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But even daring to fictionalize some version of that atrocity raises “Andor” above other spinoffs.

From Salon ● Apr. 22, 2025

Here’s a look at shows that fictionalize ways in which brain-infecting viruses, unchecked carbon dioxide and hucksterism could determine whether the world ends with a bang or a whimper.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2023

“I was very excited to pick it apart and figure out what we wanted to fictionalize to push this story forward,” he said.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 4, 2022

Seeking to cover 16 years in little more than two hours, they condense or flat-out fictionalize with a wink.

From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2021

It was a means by which, if not to erase or delete memory, to splice it, to fictionalize it, and to some degree begin again; and yet he judged consciousness to be even less real.

From An Apostate: Nawin of Thais by Sills, Steven (Steven David Justin)

Ellis fictionalized his Buckley School years for the novel, originally released as a serialized audiobook on his podcast.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

His interest in Murashige, meanwhile, a real-life tactician fictionalized here as an under-the-gun leader presented with myriad problems, poses the question: Did Kurosawa make a film about directing films?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

Prosecutors allege that Matar was motivated by a fatwa that Ayatollah Khomeini, then leader of Iran, issued in 1989 following Rushdie's depiction of a fictionalized Prophet Muhammad in his novel "The Satanic Verses."

From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026

Before this, Irving had begun his project of myth-building with a mischievously fictionalized history of New York published under the name Diedrich Knickerbocker—a pseudonym that lives on with the city’s basketball team.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

"You want me to play a fictionalized version of my own ex-boyfriend?"

From "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan

The narrator decides to write a novel fictionalizing the surveyor’s account, shame be damned—“And yet, let them scorn me as they will, strong traits of their nature have intertwined themselves with mine.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026

It also drew a blank when asked for a speech from George Santos, the New York Republican congressman who was caught fictionalizing his past.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 6, 2023

The pair decided that Tembi Locke’s story of her marriage to an Italian man, over his mother’s resistance to the American interloper, and its aftermath would benefit from fictionalizing the characters.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 29, 2022

The Book Review podcast: Alice Elliott Dark discusses her new novel and Katherine Chen talks about fictionalizing Joan of Arc.

From New York Times ● Jul. 10, 2022

And also my conflicted feelings about what I was doing with Hana's story in fictionalizing it, and about mythologizing my father on the page.

From Salon ● Feb. 8, 2022