Alan Dean Foster

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Alan Dean Foster (born November 18, 1946) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer.

A prolific author (and in some cases, ghostwriter) of movie novelizations, Foster wrote both the novelization of the 2007 Transformers movie and the prequel novel Transformers: Ghosts of Yesterday. The latter was originally to be written by David Cian, but Cian's version didn't meet Paramount Pictures's and Hasbro's expectations. Therefore, Foster was hired to rewrite Cian's 62,000 word manuscript.

In an interview, Foster admitted that he didn't have any knowledge about the Transformers other than being "advertised children's toys" prior to being hired to write the movie-related novels, and therefore simply based the characters in his books on their portrayal in the screenplay for the movie, without undertaking any additional research.

Evidently Paramount/Hasbro were happy with Foster's work, as he wrote a prequel to Revenge of the Fallen entitled The Veiled Threat.

On his website's blog, he noted that he took pains to make sure it did not clash with IDW Publishing's The Reign of Starscream comic. However, a month later he reported that he had been asked to make some extensive revisions and that afterwards he would be writing Revenge's novelisation. In February 2009, Foster reported he had seen (and greatly enjoyed) Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman's critically-acclaimed Star Trek and was very quickly writing the novelisation.

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External links

• Alan Dean Foster at Wikipedia
• Foster's official site
• Interview with Foster at Seibertron.com