Personally I would have thought you would have the novelization already.
You ever read the novelizations for 2-4? There so much stuff added that, for example, in the one for 3 you don't get to the actual start of the movie until about a third of the way into the book. :-)
I did have it at one time. The movie is the result of a long protracted battle between Harold Livingston and Roddenberry. I saw Livingston's version of the script (well, the TV pilot, which was great) and the novel is essentially the Roddenberry version. Neat to compare the difference.
L:Heavy on character and drama. R:Heavy on describing the future.
The Novelization is actually kinda neat of you know the background of the movie.
Harold Livingston wrote the original draft of the movie, which was a GREAT dramatical actiony script. Really very good, but had a kinda squirrely ending.
Gene rewrote it, and watered it WAY down with "LOOK! HERE'S LIFE! IN THE FUTURE!"
So a fight began where Harold and Gene were rewriting each other right up to the last day of filming, and the movie just kinda had this schizophrenic attitude.
I have the Harold Livingston draft, which is really good (minus the "Whatever" ending), and the novel (which I lost years ago) is a good example of what Gene wanted out of the movie (THE FUTURE!)
x3
x1 (of the bottle on the right)
x1
x1 (Novel)
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
timeasmymeasure
no subject
Date: 2006-09-02 07:40 am (UTC)Good loot.
no subject
Date: 2006-09-02 11:44 am (UTC)I hope life keeps on treating you more and more fabulous each day.
no subject
Date: 2006-09-02 12:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-02 01:49 pm (UTC)You ever read the novelizations for 2-4? There so much stuff added that, for example, in the one for 3 you don't get to the actual start of the movie until about a third of the way into the book. :-)
no subject
Date: 2006-09-02 05:37 pm (UTC)L:Heavy on character and drama.
R:Heavy on describing the future.
no subject
Date: 2006-09-02 05:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-04 01:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-04 06:08 pm (UTC)Harold Livingston wrote the original draft of the movie, which was a GREAT dramatical actiony script. Really very good, but had a kinda squirrely ending.
Gene rewrote it, and watered it WAY down with "LOOK! HERE'S LIFE! IN THE FUTURE!"
So a fight began where Harold and Gene were rewriting each other right up to the last day of filming, and the movie just kinda had this schizophrenic attitude.
I have the Harold Livingston draft, which is really good (minus the "Whatever" ending), and the novel (which I lost years ago) is a good example of what Gene wanted out of the movie (THE FUTURE!)