No Novel or Graphic Novel for Beyond
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Yeah, I understand the relative lack of other merchandise, but lack of a novelization seems odd. Maybe the Into Darkness one didn't sell that well.
Amazon shows a book for the film due out October 18
https://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Be...d=1468853077&sr=8-3&keywords=star+trek+beyond
From the publisher I would guess a graphic novel or comic, but it will be a hardcover.
https://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Be...d=1468853077&sr=8-3&keywords=star+trek+beyond
From the publisher I would guess a graphic novel or comic, but it will be a hardcover.
Definitely not. Titan doesn't have the license to do Trek comics, that's IDW, who will be launching a post-Beyond comic series in the fall.
Titan has in the past published such Trek books as The First 150 Years of the Federation and The Autobiography of James Kirk. They also publish the official Star Trek Magazine, so this book could be a behind the scenes book.
Although to be fair, I think the real reason IDW's adaptation of Trek XI didn't sell was that it came out a whole year after the movie. But then they're adaptation of TWOK was a best seller, and that came 25 years after the movie's release, so who the hell knows?
Ironically, the adaptation of TWOK came out while Star Trek XI was still in theatres, but it may have sold well due to its nostalgia factor and that it appealed to completionists (it was at the time, the only Star Trek movie not to have an adaptation). One idea about the lack of movie adaptations these days is that their popularity has diminished since the easy accessibility of the actual movies in home video & online streaming, and they've become a niche draw within an already niche market.
IDW released the Manifest Destiny miniseries that's set shortly before Beyond. It's probably the closest to an official tie-in that we'll get.
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When it comes to comics, I prefer the "related to" titles rather than adaptations anyway. A comic just doesn't give me anything the movie couldn't. The art can be nice sure, but the storytelling has to be extremely truncated. At least with novelizations the story is expanded rather than cut short.
Except Manifest Destiny isn't related to Beyond at all. It's really just another story in the Ongoing series that for some reason got singled out as its own miniseries rather than just be a story arc in the Ongoing series.
MD could have been done in place of an official tie-in. A conflict story with the Klingons was something that was set up perfectly in ID, and even mentioned by Lindelof as a possible direction for the third film. It's reasonable to assume it was relegated it to a comic arc, since Beyond was handled by a different creative team.
Mike Johnson, who handles ST Ongoing, recently theorized that the damage sustained to the Enterprise by the Klingons in MD would have been cause for a slight refit, explaining the swept back nacelles, etc that are displayed in Beyond.
Johnson also confirmed on Twitter that MD immediately precedes Beyond chronologically.
Mike Johnson, who handles ST Ongoing, recently theorized that the damage sustained to the Enterprise by the Klingons in MD would have been cause for a slight refit, explaining the swept back nacelles, etc that are displayed in Beyond.
Johnson also confirmed on Twitter that MD immediately precedes Beyond chronologically.
The Klingon conflict set up in STID was already handled in the Ongoing series, in The Khitomer Conflict story arc in 2013, just a few months after STID's release. Since Orci was still in a position of authority at the time and was supervising the comics, it stands to reason that if there were any plans to use Klingons in the third movie, they wouldn't have done this storyline.
Mike Johnson's Tweets are not canon.
Didn't TOS move novels come out before the movies, or at least at the same time?
I'm well aware of the Khitomer arc.
Neither are comics. However, since Mike Johnson is in a "position of authority", as he handles the comics, most would value his opinion on the matter more than yours.
Speaking in general, and not about STAR TREK or Pocket Books in particular, it used to be that you released a movie novelization before the movie opened in order to capitalize on all the advance hype and publicity. Nowadays, the studios often prefer that the books come out after the movies to avoid spoilers.
I blame the internet, and the fact that spoilers are practically a cottage industry these days. Can't really blame the studios for wanting to keep the plots of their $150 million dollar movies under wraps until the movies open, even if it makes novelizations a bit more problematic.
One recent exception: the GHOSTBUSTERS novelization by Nancy Holder, which I believe did go on sale before the movie opened.
I thought that was because Ongoing was canceled. It ends with #60. I presume they'll just release miniseries from now on, of which MD was the first. I wish they were still supposed to be considered canonical. It was a nice way to fill the enormous amount of time between sequels.
They never were canon. When Orci was involved he just made sure they didn't cover material that was planned for the movies, and in return they got to work some stuff in before the movies got to it, like Cupcake's name being Hendorf.
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