September 27, 2024
Time After Time: Nicholas Meyer on His First Film
Nicholas Meyer is perhaps one of the most influential living American writers. To prove it all you have to do is say two things: He saved Star Trek and he made Sherlock Holmes popular again. With his incisive work as the director of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan in 1982, and his break-out Holmes novel hit The Seven-Per-Cent in 1974, Meyer made a name for himself as the kind of writer who geeks out with characters and historical situations that interest him, and weaves his deep knowledge of adjacent interests to make something entirely new. “These things sort of occur to me,” Meyer tells Den of Geek. “I bump into them. I’m a rather intuitive and non-analytic thinker. I’ll stumble across something that either relates to the books I’ve already written, or something I read that sort of fits or could fit into the chronology, and I go from there.”
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