It’s probably wrong to criticize this book overmuch, as novelizations are by nature an extremely hasty and disreputable form of literature. It’s true that occasionally a novelization will transcend its limitations, but this one doesn’t.
This paperback relic, hailing from the psychedelic era, offers a fictional extrapolation on the real-life LSD contamination chronicled in THE DAY OF ST. ANTHONY’S FIRE by John G. Fuller
An impressively wrought exercise in surreal delirium that has yet to receive its proper due
His name may not appear anywhere on it, but make no mistake: Mr. Steven Spielberg was the guiding force behind this late 1970s screenplay
Yet another example of mislabeled literary horror
This justifiably forgotten Halloween themed relic is most interesting not for what it is but, rather, for what it isn’t
Certainly one of the most famous unfilmed screenplays of all time, MEGALOPOLIS is Francis Ford Coppola’s longtime dream project
Here we have what has fast become one of the most fabled unfilmed screenplays: a 245 page science fiction themed oddity from Shane Carruth, of PRIMER (2004) and UPSTREAM COLOR (2013)
A historical epic in the grand tradition, ALAMUT is notable for its subject, a fascinating one that has been surprisingly under-utilized in literature: the so-called “Old Man of the Mountain” Hasan-i Sabbah
Among the world’s most intriguing unmade film projects this 128 page screenplay, the final script to be written by Japan’s late Akira Kurosawa (together with frequent collaborator Masato Ide, who goes uncredited), looms rather largely