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* ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]'' had a novel and comic book based on [[Transformers Film Series|the 2007 movie]] which was based off the TV show which was based off a toyline which had a movie that many would say is loosely based off of ''Star Wars'' in the same way ''[[Inheritance Cycle|Eragon]]'' is. The novel also had a prequel novel; its plot varied greatly from the prequel comic and seemed to take place on the planet Dune.
* The ''[[Mortal Kombat (film)|Mortal Kombat]]'' movie was novelized shortly after its release. It was quite good, and much better than the movie.
* When ''[[Grease]]'' was novelized, the novelization dealt with the songs by turning them into prose dialogue. It was [https://web.archive.org/web/20150316022218/http://montyonmovies.blogspot.com/2008/12/grease-novel.html awkward]. On the positive side, however, the novelization is a vast expansion of the film, starting before Danny and Sandy actually meet, and incorporating loads of extra scenes, such as the characters dealing with the death of Buddy Holly. Scattered throughout are profanities more representative of the original stage version (Kenickie calls Danny a "faggot" at one point), and there is a T-Bird named Roger, as in the play - Doody is merely the name of an otherwise unimportant Rydell student. But that's not all - the entire story is told from the point of view of Sonny, whose girlfriend is a Pink Lady named Marcia; the addition of whom causes all of the Pink Lady/T-Bird romances to be shuffled around.
** ''[[Grease 2]]'' has a novelization as well, this time geared towards a young audience. As the book is clearly based on a rough draft of the film, now-lost deleted scenes can be read (such as the rest of the Frenchie material, and a scene at the talent show which completely spoils the 'Michael drove off a cliff and died' concept). The real fault, however, lies in the pure stupidity evident in spots - for example, Cool Rider Michael rides his motorcycle *up* a flight of stairs.
* Because [[Jim Henson]] himself supervised their writing and provided tons of material to author A.C.H. Smith (as revealed in a 2012 ''Empire'' magazine tribute to Henson), the novelizations of ''[[The Dark Crystal]]'' and ''Labyrinth'' contained information and scenes that didn't make it into the finished films. For the former, this included the names of all the Skeksis and Mystic characters, the alternate name for the Mystics (uRu), the passages in invented language which were changed to English for the final script, the deleted funeral scenes, etc.. The ''[[Labyrinth]]'' novelization was again very close to the movie, but contained expanded versions of the doorknockers and Fireys' sequences, the backstory of Sarah's mother leaving the family for an actor she worked with (and whom Jareth is the fantasy world equivalent of), and so forth.
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