@authorizedpod Coscarelli came by the studio for some Ravager extras that I wasn't charging for, and he brought me his extra copy of the Phantasm novelization in trade - signed it too!
@dukecullen@TiedInFilm The other book lists Australia/New Zealand pricing on the back. Like Terminator and Ghostbusters, there were separate novelizations written for outside of North America.
@TiedInFilm From the Richard J. Anobile obituary in Variety a few months back:
[He] pioneered the use of the movie frame blow-up technique to recreate entire films in book form, which he used on books about “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” “Alien” and “Star Trek.”
@swankmotron@pabl0hidalgo@rianjohnson Coincidentally, @rianjohnson was literally standing and looking through this novelization collection when you tagged him today. He commented on the single page, two-word chapter in the Gremlins book, and that Ghostbusters is surprisingly written in the present tense!
@acardi@TiedInFilm The sticker, apparently! I looked and both versions are 244 pages. I had read that later editions added the 2-episode novelization called The Cylon Death Machine, but this 'Special Edition' doesn't contain it.