![]() ![]() But when you take a screenplay and turn it into a novel, it’s a much more difficult task because there’s much more writing involved and much more character development and scene development. When a couple of screenwriters take a best-selling novel and write a screenplay from it and it wins a couple Academy Awards, everybody says that’s great writing. What would you say to skeptics to sell them on novelizations?Ī novelization is much harder to write than a screenplay. The cover art to Foster's novel 'Splinter of the Mind's Eye,' which basically launched the Expanded Universe. That’s what I do when I’m writing a novelization. He might think about it afterwards, but when he’s watching and enjoying the film he immerses himself in the film. He’s not thinking whether or not the main character resembles somebody in another film he’s seen. It’s pretty much the same approach a 14-year-old boy takes when he goes into a theater to watch a film. I never think, for example, when I’m working on page 230 of chapter 15, that this character might bear some relationship to a character in Star Wars or Alien. ![]() When I’m doing a novelization aside from my own original work I completely immerse myself in that world and everything else gets blocked out. What’s it like approaching franchises with huge mythologies? You’ve had a hand in many recognizable sci-fi franchises, including Star Wars and Star Trek. There weren’t six screenplays sitting around ready to put into production. The story of Star Wars evolved in George’s mind as the films were made. I was basically writing my own Star Wars story as a spin-off and having fun doing that. ![]() That’s where George wanted to go, but things didn’t go that way after the success of the first film. So it was just: There would be this sequel book that would be designed to be filmed on a low budget. When you’re there at the time you’re not aware of what the future ramifications are going to be. ![]() Did you have any idea of that particular book’s impact on what would become the Expanded Universe? Īfter the novelization of the first movie, you wrote Splinter of the Mind’s Eye. The novelization of the original 'Star Wars' was ghostwritten by Foster and attributed to George Lucas. ![]()
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