read my stuff while you’re stuck at home, part 3: movie tie-ins

So many of us are kinda stuck staying home a lot, and that means more reading time! Or, at least, time spent reading so you don’t go batshit because you’re stuck staying at home a lot……

As one possible thing to read, how about my writing? I’ve already posted about my various TV tie-ins, including my Star Trek work and my tie-ins to various and sundry other shows, and now we turn to my movie tie-ins. I’ve written both original novels and movie novelizations, as well as short stories and nonfiction, in the worlds of Alien, Blade Runner, Cars, Gargantua, Darkness Falls, King Kong, Kung Fu Panda, Mary Shelley, Night of the Living Dead, Resident Evil, Serenity, and Star Wars.

Alien

Novels:

• Isolation — a novelization of the 2014 videogame, taking place between Alien and Aliens as Amanda Ripley, Ellen’s daughter, tries to find out what happened to her Mom by traveling to Sevastapol Station where the Nostromo flight recorder has been recovered

Short stories:

• “Deep Background” in Bug Hunt — a reporter is embedded with a platoon of Colonial Marines, who are sent to a planet for what should be a straightforward mission…

Blade Runner

Nonfiction:

• “Do Blades Dream of Electric Runners?” in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? — each issue of BOOM! Studios’s comic book version of the Philip K. Dick novella had an essay in the back, and mine was in issue #19 and is reprinted along with all the others in the omnibus; I talk about the comparison between the novella and the cult classic movie based on it

Cars

Comic books:

• Rust Bucket Derby — Tow Mater starts up a demolition derby and Red goes on trial for a crime he didn’t commit

Darkness Falls

Novels:

• Darkness Falls — novelization of the 2003 horror film about the secret origin of the Tooth Fairy, who preys on children and adults alike

Gargantua

Novels:

• Gargantua (as K. Robert Andreassi) — novelization of the 1998 TV movie about a family of monsters who menace a tropical island

King Kong

Nonfiction:

• “‘Twas Stupidity Killed the Beast” in King Kong is Back! — my essay on how it wasn’t beauty that killed the beast, as the famous closing line of King Kong insists, but rather human venality

Kung Fu Panda

Comic books:

• “Contest of Chompions” in Tales of the Dragon Warrior #1 — an eating contest and a fighting contest are at the same time, and Po must somehow participate in both

Mary Shelley

Nonfiction:

• “‘I Was Brought Into This World to be Abandoned’—Mary Shelley Gives Us the Heroine She Was” on Tor.com — a review of the movie

Night of the Living Dead

Short stories:

• “Live and On the Scene” in Nights of the Living Dead — during the zombie outbreak of the movie, a reporter from WIC-TV in Pittsburgh reports on the strange deaths, which start to hit very close to home

Resident Evil

Novels:

• Genesis — a novelization of the 2001 movie Resident Evil (given the subtitle to distinguish it from the sequels), released in 2004 alongside the novelization of its sequel Apocalypse, as Alice Abernathy must remember who she is while trying to survive multiple deathtraps and a whole lotta zombies
• Apocalypse — a novelization of the 2004 sequel, where the zombies take over Raccoon City, and Alice and several new friends must stop them, as well as the creature Nemesis
• Extinction — a novelization of the 2007 movie, where the world is a wasteland, overrun by the undead, and Alice teams up with a group of survivors to stop the Umbrella Corporation from making things worse

Serenity (Firefly)

Novels:

• Serenity — the novelization of the 2005 movie that concluded the River Tam storyline from the Firefly TV series

Nonfiction:

• “‘The Train Job’ Didn’t Do the Job” in Finding Serenity: Anti-Heroes, Lost Shepherds, and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon’s Firefly — my essay on why airing “The Train Job” first was a big factor in Firefly not finding enough of an audience to stay on the air

Games:

• “Merciless” in Echoes of War Supplement #2: Things Don’t Go Smooth — I wrote this module for the Firefly RPG in which the players must do a heist in a museum of full of Earth-That-Was ephemera

Star Wars

Nonfiction:

• “The Madness of King George” in Star Wars on Trial — I provide a counterpoint to David Brin’s 1999 essay “What’s Wrong (and Right) with The Phantom Menace,” where I disagree with his thesis that the politics of Star Wars are elitist and un-democratic
• “Top Ten Positives About the Prequel Trilogy” in A Long Time Ago: Exploring the Star Wars Cinematic Universe — I enumerate ten good things about The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, and Revenge of the Sith (yes, I actually found ten)