Nicholas Meyer To Write Washington Bio That's George, not Denzel, by the way Source: Variety
How’s this for spooky? So there was Empire just a few hours ago, watching Time After Time (the movie in which H.G. Wells and Jack The Ripper are transported to 1979 via a time machine) and wondering, after it had finished, what its director, Nicholas Meyer, was up to these days.
And then – would you Adam and Eve it – we flicked on our magical internet movie news updatery widget thing, and after much whirring and churning and spitting and smoking and belching flames, we found the following:
Meyer has signed on to write a biopic of George Washington, the second President of the United States. OK, then, unlike George, we can tell a lie – he was the very first President.
The currently-untitled Washington biopic, which we gather is particularly timely because of some election thing going on in the States at the moment, will be produced by Paul Allen’s Vulcan Prods.
Now, that name has special significance to Meyer, because he directed two of the finest Star Trek movies, The Wrath Of Khan (no. 2) and The Undiscovered Country (no. 6). So perhaps it’s fate that he ended up writing a movie for a company that reminds him of Mr. Spock.
In fact, Meyer is undergoing something of a renaissance, career-wise – he wrote the screenplay for the acclaimed movie, Elegy, which came out in the States recently. And now this – not bad for a 62 year-old. Who says Hollywood is no country for old men?
I had changed the headline last night - or yesterday morning for you London-based spuds, but something went wrong, and I've only just noticed the change didn't take. Should be fixed now. Meyer's only writing this. ... Read More
they should have hired him as a consultant or exec producer or whatever for the new trek film...having his name in the credits wouldve been a big boost for fans... ... Read More
Meyer seems to be the scriptwriter of choice for all things Philip Roth, but it's good to see him back in the director's chair. I just hope this will turn out better than that utter dreck espionage movie he made in the early 90's (starring Gene Hackman and that Russian former ballet bloke) - that film nearly bored me to death, even though I seem to remember it featuring production design by Ken Adam, which is usually good enough a reason to love any movie. ... Read More
its good to see him back wrath of khan and the undiscovered country where 2 of the finist star trek movies, he also worte most of star trek 4, all we need is a william shatner cameo, and everyone will be happy :) ... Read More
