Proteus is the name of the submarine in the original story by Otto Klement and Jay Lewis Bixby, which became the basis for the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage and Issac Asimov's novelization.

* In the novelization of the film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, written by Peter George, an explanation is given that the title character, " Dr. Strangelove ", had been wounded, and these wounds had left him with only one hand, and wheelchair-bound, because of the bombings of Peenemünde while he worked there for Nazi Germany.

The novelization depicts this scene from Dooku's point of view: in his final moments, he realizes that Sidious had been using him as a means to engineer the Clone Wars, and as a placeholder for the true apprentice, Anakin Skywalker.

For example, in the novelization for ' The Official Visit ', Sir Humphrey manages to confuse Hacker, by reeling-off a plethora of acronyms -- without explaining them, leaving Hacker with nonsense to fathom.

A novelization of this serial was written by David White for Black Coat Press under the title Fantômas in America in 2007.

Fantasy author Kathryn Wesley wrote a novelization of Hwang's teleplay for The Lost Empire under the title The Monkey King.

2 for instance are each novelization of three key Xander episodes from the show's first three seasons, spanning " Teacher's Pet " to " The Zeppo ".

In the novelization " A View To A Thrill ", it is explained that he was shot in the mouth during a bank robbery and " to save his life, the doctors had given him a set of metal teeth, and motors for jaw muscles.

For the first eight months Scamp had continuity and was written by Ward Greene, the King Features editor whose short story and novelization contributed to the development of the storyline for Lady and the Tramp.

In the film's novelization, her father is revealed as the king of Tir Asleen, which becomes a further factor for Sorsha to turn against her mother.

( Though removed from the theatrical version, the battle with the lake monster was retained for both Marvel Comics ' adaptation and Wayland Drew's novelization of the film.

The first was a novelization of the first two miniseries combined into one story, originally planned as 2 books, Pinnacle later changed their minds during its writing, and decreed that it should be one book ( The publishers were then left with the option of another book, this became " East coast crisis " ) Because the Writers guide was not ready in time for the authors to consult, most of the original novels that followed did not feature characters or continuing storylines from the TV series, but rather focused on battles against the alien invaders in other parts of the world, some were also set during the " unrecorded year " between the end of " The Final battle " and " Liberation day " to get around this problem.

The novelization of that movie provided a different reason for the use of books: sabotage by somebody working on the Starfleet side of the conspiracy uncovered by the crew in the story, but the novelization is not part of the Star Trek canon.

Tinker Bell ( often misspelled as Tinkerbell, also referred to as Tink for short ), is a fictional character from J. M. Barrie's 1904 play Peter Pan and its 1911 novelization Peter and Wendy.

The author of the graphic novel, Max Allan Collins, was hired to write the novelization for the film adaptation.

A novelization written by Piers Anthony was published instead of a tie-in book containing the story that the film was based on, Dick's " We Can Remember It for You Wholesale ".

Bantam Books obtained the rights for a paperback novelization based on the screenplay and approached Isaac Asimov to write it.

This agrees with the Star Trek III: The Search for Spock novelization which said Saavik has never been to Vulcan until then.

( David, in both the novel and final film versions of The Search for Spock, would subsequently be killed by Klingons ; in the novelization, Saavik's reaction to this is to attack one of the Klingons bare-handed, forcing the enemy to stun her into unconsciousness, but she remains calm in the film, simply telling Kirk his son has been killed.

The novelization of this film actually includes a sequence in which Valeris, newly appointed to the Enterprise, meets Saavik, but it is not known if such a scene was ever planned for the movie.

The full names for Dex and Editor Paley were revealed in the novelization written by Kevin J. Anderson.

While in high school, he submitted for a " Creative Writing assignment " a novelization of Chris Claremont's X-Men and the Starjammers story, which gained him an A + grade for imagination and inventiveness.

In the X-Men: The Last Stand novelization, Sage is a new student at the mansion being trained by Wolverine, along with Cannonball, Danielle Moonstar, and Gambit.

* In the novelization of X-Men: The Last Stand, he goes with the X-Men to Alcatraz Island.

In the novelization of X-Men: The Last Stand, the President is named " David Cockrum.

* In the novelization of X-Men: The Last Stand by Chris Claremont, he is introduced towards the end when Logan is giving a class for new potential X-Men including Gambit, Sage, and Danielle Moonstar.

* In the novelization of X-Men 3, Moonstar is recruited as a future X-Man, alongside Cannonball, Sage, Gambit, and others.

* Illyana was mentioned in the novelization of X-Men: The Last Stand, stating that Shadowcat and Illyana were pen pals.

In 2000 Stillman published a novelization of the film, The Last Days of Disco, with Cocktails at Petrossian Afterwards.

Pyro's fate is unknown, although the novelization describes Iceman carrying him to safety as the facility around them collapses.

A novelization of the film was written by Lee Sheridan adapted from Richard Matheson's screenplay in 1961 and published by Lancer Books in paperback.

* The Agony and the Ecstasy, Irving Stone's novelization of Michelangelo's life, depicts the events in Florence from the Medici's point of view.

In Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi ( 1983 ), set six months after The Empire Strikes Back ( in the novelization ), Obi-Wan Kenobi appears on Dagobah to talk with Luke, who has learned from a dying Yoda that Vader is indeed his father.

Aside from the graphic novelization of The Phantom Menace, Qui-Gon appears infrequently in Star Wars-related comic books.

The film was adapted by George Seaton from a novelization of Bernadette's story, written by Franz Werfel.

The Omen was released following a successful $ 2. 8 million marketing campaign inspired by the one from Jaws one year prior, with two weeks of sneak previews, a novelization by screenwriter David Seltzer, and the logo with " 666 " inside the film's title as the centerpiece of the advertisement.

In the film ( further explained in the film's novelization ) it is partly revealed that he is a disgraced knight from the kingdom of Galladoorn.

The novelization of the film, written by Iain Johnstone, begins with a letter, written by Archie Leach ( Cleese's character in Wanda ) to Rollo, revealing that they are actually twin brothers ; Rollo changed his surname from " Leach " to " Lee " in order to improve his chances of advancement within the Hong Kong police.

The plan was ultimately foiled by the Federation's Londo Bell taskforce, headed by Bright Noa, and his old adversary from the One Year War, Amuro Ray, when Amuro managed to push the falling Axis away, sacrificing himself and killing Char in the process ( while their deaths were never officially confirmed in the movie, their deaths are confirmed in the novelization of Char's Counterattack ).

As depicted in the Revenge of the Sith novelization and deleted scenes from the film itself, a bloc of senators began to emerge, even before the Clone Wars had ended, who opposed Palpatine's authoritarian rule and resented his treatment of the Jedi and other opponents.

Technically the first novelization of a James Bond screenplay, it was born from a collaboration by five people: Ian Fleming, Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, Ivar Bryce and Ernest Cuneo, although the controversial shared credit of Fleming, McClory and Whittingham was the result of a courtroom decision.

In 2003, a novelization of stories from the film series was written by Kei Ohishi, called Ju-On.

In a later novelization of the film, Scorpio was referred to as " Charles Davis " by Lt. Bressler, a former mental patient from Springfield, Massachusetts who murdered his grandparents while still a teenager.

But this seems to be a " novelization " of the play, stitched together with bits from Twine ; Wilkins mentions the play in the Argument to his version of the story – so that Wilkins ' novel derives from the play, not the play from the novel.

In several cases, a novelization has been released based on a movie which was in turn adapted from an original novel.

Writer David Whitaker omitted the An Unearthly Child adventure from the first spin-off novelization, Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks ( later retitled Doctor Who and the Daleks and Doctor Who-The Daleks ), with Ian and Barbara's entrance into the TARDIS leading directly into an adaptation of the second televised serial, The Daleks.

The stories from Tales were originally serialized prior to their novelization, with the first four titles appearing as regular installments in the San Francisco Chronicle, while the fifth appeared in the San Francisco Examiner.