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Nicholas Meyer (born December 24, 1945) is an American screenwriter, producer, author and director, most known for his best-selling novel ''The Seven-Per-Cent Solution'', and for directing the films ''Time After Time'', two of the ''Star Trek'' feature film series, and the 1983 television movie ''The Day After''. For adapting a screenplay from his own novel for ''The Seven-Per-Cent Solution'' (1976), Meyer was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He has also been nominated for a Satellite Award, three Emmy Awards, and has won four Saturn Awards. ==Early life, education and career== Meyer was born in New York City, New York, to a Jewish family. He is the son of Elly (Kassman), a concert pianist, and Bernard Constant Meyer, a Manhattan psychoanalyst.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/66741/celebrity-jews121/ )〕〔http://www.filmreference.com/film/34/Nicholas-Meyer.html〕 Meyer graduated from the University of Iowa with a degree in theater and filmmaking, and also wrote film reviews for the campus newspaper. 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. Meyer followed this with two additional Holmes novels: ''The West End Horror'' (1976), and then ''The Canary Trainer'' (1993). ''The Seven-Per-Cent Solution'' was later adapted as a 1976 film of the same name, for which Meyer wrote the screenplay. The film was directed by Herbert Ross and starred Nicol Williamson, Robert Duvall, Alan Arkin and Laurence Olivier. For his work adapting the novel, Meyer was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 49th Academy Awards. Intrigued by the first part of college friend Karl Alexander's then-incomplete novel ''Time After Time'', Meyer optioned the book and adapted it into a screenplay. He consented to sell the script only if he were attached as director. The deal was optioned by Warner Bros., and the film became Meyer's directorial debut. Meyer freely allowed Alexander to borrow from the screenplay. The latter published his novel at about the same time the movie was released. ''Time After Time'' (1979) starred Malcolm McDowell, Mary Steenburgen and David Warner. It was a success with both critical reception and in box office returns. At the behest of then Paramount executive Karen Moore, Meyer was hired to direct ''Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan''. 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. Meyer had originally decided not to do any television work, but changed his mind upon reading the script by Edward Hume. For his work on ''The Day After'', Meyer was nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Director. Afterward, he also directed "The Pied Piper of Hamelin", a 1985 episode of the television series ''Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre''. He resumed directing theatrical films with the 1985 comedy ''Volunteers'', starring Tom Hanks and John Candy. After directing ''Volunteers'', Meyer returned to working on ''Star Trek'', co-writing the screenplay for ''Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home'' (1986) with producer Harve Bennett. Meyer's next directing job was the 1988 Merchant Ivory produced drama ''The Deceivers'', with Pierce Brosnan as British officer William Savage. Meyer later wrote and directed the 1991 spy comedy ''Company Business'', starring Gene Hackman and Mikhail Baryshnikov as aging American and Russian secret agents. In 1991, Meyer once again 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. Meyer performed uncredited rewrites on an early draft of the screenplay of the 1997 James Bond film ''Tomorrow Never Dies''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Latest Bond Production Shaken, Stirred ) Online copy of news article originally published in ''Variety'' (8–15 December 1996).〕 Meyer adapted the Philip Roth novel ''The Human Stain'' into the 2003 film of the same name. In 2006, he teamed with Martin Scorsese to write the screenplay for Scorsese's adaptation of Edmund Morris's Pulitzer Prize winning biography of Theodore Roosevelt, ''The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt''. The story traces Roosevelt's early life. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nicholas Meyer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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