Interview:
Nicholas Meyer,
director,
"Time After Time,"
"Star Trek VI:
The Undiscovered Country"
The Other Worlds Film Festival will give its 2019 Defender of the Universe award to writer/director Nicholas Meyer for his contributions to science fiction. The four-time Saturn Award winner directed the 1979 H.G. Wells-Jack the Ripper cat-and-mouse game Time After Time, which recently spawned a short-lived NBC TV series, and directed Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. He also co-wrote Star Trek VI: The Voyage Home and served as a consulting producer for the first season of Star Trek: Discovery. Nicholas Meyer also directed The Day After, Volunteers, The Deceivers, Company Business, and Vendetta. He also wrote the films Sommersby, The Human Stain, and Elegy as well as the TV miniseries Houdini and Medici: Masters of Florence. Meyer also has written a series of Sherlock Holmes novel told from the perspective of Dr. John Watson, beginning with 1974’s “The Seven-Per-Cent Solution” and continuing with 1976’s “The West End Horror,” 1993’s “The Canary Trainer,” and the recently published “The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols.” Meyer also wrote the screenplay for director Herbert Ross’s 1976 adaptation of The Seven-Per-Cent Solution. The Other Worlds Film Festival will present a 40th anniversary screening of Time After Time on Dec. 6 and will screen Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country on Dec. 8 with director Nicholas Meyer in attendance.
Aired: Nov. 28, 2019 Web sites: https://www.nicholas-meyer.com http://otherworldsfilmfest.com |
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