Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai (1 Viewer)

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As a kid I went through a movie novelization period

Ive actually read this book, remember not liking it
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……..The Gremlins novelization aimed to answer those questions. They almost had to. In the 1980s especially, novelizations to popular movies did big business. They could be problematic though, say if your film was about little creatures who didn't speak and had no backstory.

A novelization of a film is meant to expand on the limited run time of what we see on a screen. A book is where a writer could go more in depth on a character's backstory, adding scenes and dialogue.

With Gremlins focusing mainly on protagonists and antagonists we know almost nothing about, the author of the Gremlinsnovelization, George Gipe, had to make stuff up, and he went off in the craziest of directions.

The first crazy thing Gipe did was make the gremlins from outer space. The first page of the novel explains a race of aliens, called Mogturmen, who created the Mogwai:


Gipe then explained why most gremlins are bad:


According to Gipe's bonkers Gremlins backstory, most of these created space alien Mogwai go bad due to some sort of mutation. The Mogwai who will be known later as Gizmo is one of the few not to be affected and keeps his "peaceful spirit." It's a crazy idea, but still a fun one for how off the wall Gipe went and was allowed to go.

But why can't the gremlins kill Gizmo? No worries, Gipe had an explanation for that as well in a scene where the Mogwai language is translated to English.


If you thought Gremlins was a strange enough premise as a film, it has nothing on how far the novel is willing to go…….

Why Is Gizmo the Only Good Gremlin?

In the 'Gremlins' films, all of the creatures turn bad except for Gizmo. The original film's novelization gives us a strange reason for why.

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That pretty much makes Gremlins 2 non-cannon