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Originally Posted by ratinox
Ghostwriting be like that.  |
Oh, yeah. I get it. But when the ghost is so openly revealed, like the Wizard behind the curtain in Oz, why keep up the pretense?
Incidentally, there was a novelization of Close Encounters of the Third Kind by Spielberg. So far as I know, Spielberg actually wrote the book. I've never heard that it was written by someone else. Anyone have evidence that I am wrong?
Edit: I went looking again and found a recent Substack article that contains the following:
from a Spielberg interview in the 17th issue of Starlog
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...I was going to have direct writing input into the book. But post-production on the movie became so impossible that I had to get somebody else to write it. I didn't write the first, second, or third drafts. Those were written, based on my screenplay, by Leslie Waller, a very good writer. When I read his drafts, though, I told the publishers that unless it was cleaned up I wouldn't let my name go out with the book. So I sat down and spent less than a week – I wouldn't say rewriting the novel – but polishing it, and taking a lot of the plot and twisting it back into the direction of the screenplay. All told, there's about 20 percent of me in the book. I wish I could say there was more, but there's not.
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