused with HG's original and best? KR
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Post by wastedyuthe on Aug 8, 2006 19:38:45 GMT
It is a shame there isn't one imo. Once I heard of the scenes that could have been in it (especially the Camelot scene) I looked on the net for a book based on this film, hoping there would be one as most of the time you find parts in the book that were taken out of the film. This would have at least given us an idea as to how the scene would have played. Pity.
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Post by EvilNerfherder on Aug 8, 2006 22:48:13 GMT
Novelisations can be interesting, especially ones based on early versions of the script. For example... the Spielberg penned 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' novelisation which has a few scenes that didn't make it to the film, like a scene in which the aliens get 'drunk' at the landing site when given coca-cola.. or Alan Dean Foster's 'The Thing' novel.. which also follows an earlier script and has some different situations and characters in it. The Alan Dean Foster tie-ins are generally great. Then there are others, like those by the self appointed king of such things, Kevin J. Anderson... a man who has turned his envious eyes towards TWoTW a couple of times now (I was a bit disappointed with his entries in 'Global Dispatches'... too many of Wells' own phrases in there). He's competent and his books pass a few hours but I did like one.. that was the novel of 'LXG'... and that partly was because it had a paragraph at the end which foresaw the, now seemingly not going to happen, sequel in which the league tackle the Martian invaders. All in all, earlier film novelisations tend to be better than ones from more recent times. Maybe if Spielberg wrote a tie-in for his TWoTW movie, as he did with CE3K, we might get a glimpse at what he originally envisaged, rather than the rushed movie we ended up with. I'd be surprised if there was a novelisation a year or more after the movie opened though.
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Post by nervouspete on Aug 9, 2006 0:53:28 GMT
Nerf, PLEASE tell me that you've read the Alan Moore & Kevin O'Neill "League of Extraordinary Gentleman" comics. Volume II (seven issues) deals almost entirely with the Wellsian invasion, and is wonderful and very darkly funny.
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Post by EvilNerfherder on Aug 9, 2006 8:49:30 GMT
I don't own them but I read someone elses.
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Post by deadsword on Aug 10, 2006 4:28:45 GMT
sorry folks just that in some of the posts i make i get sort of lost in some of the replies. As in alot of times I have no idea what somebody is talking about in some of them. No offense.
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Post by EvilNerfherder on Aug 10, 2006 10:52:39 GMT
I'm sure people won't mind explaining stuff you don't understand.
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