Authorized Novelizations Podcast

This week on Authorized, we welcome back David Sims to discuss James Luceno’s novelization of 1994’s The Shadow! Dude can’t write action to save his life, but he’s got some other virtues.

Check out Our Other Episodes With David:

Species - https://open.spotify.com/episode/6MWymKKVfarkeTQeLRn9gw?si=dSDLxfWnTjyzWBu3J_CZMA

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes - https://open.spotify.com/episode/5A046BnLtRw9Ziveqo1qxw?si=Ho9swkN2QXWjdYg14tz2IQ

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New game, dude

Bilge Ebiri returns to discuss a book and movie both pretty terrible, but together unifying into one interesting piece of storytelling. Hannah made the game!

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ORIGINALLY AIRED FEBRUARY 17TH, 2022

Just when you think you're in the clear, scarier Terminator who has no bones. This week on Authorized, we're joined by Dan Kuan Peeples of the podcast Exit Interview to discuss Terminator 2: Judgment Day. It's bigger! It's badder! It has so many typos it's wild. Dan hadn't seen any of these before and really blesses us with his fresh eyes.

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Next Week: Shanghai Knights! 

Let me give you a big hug.

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ORIGINALLY AIRED FEBRUARY 15TH, 2022

Welcome, listener, to a utopia where all men are respectful and marriage is a rock solid institution. More than anything, a utopia where everything that happens is extremely cute. Today we tackle 2018's Book Club, an ode to finding yourself and loving who you find.

We're joined again by multi-talent Liz Falstreau to break down this charming film's many green screens and its even more numerous aged hunks. I mean, Andy Garcia looks incredible. It’s unfathomable?

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Welcome to the Hannah Season**! We start off Hannah's choices with Richie Rich! We talk John Laroquette, eating the rich, and the academic challenges facing the youth of our nation. Cows in the Field Joins!

**NOTICE: The Hannah Season will be administered bit and parcel now and again. It will not be consecutive. Such are the wishes of Hannah.

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ORIGINALLY AIRED 2/10/2022

You may remember Mean Girls from the '00s, but this thing is an enduring institution. Today on Authorized, we talk to Collins Conley, who played Caroline Kraft (As well as "Sexy Corn") in Mean Girls the Musical. Collins tells us about the ever-evolving show, talks Tina Fey, and weighs in on the 2017 novelization of the movie. 2017! Why so much later? Ultimately, we do not solve this. 

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Fear is the killer.

ORIGINALLY AIRED FEBRUARY 3RD, 2022

Books, they're just like movies! This week, author Gavin G. Smith returns to tell us about how the Aliens novelization tided him over until he was allowed to see the film. Truly, we have found the target audience for novelizations, and it is our guest.

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Next Week on Authorized: Mean Girls

Any excuse to revisit our friends at the 1960s IMF. Matt Fisher joins us to tackle the following episodes:

Season 3 Episode 9- The Play

Season 4 Episode 21- Lover's Knot

Season 7 Episode 11- Kidnap

Season 7 Episode 16- The Question

ORIGINALLY AIRED 1/27/2022

NEW GAME AT 1:58:30

Lord of the Rings WHOM? This week on Authorized, we tackle Wayland Drew's novelization of Willow, which, frankly, rules. It's so dang good. Where some authors see novelizations as homework, Wayland Drew is enthused to expand a goofy Ron Howard film into an outright epic. This is the best book we've covered, maybe. Honestly. It's so wonderful. 

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Next week: Aliens by Alan Dean Foster

He go low

He go high

There was a time we swore off the junior novelization. And every time we backpeddle, we immediately remember why we made them verboten.

Dani Dartnell joins!

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ORIGINALLY AIRED 1/24/2022

Remember that throwaway line about how there's a Sixth Sense spinoff trilogy? Well, we read 'em. In the first full episode of Tertiary Tomes, Overbye assembles a Wolf Pack of guest readers to dive into the further adventures of the precocious Cole Sear. And then after all that, Hannah read them anyways!

The books covered in this episode are the Sixth Sense: Secrets From Beyond books Survivor, Runaway, and Hangman.

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Next week: Willow by Wayland Drew

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ORIGINALLY AIRED 1/20/2022

The Sixth Sense- famously a hit with children. Thank god Scholastic book fairs peddled a (junior?) novelization of this very chill and normal movie. This week we're joined by Annie Kelly, the UK correspondent for QAnon Anonymous, to discuss Peter Lerangis' PG take on a classic. Surprisingly? It really works.

Check out Annie's podcast Vaccine: The Human Story- https://open.spotify.com/show/3FDLQroUXZJ2F79r6T7oOH

Annie's podcast QAnon Anonymous: https://open.spotify.com/show/6qAmVJsQW0k51ZJ9bDZyZd

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Next Week: Secrets from Beyond

They made more Andor.

We tackle the patron saint of novelizations' memoir. It's a real fun time! Patrick Willems and John Cribbs return!

Check out John's work at The Pink Smoke: https://thepinksmoke.com/

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Check out the Alien 3 episode for more ADF frustration with Patrick: https://shorturl.at/VBGYE

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On a surprise BONUS episode, Overbye and Kris go back over to Hannah's house to play more of this absolutely impossible mid-90s N64 game.

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Next on Authorized: Patrick Willems and John Cribbs read Alan Dean Foster's memoir

ORIINALLY AIRED 1/13/2022

The Nickelodeon novelizations, why do they beckon to us?? Today on Authorized, we try to get some of that Rugrats magic back by diving into Joseph Locke's Good Burger novelization. We discuss whether Dexter is a child savant, what Kurt's whole deal is, and debate whether Triampathol is real. Then Overbye ambushes his friends with a full-on book report on the direct-to-book sequel Good Burger 2 Go, to mixed results. You win some, you lose some!

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Next Week: The Sixth Sense by Peter Lerangis

An episode no one asked for.

Interview with Tim around 2 hours in!

Play The Game here: j-goodman.github.io/authorized-find-your-fate

It's a day late but I promise it's a good one.

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Next on Authorized: A fun bonus

ORIGINALLY AIRED JANUARY 6TH 2022

Happy Season 2 of Authorized! Get ready to swap out riddles for ice puns as we reconnect with Batman, whose face, line delivery, and acting chops all seem way different suddenly. Don't worry, though, he's still doing his usual sad boy schtick. I Read Movies host Paxton Holley tells us about his journey with the caped crusader and novelizations at large. It's Joel Schumacher's Batman & Robin! 

Check out Paxton's many terrific podcasts : https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cult-film-club-podcast/id582985524

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Next Week: Good Burger by Joseph Locke

You are James Bond, and Max Zorin is still causing a whole problem. Hope you aren’t tired of A View to A Kill! 

ORIGINALLY AIRED DECEMBER 8TH 2021

Should people who like each other kiss? Or is some ages old business rivalry worth not kissing? On today's bonus Authorized, we talk about Alexis  Bledel doing the lowest rent version of Romeo and Juliet possible while her "sisters" undergo emotional traumas. It's 2005's Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants! Come hear Overbye trip over Ken Kwapis' biography repeatedly before forcing everyone to talk about shitty friendships they've had. Is this what fun is? 

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Let's get this multipath ball rolling. Strike it Deadly! No guest!

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Next on Authorized: James Bond is Programmed for Danger

Buckle up for a month of James Bond multipath books!

It's time to discuss the real man the toy Buzz was based on.

This week on Authorized, we discuss limp POS film Lightyear. Specifically, the way it squanders the talent of its cast and has an extremely ill-defined science fiction reality. The book is also pretty meh! But I swear we have fun.

This is what reading that godawful novelization from last Thursday was all about. Today, we invite our resident video game expert Kris Sundet back to discuss the N64 game Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue! Buzz is intent on rescuing Woody from Al and his toy barn. Can his willpower overcome the horrendous N64 camera and physics engine?

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Monday on Authorized: Kris sticks around to read Lightyear

If this is your first episode of Authorized, I swear we talk about the books sometimes. This book is abhorrent. We mostly sing the praises of the great film Toy Story 2!

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Monday on Authorized: Kris Sundet plays Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue for N64

ORIGINALLY AIRED NOVEMBER 11TH 2021

What do cheating husbands, flirtatious students, and deceased dogs have in common? Uh, we’re not really sure, but it moved us! This week on Authorized, Hannah, Andrew and Andrew pick apart the 2007 film The Jane Austen Book Club. If we’re not covering a book based on a movie, it’s gotta be a movie about books! But we’ll never cover a movie because it's based on a book, ever! It's important to Overbye that you understand that's not what's happening here. Them’s the rules. Also we get very into our cats’ various health issues on this one. Be warned.

The wheel demanded an arm-wrestling drama, and we oblige.

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Next on Authorized: Toy Story 2

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ORIGINALLY AIRED OCTOBER 7TH 2021

Hey, Batman's actually sort of a weirdo and Nicole Kidman is downright thirsty to help him bang out his issues in therapy. Today on the season finale of Authorized, we talk Two Face's tortured logic and super forced schtick. To defeat him, Batman will need an acrobatic child who looks 35. It's Batman Forever by Peter David!

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Joan D. Vinge has done so much for us. It was time we read one of her books!

ORIGINALLY AIRED SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2021

Ah, 1969. The flamethrowers, the cultist murders, the unfettered gore. This week on Authorized, it's Once Upon A Time in Hollywood! Probably the only novelization we'll ever cover that's written by the director of the film, and arguably it's not a novelization at all. Follow your fearless hosts as we interrogate whether this director's fanfic of his own film improves, detracts, or so-so's original.

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Matt Bors (Justice Warriors + The Toxic Avenger!) returns to discuss the creative, the artful, the hateful Predator by Paul Monette. Did you know The Predator can turn into a tree?

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Next on Authorized: Maura Kidwell takes it Over the Top

FIRST AIRED SEPTEMBER 23RD 2021

Today on Authorized, we discuss the novelization of Bloodshot, a book filled with grisly futuristic violence and grislier implications about the future of capitalism. Then we have the pleasure of interviewing its author, Gavin G. Smith! 

Our interview with Gavin begins around 1:08:00.

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Next week on Authorized: Once Upon A Time In Hollywood by Quentin Tarantino

This week, we close out of the force dyad or Rebel Moon books.

ORIGINALLY AIRED SEPTEMBER 16TH 2021

This week we're joined by multi-disciplinary artist Liz Falstreau to discuss the novelization of the 90's film based on the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations. It's a timeless story of a boy dealing with a crush and also the escaped convict who is fixated on him. We discuss the invincibility of Chris Cooper, debate whether Ethan Hawke is a hunk, and somehow end up talking about Cars 3. It's a podcast! Staying on topic is hard.

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Look, it's a movie called Surf Ninjas. Just press play!

Ben F. Silverio joins!

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Next on Authorized: Jesse Hassenger heads to a rebellious moon to give scars

ORIGINALLY AIRED SEPTEMBER 9TH 2021

Is Artemis Gordon a dangerous madman, or the 19th century's most visionary inventor? This week, Max Fitzpatrick of The Max and Tony Show talks Wild Wild West, from its myriad Burger King toys to its Razzie-nominated theme song. Hop on Kevin Smith's (alleged) giant mechanical spider as we crack open Bruce Bethke's opus. 

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The Wheel can be so kind.

This week on Authorized, the Fates have assigned Sarah Welch-Larson the novelization of Canadian curling film Men With Brooms. It’s nuts that this thing has a novelization, and it’s nuts that it’s so very good.

Check out Sarah’s book, becoming Alien! : https://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Alien-Beginning-Idiosyncratic-Spirituality/dp/172528300X

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Next on Authorized: Ben F. Silverio teaches us of the Surf Ninjas

FIRST AIRED SEPTEMBER 2ND , 2021

This week on Authorized, Patrick Willems tells us the sad tale of Jedi Master Syfo-Dyas, and we break down Sheev Palpatine's Nixon Tapes. It's Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith by Matthew Stover! A book as good as the movie is not good.

Keep a lookout for Patrick's upcoming film on Nebula in the coming months! And check out all his Youtube content so you're caught up by then- https://www.youtube.com/c/patrickhwillems

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Pay the wheel’s price and then we play nice. This week on Authorized, Mark Stay returns to cover a book he actually chose- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. It’s full of so much character development for Scotty’s nephew and Saavik that James T. Kirk and his crew are like supporting characters. But it’s good, we promise!

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Next on Authorized: Sarah Welch-Larson goes curling

FIRST AIRED AUGUST 26TH, 2021

This week on Authorized, Andrew, Andrew, and Hannah tackle The Rugrats Movie, a survivalist thriller and spiritual precursor to Liam Neeson film The Grey. Also, it's a musical? 

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What is the price of success? Irrelevant question, because Pearl is just going to kill everyone regardless.

This week on Authorized, we’re joined by returning guest Bill Bria and new guest Mark Rennie to discuss the novelization of Pearl. What is it like to be in this character’s head for 180 pages? How will the book handle that big honkin’ monologue?

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Next on Authorized: Mark Stay on Star Trek II