Broken Arrow is a movie novelization written by Jeff Rovin in 1995 and based on the movie of the same name, directed by John Woo in 1996. The movie features John Travolta, Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis, Delroy Lindo, Bob Gunton, Frank Whaley, and others.
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Storyline
Major Vic Deak Deakins and Captain Riley Hale, pilots in the United States Air Force (USAF), are assigned to a secret exercise flying a stealth bomber with two B83 nuclear bombs over the western United States. Rhodes tries to disable the warhead but is killed by the only other search team survivor, Master Sergeant Kelly, who is serving as a mole for Deakins.
Movie vs Book
Year
1996
Minutes
108
Movie Rate
6.10
Source: IMDb
Year
1995
Pages
263
Book Rate
6.30
S: Goodreads
Book
Broken Arrow
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Novelizations aren’t just a transcription of the film story. They also add details and backstory to the plot in a literary way.
“The biggest challenge of adapting the book was trying to make the inner lives of the characters legible through their outward actions.”
SALLY ROONEY (Writer)
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