"Let's say that I might novelize the story," he said, smiling.

It has seemed only reasonable to novelize this report.

Ivan said, "He's going to novelize a movie based on a novel?"

Godin said that he would have liked to novelize the game Myst, a personal computer game, into a book.

Wood would also novelize the screenplay for the next Bond film, Moonraker in 1979.

You can butt into other people's lives, novelize their suffering, sell it for a profit, but your life is off-limits?"

Clavell was not the first author to novelize the story of Will Adams; several earlier and less successful attempts exist.

All the reviewers express bewilderment at Dunne's decision to novelize the trial, since he ends up using real names for every character but himself.

Stackpole went on to novelize the squadron's tale in his X-wing book series, which initially spanned four volumes.

L'Amour retained the right to novelize the screenplay and did so, even though the screenplay differed substantially from the original story.

In 1968 it was turned into a movie directed by Joseph Losey, after which another writer was hired to "novelize" it again.

Later authors would also novelize the Adams story, the best known is James Clavell's Shōgun (1975) and subsequent 1980 film.

Godin, the head of a book packaging company, created the series idea, selected games to novelize, found writers for the books, and contacted the publisher for approval.

He did little work outside of television, although he did novelize his script of The Two Doctors for Target Books in 1986.

The series of books aim to novelize the story of Doom 3, with the first installment, Worlds on Fire, published on February 26, 2008.

Dalton was the first among many authors to novelize the true story of William Adams, who was the first Englishman to reach Japan in the 17th century.

Would novelize it, as Monarch Books had novelized such undying film classics as Jack the Ripper, Gorgo, and Konga.

Matthew J. Costello, who worked with Devine in The 7th Guest, would also help plot Doom 3 and, like 7th Guest, later novelize it.

At BlizzCon 2007, Chris Metzen stated that he hoped to novelize the entirety of StarCraft and Brood War into a definitive text-based story.

If BMW's brand-new 750iL had existed when Tom Wolfe sat down to novelize with "The Bonfire of the Vanities," it would have been the car of choice for his high-society hero.

While on the set, Kahn gave a copy of his novel, World Enough, and Time, to Spielberg - which resulted in Kahn getting the assignment to novelize the movie Poltergeist, then in post-production.

Early on in penning the first of the novels, I knew that I had made a number of references to TOS episodes, even going so far as to novelize and expand some scenes from the series itself.

James Southall Wilson, writing in The Virginia Quarterly Review, said, "Not even if some future young man attempts to 'novelize' the entire life of the critters under a rock could living in the South be presented on a lower level than here."

All of this is lucidly and soberly recounted by Mr. Stille, who manages to strike just the right tone in "Excellent Cadavers," allowing the facts to speak for themselves, resisting the temptation to sensationalize or novelize or titillate the reader with lurid reconstructions of events.

Clavell was not the first author to novelise the story of Will Adams, in fact there were many earlier though less successful attempts.

Q Will you ever novelise the 'Dr Who' episodes you wrote?

Saward was reluctant to novelise these scripts himself due to the large percentage of the author's royalties demanded by the agents of the creator of the Daleks, Terry Nation, for the inclusion of the creatures, and other writers were dissuaded for the same reason.