Board Thread:Naruto News/@comment-26937472-20151130084303/@comment-26424744-20151203150903

Seelentau wrote: The movie was stated to be canon. The novel is an adaption of the movie with extra scenes, these are not canon, because they're not in the movie.

The same way anime-only scenes are not canon because they're not in the manga.

The difference is that the Anime Writers have no hand in writing the canon material. Kodachi had a major hand in writing the canon Boruto Movie script with Kishimoto.

Elveonora wrote: @Seel, you sure the novelizations of the canonical movies are not canon? I mean, the expanded scenes and stuff make sense, fit and all. I would say it's the other way around, the novel should be based on full script, while the movie's scenes were cut and changed before release.

That's pretty much how Cacatua explained it