3: Snake Eater and Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, but his death in 2009 resulted in these projects being handed to Beatless author Satoshi Hase and a new writer named Hitori Nojima (a pen name for Kenji Yano) respectively. Nojima would go on to write Metal Gear Solid: Substance (a two-part alternate novelization of the original Metal Gear Solid and Metal Gear Solid 2), as well as the novelizations of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain and Death Stranding (a game which he helped write the script for). Orphaned novelizations In some cases an otherwise standard novel may be based on an unfilmed screenplay. Ian Fleming's 1961 James Bond novel Thunderball was based on a script he had co-written; in this case his collaborators subsequently sued for plagiarism. Peter O'Donnell's novel Modesty Blaise was a novelization of a refused film script. In this case the creator of the main character had written the script alone. But later on other authors had changed O'Donnell's original script over and over, until merely one single sentence remained from the original. The novel was released a year before the film and unlike the film it had sequels. Frederick Forsyth's 1979 novel The Devil's Alternative was based on an unfilmed script he had written. Cormac McCarthy's 2005 novel No Country for Old Men was adapted from a screenplay the author wrote. This allowed the Coen brothers to stick "almost word for word" faithfully to the book when adapting it back into a screenplay for the acclaimed 2007 film of the same name. Occasionally a novelization is issued even though the film is never made. Gordon Williams wrote the script and novelization for producer Harry Saltzman's abandoned film The Micronauts. Lists of novelizations Novels based on comics List of novels based on comics Novels based on films Novels by franchise Standalone novels Novels based on plays Peter and Wendy (1911), J. M. Barrie The Bat (1926), Stephen Vincent Benét Novels based on television programs Standalone novels Novels by series Novels based on video games List of novels based on video games See also Tie-in Ballantine Books Dell Publishing Target Books Tor Books Alan Dean Foster List of Alien (franchise) novels List of Alien vs. Predator novels List of Disney novelizations List of Doctor Who novelizations List of Nickelodeon novelizations List of Predator (franchise) novels List of Star Trek novels List of Star Wars books List