33 Facts About Nicholas Meyer

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Nicholas Meyer was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the film The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, where he adapted his own novel into a screenplay.

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Nicholas Meyer has been nominated for a Satellite Award, three Emmy Awards, and has won four Saturn Awards.

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Nicholas Meyer appeared as himself during the 2017 On Cinema spinoff series The Trial, during which he testified about Star Trek and San Francisco.

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Nicholas Meyer was born in New York City, New York, to a Jewish family.

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Nicholas Meyer is the son of Bernard Constant Meyer, a Manhattan psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, and his first wife, concert pianist Elly .

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Nicholas Meyer graduated from the University of Iowa with a degree in theater and filmmaking, and wrote film reviews for the campus newspaper.

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Nicholas Meyer first gained public attention for his best-selling 1974 Sherlock Holmes novel The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, a story of Holmes confronting his cocaine addiction with the help of Sigmund Freud.

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Nicholas Meyer followed this with four additional Holmes novels: The West End Horror, The Canary Trainer, The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols, and The Return of the Pharaoh .

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Nicholas Meyer has said that The Adventures of the Peculiar Protocols was inspired by Steven Zipperstein's Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History.

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Intrigued by the first part of college friend Karl Alexander's then-incomplete novel Time After Time, Nicholas Meyer optioned the book and adapted it into a screenplay.

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Nicholas Meyer consented to sell the script only if he were attached as director.

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Nicholas Meyer later directed the 1983 television film The Day After, starring Jason Robards, JoBeth Williams, John Cullum, Bibi Besch, John Lithgow and Steve Guttenberg, which depicted the ramifications of a nuclear attack on the United States.

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Nicholas Meyer had originally decided not to do any television work, but changed his mind upon reading the script by Edward Hume.

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Nicholas Meyer resumed directing theatrical films with the 1985 comedy Volunteers, starring Tom Hanks and John Candy.

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In 1986 Nicholas Meyer helped James Dearden write the screenplay for Fatal Attraction, which was based on a short movie Dearden made in 1980 called Diversion.

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Nicholas Meyer's next directing job was the 1988 Merchant Ivory produced drama The Deceivers, with Pierce Brosnan as British officer William Savage.

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Nicholas Meyer later wrote and directed the 1991 spy comedy Company Business, starring Gene Hackman and Mikhail Baryshnikov as aging American and Russian secret agents.

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In 1991, Nicholas Meyer returned to the world of Star Trek, co-writing and directing Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, which became a swan song for the original cast.

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Nicholas Meyer performed uncredited rewrites on an early draft of the screenplay of the 1997 James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies.

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20.

Nicholas Meyer adapted the Philip Roth novel The Human Stain into the 2003 film of the same name.

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21.

Nicholas Meyer's script was nominated for a WGA award and the series was nominated for seven Emmys.

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The draft had to be completed so quickly that Nicholas Meyer agreed to forgo negotiating a contract or credit for his writing to begin work on the script immediately.

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23.

Nicholas Meyer made stylistic alterations in his direction, such as adding more of a naval appearance to the production.

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Nicholas Meyer has said that one of the most enjoyable aspects of working on this film was getting the chance to re-use elements which he had been forced to discard from his earlier film, Time After Time.

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Nicholas Meyer worked for the Star Trek franchise again for the sixth film in the series, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country .

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Nicholas Meyer developed the story with Leonard Nimoy and co-wrote the screenplay with long-time friend and assistant Denny Flinn.

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Nicholas Meyer directed the picture, which was the final film to feature the entire classic Star Trek cast.

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In February 2016 it was announced that Nicholas Meyer would be returning to Star Trek by joining the writing team for CBS's new TV series Star Trek: Discovery.

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In November 2018, Nicholas Meyer announced in an online interview that he was not invited back for Discoverys second season.

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30.

Nicholas Meyer disclosed that he could not identify his precise contributions, as television is such a collaborative medium.

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31.

In 2020, Nicholas Meyer wrote a detailed proposal with his producing partner Steven-Charles Jaffe for a new Star Trek project, including a treatment and illustrations.

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Nicholas Meyer said the project was not connected to any of the franchise's previous films and was set in a gap in the Star Trek timeline where an original story could be told with new characters.

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Nicholas Meyer described the project as a feature film, but said it could be a television series or a combination of television and film.

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