Nicholas Meyer

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Nicholas Meyer (2008)

Nicholas Meyer (born December 24, 1945 in New York City ) is an American writer , screenwriter and director .

Life

Before his career, he studied at the University of Iowa , where he graduated in 1968.

In 1974 Meyer published his debut novel The Seven-Per-Cent Solution , a Sherlock Holmes adaptation that made it into the bestseller lists of Publishers Weekly and The New York Times . His screenplay for the television film The Night That Panicked America , which thematized Orson Welles ' radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds from 1938 and its effects, was nominated for an Emmy Award. For the film version of his novel The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (dt .: No coke for Sherlock Holmes ) in 1976 he wrote the script, which at the Academy Awards 1977 as Best Adapted Screenplay nomination.

In 1979 Meyer made his debut as a film director with Flucht in die Zukunft (OT: Time after Time ). The film adaptation of his own script combines motifs from HG Wells The Time Machine with the search for Jack the Ripper . In 1981 film producer Harve Bennett Meyer hired to bring the stalled preparations for the sequel to Star Trek: The Movie to an end. Meyer helped finalize the script and directed it, so Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan premiered on June 4, 1982.

1983 Meyer made the acclaimed TV movie The Day After - The Day After ( The Day After ) again as a director attracted attention. The realistic representation of a nuclear war reached a record 100 million television viewers and fueled discussions about the nuclear threat of the Cold War , which had peaked in the early 1980s.

In 1985 Meyer returned to the Star Trek franchise and worked on the script for Star Trek IV: Back to the Present , which was filmed under the direction of Leonard Nimoy . For the sixth part of the film series, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Land , Meyer again took over the direction in addition to working on the script.

In February 2016 it was announced that Meyer would be involved in the creation of the scripts for the new Star Trek series Star Trek: Discovery . He was no longer involved in the second season.

Awards

as a writer
  • 1975 CWA Gold Dagger for The Seven Per Cent Solution (German: No coke for Sherlock Holmes . Marion von Schröder, Düsseldorf 1976)
as a director

Books (selection)

  • with Barry Jay Kaplan: Black Orchid . The Dial Press, New York City, USA 1977.
    • German by Rainer Bosch: Black orchid , Roman. As Knaur Taschenbuch, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-426-00647-2 .
  • The Seven-per-cent-Solution , 1974 ( No coke for Sherlock Holmes , 1976; Sherlock Holmes and the Sigmund Freud case , 1995, ISBN 3-404-13648-9 )
  • The Canary Trainer , 1993 ( Sherlock Holmes and the Phantom of the Opera , 1994, ISBN 3-404-13596-2 )
  • The West-End Horror , 1976 ( The Man of Terror , 1985; Sherlock Holmes and the Theatrical Murders , 1995, ISBN 3-404-13703-5 )

Filmography (selection)

As a director

As a screenwriter

Web links

Commons : Nicholas Meyer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adult New York Times Best Seller Lists for 1974 . Retrieved December 23, 2012.
  2. ^ Adult New York Times Best Seller Lists for 1975 . Retrieved December 23, 2012.
  3. ↑ JM Dillard : Star Trek: "Where No Man Has Gone Before" - A History in Pictures . Pocket Books , 1994, ISBN 0-671-51149-1 .
  4. ↑ Hank Stuever: Yes, 'The Day After' really was the profound TV moment 'The Americans' makes it out to be . In: Washington Post - Blogs , May 12, 2016. Retrieved May 21, 2019. 
  5. ↑ Annemarie Havran: New 'Star Trek' series with old friends: 'Star Trek' veteran Nicholas Meyer on board In: February 27, 2016.
  6. ↑ Sebastian Lorenz: Nicholas Meyer: The new Star Trek series goes other ways In: robots-and-dragons.de, March 2, 2016.
  7. ↑ 'Star Trek: Discovery': Nicholas Meyer Not Invited Back for Season 2 . Comicbook.com. Retrieved November 26, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Nicholas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer, screenwriter, and director
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City