Authorized Novelizations Podcast
A podcast about the novelizations of your favorite movies. New episodes Thursdays! Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45 Patreon: patreon.com/authorizedpod
- OUT NOW! We discuss the novelization of Baldur's Gate. As far as we can tell, this book and author got done dirty in like twelve different ways, so we're providing a little outside perspective. Tune in again Thursday for the sequel discussion and author interview! Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45
- OUT NOW! The hosts of The Library: Halo Lorecast from @jumperscape.bsky.social join to discuss Halo: The Flood, and help us get our bearings in this wide new universe. Then we had a lovely chat with the author, William C. Dietz. Halo is making us new friends left and right! Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45
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- OUT NOW! @markstay.bsky.social joins to discuss Alien: Cult, the delightful new tertiary tome by our old friend Gavin G. Smith. Then we talk to Gavin, because we like him as much as we like his books! Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45
- OUT NOW! Alien enthusiast (and Andrew's college friend!) Trevor Thomas joins to discuss Alien: Isolation and its novelization. Then, author @kradec.bsky.social joins for an illuminating interview about his career and craft. Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45
- OUT NOW! Matt Fisher returns to discuss Death Stranding Vol. 2, which has the unenviable task of adapting the back half of the game's story. Traditionally, narratives come together in the final stretch. Kojima games are built different! How does the book fare? Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45
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- Heads up! Andrew guests on @andorkspod.com this week. Give it a listen, and keep an ear out for Alex on Authorized in a few months. open.spotify.com/episode/7nuk...
- OUT NOW! Our friend Matt Fisher joins again to discuss Death Stranding Vol. 1, a novelization that valiantly attempts to make sense of the game's baffling story. Similarly, Matt tries to help us understand the game's decidedly non-universal appeal. Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45
- OUT NOW! We read (a) Ben-Hur. Though it was marketed as a novelization of the 2016 film (or perhaps just a tie-in? did we make a mistake??), Carol Wallace actually adapted her great-great-grandfather's original 1880 novel. This is a good thing; Ben-Hur 2016 does not rock. Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45
- OUT NOW! @ethanalter.bsky.social returns to discuss apes once again. Different apes though. Where earlier games were light on narrative, Donkey Kong Land eschews it entirely. Luckily, stalwart franchise author Michael Teitelbaum has filled out its narrative as ably as ever. Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45
- OUT NOW! We rank the novelizations we read in 2025. These episodes take a bit more of a casual hangout approach, as evidenced by the fact that it takes us over 20 minutes to start ranking things. Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45
- OUT NOW! Dan Friesen of @knowledgefight.bsky.social joins again! The game Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest is widely considered an improvement on its predecessor. Will the novelization, for some reason subtitled Rescue on Crocodile Isle, pull off a similar coup? Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45
- OUT NOW! Dan Friesen of @knowledgefight.bsky.social joins to kick off our video game season (and 2026!) with the novelization of Donkey Kong Country. The game is light on narrative, so the book has to invent almost as much as it adapts. How does it fare? Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45
- OUT NOW! This re-release of our episode on Friday the 13th: Road Trip has a NEW GAME! Jump to the last 20 minutes to check it out. Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45
- As 2026 dawns, so will our season of video game novelizations! Featuring @ethanalter.bsky.social, @kradec.bsky.social, @philathans.bsky.social, @adamvole.com, @patrickhwillems.bsky.social, @thelastmachine.bsky.social, @dodgyboffin.com, @rockmarooned.bsky.social, @alexwolinetz.com, and more!
- OUT NOW! We return to Hannah's picks with Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Hannah loves this imperfect movie for showcasing Robin Hood's true strength: a joyful and generous heart. Whatever December 25th means to you, we hope your day is touched by the spirit of Robin Hood. Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45
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- OUT NOW! @patrickhwillems.bsky.social, @markstay.bsky.social, @dodgyboffin.com, and @mr-e-motion.bsky.social join to play Andrew Overbye's new original multi-path Indiana Jones adventure. Maybe our most unhinged episode yet? Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45 Play the game for yourself: tinyurl.com/4x64tcyj
- OUT NOW! Gavin Zalinger joins to discuss Star Trek: Generations. We are not using the Nexus to time travel and redo past episodes, but rather covering the second of two separate books. This is the senior novelization, in the style commonly known as old adult fiction. Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45
- OUT NOW! This re-release of our episode on Friday the 13th: The Carnival has a NEW GAME! Jump to the last 20 minutes to check it out. Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45
- OUT NOW! We consider Kristoffer Sundet our unofficial video game correspondent, so naturally we had him on to discuss the novelization of the film adaptation of a game he hasn't played and claims not to understand (though he's still got us beat on that front). Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45
- Questions for Andrew? Questions for Hannah? Questions for Andrew and Hannah? Submit them here to be answered on the year-end ranking episode! www.patreon.com/posts/143609...
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- The Larry Cohen love can no longer be shoehorned into Authorized and is spilling into other podcasts. Listen to Andrew on the Pink Smoke podcast!
- OUT NOW! @thelastmachine.bsky.social joins to discuss Speed Zone, theoretically a third entry in the Cannonball Run series. Can three SCTV alumni save a film with no story or jokes? Why do we keep doing this? We think it had something to do with something called Carquake? Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45
- It's Slow Maude Sunday! In addition to his prolific work in genre fiction, Alan Dean Foster is also an avid wildlife tourist. He has faced down lions and tigers and sharks, but none of those creatures had read his books. Find out if his Maude manuscript will finally send Hannah over the edge!
- NEW PATREON TIER: "Slow Maude" is $20 a month and will exist for the length of one pregnancy. If it raises $2,000, we will go to the Hayden Library in Arizona to read Alan Dean Foster's unpublished novelization of Maude's two-part abortion episode. Join now! www.patreon.com/c/authorized...
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- OUT NOW! @patrickhwillems.bsky.social and @dodgyboffin.com join again to celebrate Thanksgiving with a tertiary tome for the taste buds, this time @a24movies.bsky.social's Scrounging: A Cookbook. Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45
- OUT NOW! @mr-e-motion.bsky.social joins to discuss Death Race 2. We kinda like it, they don't. They are also our social media czar, meaning they write these posts! So why are they being referred to in third person? Who is the first person perspective? Do words mean things? Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45
- Apparently sometimes books can get adapted into movies?
- It's Slow Maude Sunday! Maude's historic two-parter tackled abortion in November of 1972, preceding Roe v. Wade by two months and likely fueling some wildly uncomfortable Thanksgivings. Help us read its unpublished novelization! www.patreon.com/c/authorized...
- NEW PATREON TIER: "Slow Maude" is $20 a month and will exist for the length of one pregnancy. If it raises $2,000, we will go to the Hayden Library in Arizona to read Alan Dean Foster's unpublished novelization of Maude's two-part abortion episode. Join now! www.patreon.com/c/authorized...
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- OUT NOW! @fodderfigure.bsky.social joins to discuss The Man from U.N.C.L.E. #3: The Copenhagen Affair. Our thirst for uncles knows no bounds, and Sarah devoted a whole chapter of her first book to her special interest in the series, so we’ve got a lot to discuss! Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45
- OUT NOW! This re-release of our episode on Friday the 13th: Jason's Curse has a NEW GAME! Jump to the last 20 minutes to check it out. Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45
- Any questions for Andrew and/or Hannah? Submit them here for the yearly ranking episode! www.patreon.com/posts/143609...
- NEW PATREON TIER: "Slow Maude" is $20 a month and will exist for the length of one pregnancy. If it raises $2,000, we will go to the Hayden Library in Arizona to read Alan Dean Foster's unpublished novelization of Maude's two-part abortion episode. Join now! www.patreon.com/c/authorized...
- OUT NOW! @jupinwhm.bsky.social from We Hate Movies joins again to discuss Star Trek: Generations. Will his hatred of movies extend to this one? No! He likes it and so do we! Will our goodwill toward this story extend to a literary adaptation aimed at kids and/or teens? Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45
- Love to see it! Hope you enjoy Vinge like we do
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- OUT NOW! @morganrichter.bsky.social joins to discuss a tertiary tome, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. #2: The Doomsday Affair. In addition to being a novelist, Morgan is an expert on all things manly and avuncular, so she's full of valuable insights. Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45
- OUT NOW! @thelastmachine.bsky.social joins as we continue our quest to watch everything even tangentially related to Carquake (aka Cannonball), whether it has been novelized or not. Will diminished expectations benefit the sequel to a movie we mostly didn't love? Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45
- OUT NOW! @rockmarooned.bsky.social actually DEFENDS Halloween Kills. How passionately? How compellingly? Do the rest of us find more to enjoy in the adaptation by frequent contemporary novelizer (and Authorized guest) Tim Waggoner? Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45
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- OUT NOW! We discuss Death Race (2008). Is it as good as Death Race 2000 (1975)? No! Is it fun to talk about why? Of course! Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45
- OUT NOW! @mattbors.bsky.social joins to discuss the novelization of The Toxic Avenger (2025). How will one Toxie adapter respond to the work of another? Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45
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- Reposted by Authorized Novelizations Podcastyou can love a character and still admit when they're wrong. we love Shadow but we can acknowledge his flaws (he has none) and we can hold him accountable for his wrongdoings (he has never done anything wrong in his life) and call him out on his actions (which are always correct)
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- This was a BLAST. @hsblechman.bsky.social and Overbye talk the philosophy underlying Hannah's #1 movie. It's a good day to listen.
- Video game novelizations season is already being recorded. This is in it :)
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- The thing about John Jakes is, this book is probably deeply profound.
- OUT NOW! @patrickcotnoir.bsky.social joins to discuss K.J. Anderson's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen! Overbye makes him and Hannah explain nine different monster continuities. Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45
- Reposted by Authorized Novelizations PodcastOoooo! @authorizedpod.bsky.social is covering the Ladyhawke novelization in their newest episode! I’ve wanted to read this one for YEARSSSSSSSSS Can’t wait to check it out.
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- OUT NOW! Natalie Garret joins to discuss the Tertiary Tome Superman: Welcome to Metropolis, as well as the new movie! Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45
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- OUT NOW! @davidlsims.bsky.social returns to discuss the novelization of Russell Mulcahy's The Shadow! Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45
- OUT NOW! @bilgeebiri.bsky.social returns to discuss the novelization of Wyatt Earp! The movie is bleh, the book is bleh, but put 'em together and you have something kind of okay. Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45
- "It's a good [summer] to die."
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- OUT NOW! @cowspod.com joins to discuss the novelization of Richie Rich! Hannah goes gaga over John Larroquette, and we discuss Richie foe Timmy Time, the time-traveling Timmy. Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45
