Authorized Novelizations Podcast

Authorized Novelizations Podcast

A loose coalition of film enthusiasts host a book club about the novelizations of your favorite movies. New episodes every Thursday!

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June 9, 2026 180 mins

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.


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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!

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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 covered. 

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

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May 26, 2026 153 mins

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.

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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.


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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.


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

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May 11, 2026 95 mins

You were always in the Death Race

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Film critic Bilge Ebiri ( NYMag, Vulture) returns to discuss more Costner! Dryland is a myth.


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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 schools over and over. He is immediatel...

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David Sims of Blank Check and The Atlantic returns for our 200TH NOVELIZATION, Species II! 


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April 27, 2026 141 mins

We ranked the video game novelizations, as we are wont to do.


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Authorized’s social media czar Danny Cohen joins to defend Child’s Play 3, a film given to us by the almighty Wheel.


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April 20, 2026 112 mins

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

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Video game season goes out on a high note

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April 13, 2026 118 mins

It's about time some 30 somethings weighed in.


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Writer and Andorks host Alex Wolinetz joins to explain Kingdom Hearts to us. Seems impossible. 


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April 6, 2026 101 mins

We watched another one and it's good

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What with the new film coming out and all.


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