Authorized Novelizations Podcast

Noel Murray comes back! For Help! Follow Noel on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/noelmu.bsky.social

To kick off our season on the Beatles novelizations, we’ve recruited Mark Stay to discuss A Hard Day’s Night! The only problem? There’s two novelizations written by the same author, and Mark read the British one. We compare notes.  Check out Mark’s writing: https://markstaywrites.com/ Check out our patreon: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/c/authorizedpod⁠ Follow us on Bluesky: ⁠⁠⁠https://bsky.app/profile...

On a surprise Monday episode, we let Patrick Willems out of the Alan Dean Foster depths to discuss the junior novelization of Toy Story 5. Almost nothing from the book is worth mentioning, but we have lots and lots to say about the movie.  Check out Patrick’s work: https://nebula.tv/patrickhwillems Check out our other episodes with Patrick: The Alan Dean Foster Memoir: https://open.spotify.com/epi...

This week on Authorized, our social media czar Danny Cohen returns alongside fellow returning guest Rabia to discuss Christa Faust’s extremely edgleeord A Nightmare on Elm Street tie-in novel. It’s gross! It’s scary. It’s…hateful? We debate what Christa was doing here. Listen to Showgirls Luck: https://directory.libsyn.com/shows/view/id/a85e132e-1416-45e4-a3a7-16c39ad6fc6a Listen to Danny’s music:...

FIRST AIRED 8/3/2022 As if preparing for this podcast wasn't enough work already, this week we discuss three adaptations of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. First, the novelization by James Rollins. Then, the shorter junior novelization by James Luceno. And briefly the graphic novel by Fabio Laguna, which also rules. But let's be honest, we mostly talk about this movie a...

We’re back to the extremely expansive series of U.N.C.L.E. novels with an absolute banger. Bill Koenig of Spy Command, The Spybrary, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Round Table, and the 007 Files joins to discuss, as he describes it, “The first U.N.C.L.E. book written by a fan”.  Check out all of Bill’s Spy-related musings here: https://spybrary.com/tag/bill-koenig/ Check out the 007 Files: https://podcas...

We watched more The Man From U.N.C.L.E. tv series in prep for this Thursday's episode on the fourth MFU book.

To celebrate a new Spielberg movie, we just had to read one of his books (???). This week, we are joined once again by the She Nerds Out Podcast to discuss the novelization of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, credited to the man himself. Listen to She Nerds Out!: https://www.shenerdsout.com/ Follow us on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/authorizedpod.bsky.social

Have a bonus RPG! The ladies of She Nerds Out podcast return to play a John Goodman RPG set in the Star Wars universe! A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, a motley crew of Republic representatives are sent to the massive power center The Gravity Hammer to defend it against a mobster-like Sith that wants its main power source: the Time Crystal. Listen to She Nerds Out!: https://www.shenerdso...

This week on Authorized, Matt Fisher returns to heed the wheel…again! Hannah talks her adoration of the movie Tombstone as well as her abhorrence of the novelization Tombstone. Can’t win ‘em all!

FIRST AIRED 7/31/2022 Stale takes incoming! There's nothing people are clamoring for more than an Obi Wan Kenobi podcast in August 2022. We were supposed to release one on time, but Overbye's sprawling and personally fulfilling hiking trip derailed it. Anyway, here it is! I think there's a few new disses of this property mixed in with the ones the rest of the internet has already cover...

You know, Burke and Wills. The famous Australian explorers.

Those Baldur’s Gate novelizations got John Goodman thinking about D&D, and he made us a D&D One Shot! Join us on an epic, self-contained adventure of terror and whimsy.

This week on Authorized, we recognize the release of The Mandalorian and Grogu by reading a completely unrelated Star Wars book that we just felt like reading. Mark Stay returns to discuss Lando Calrissian, Star Wars Legends, and the clear influence of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy on this author. There is no way George Lucas even skimmed this book. Check out Mark’s work!: https://markstaywrite...

ORIGINALLY AIRED 7/6/2022 Holy Second Novelization, Batman! Today on Authorized, we cover another, yes ANOTHER!, of the 1997 classic, Batman & Robin. Paxton Holley is back to discuss both the novelization and also whether the Authorized crew will ever allow him to cover a novelization of a different movie. Will Paxton escape the endless loop of Schumacher?! Only time will tell.

In which the wheel is kind. Quentin Tarantino's favorite book?

You were always in the Death Race

Film critic Bilge Ebiri ( NYMag, Vulture) returns to discuss more Costner! Dryland is a myth. Check out Bilge’s work! : https://nymag.com/author/bilge-ebiri/ Listen to our episode on Alan Dean Foster’s memoir: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4nrkmdUXModFSPaKF4PrYR?si=YQF90Bn2TN-x4k8yfOGNzA Subscribe to our patreon: patreon.com/authorizedpod Join our Pregnant Maud Tier and send us to Arizona! : pa...

ORIGINALLY AIRED JULY 20TH, 2022 Never meet your heroes, man. Specifically, never meet your heroes' asexual parent that resides on a Botany Planet where no one is ever allowed to be sad. This week on Authorized, Mark Stay returns to follow E.T. back to his home, The Green Planet.  Unfortunately, E.T.'s like that one girl I went to private high school with who just keeps transferring school...

David Sims of Blank Check and The Atlantic returns for our 200TH NOVELIZATION, Species II!  Listen to Blank Check with Griffin and David: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/blank-check-with-griffin-david/id981330533 Subscribe to our patreon: patreon.com/authorizedpod Join our Pregnant Maud Tier and send us to Arizona! : patreon.com/authorizedpod Join Our Slow Maud Tier and pray us to Arizona: p...

We ranked the video game novelizations, as we are wont to do. Subscribe to our patreon: patreon.com/authorizedpod Join our Pregnant Maud Tier and send us to Arizona! : patreon.com/authorizedpod Join Our Slow Maud Tier and pray us to Arizona: patreon.com/authorizedpod Leave us a five star review novelizing a scene from your favorite movie and we will try to guess what it is on the air! : https://po...

Authorized’s social media czar Danny Cohen joins to defend Child’s Play 3, a film given to us by the almighty Wheel. Subscribe to our patreon: patreon.com/authorizedpod Join our Pregnant Maud Tier and send us to Arizona! : patreon.com/authorizedpod Join Our Slow Maud Tier and pray us to Arizona: patreon.com/authorizedpod Leave us a five star review novelizing a scene from your favorite movie and w...

In preparation for our 200th novelization, Species II, revisit our episode on the original Species!

Video game season goes out on a high note

It's about time some 30 somethings weighed in.