{"id":3756,"date":"2016-05-09T10:07:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T15:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/?p=3756"},"modified":"2023-08-06T11:30:42","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T16:30:42","slug":"an-evening-with-filmmaker-nicholas-meyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/2016\/05\/09\/an-evening-with-filmmaker-nicholas-meyer\/","title":{"rendered":"An Evening with Filmmaker Nicholas Meyer"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\"Meyer-Nimoy-600px\"<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Photo credit: Nicholas Meyer on set with Leonard Nimoy during the shooting of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. The photo is archived in the University of Iowa Libraries’ Special Collections as part of a collection donated by Nicholas Meyer.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UI Libraries is pleased to host Nicholas Meyer, who will make an appearance as a guest speaker in conjunction with the Main Library Gallery exhibition 50 Years of Star Trek<\/a><\/i><\/b>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The event is free and open to the public. RSVPs are appreciated. http:\/\/bit.ly\/UI-LIB-Meyer<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meyer, who is an alumnus of the University of Iowa, directed the movie Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan<\/a> (1982)<\/b><\/i> and contributed to the shooting script for that film (uncredited). He wrote portions of the screenplay for Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home<\/a> (1986)<\/b><\/i> and went on to direct Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country<\/a> (1991)<\/b><\/i>, for which he also co-wrote the screenplay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A long-time Sherlockian, Meyer’s writing prowess led to a best-selling novel, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution: Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D. <\/i> <\/b>The novel, crafted by Meyer in a style faithful to the original series, follows Holmes through cocaine addiction and recovery.  Meyer <\/b>received an Oscar nomination for his screenplay of the novel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meyer will deliver a brief talk, titled The Last Man To Understand Anything<\/b>.<\/i> There will be a Q&A session afterward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photo credit: Nicholas Meyer on set with Leonard Nimoy during the shooting of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. The photo is archived in the University of Iowa Libraries’ Special Collections as part of a collection donated by Nicholas Meyer. The UI Libraries is pleased to host Nicholas Meyer, who will make an appearance asContinue reading “An Evening with Filmmaker Nicholas Meyer”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1],"tags":[],"syndication":[33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3756"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5870,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3756\/revisions\/5870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3756"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=3756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}