The craziest thing about these novelizations was that their release had to coincide with the film release for marketing purposes. So often, to give time for the writing process, books had to go off earlier screenplay drafts and often contained scenes not in the final film. https://twitter.com/chrisberez/status/1310775492233097221

As a kid I would often read the novelization before I got to see the actual movie; and then when I got to finally see the movie, I’d be confused because stuff was “missing.” It was because that at stuff didn’t make the final cut.

It’s actually for that exact reason that so,e people will seek out original novelizations. Those books can sometimes include details from earlier scripts that are valuable. Not so much for movies like PORKY’S, but STAR WARS? Yeah, that one had some additional backstory.

Jesus Christ the typos in this thread. We need a goddamn edit button like FB.