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Old 03-23-2017, 01:27 PM   #16
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Maybe it is how he writes but I notice his books translate more directly into film than any other author I can recall. Very few of his scenes or subplots are greatly changed for the many movies made from his books. Maybe he writes in a more 'visual' way?
About Jurassic Park, didn't he tell people he was writing the most expensive movie ever made.
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Old 03-23-2017, 01:47 PM   #17
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I think that was just a novelization of the screenplay rather than the movie being based on the book.
Yes, it was a novelization based on Melissa Mathison's screenplay.


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That brings to mind the worse book to movie connection I have ever known.

E.T. (1982) The book was plain awful. Not just juvenile, but outright horrible.

I enjoyed the movie so much, I acquired the book and then after reading a few pages gave it to the Thrift store.
sounds about the same as Shrek
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