Jim wrote:
"Collins's ROAD TO PERDITION, which adapts the screenplay
which was, in turn, an adaptation of Collins's original comic
book script for the graphic novel of the same name; . .
."
And wasn't the graphic novel, in turn, inspired by the Lone
Wolf and Cub manga which were also adapted into movies? Then
again, I've always thought that was overstated. Sure, they
both feature assassins on the road with their sons (although
the Cub was a whole lot younger), but they go in pretty
different directions from there
"If you mean original novels using characters created for
film or TV
(Lawrence Block refers to these as "tie-ins" to distinguish
them from novels that are directly adapted from scripts), . .
."
I'm surprised you don't mention Block's "tie-in." Foul Play
Press reprinted it under his name as You Could Call It
Murder, but wasn't it first published with a different title
and as by the TV detective, Robert Markham?
Mark
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