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My Profile Top News Reuters top ten news stories delivered to your inbox each day. Subscribe You are here: Home > News > Entertainment > Article Home Business & Finance News U.S. Politics International Technology Entertainment Film Music People Television Arts Industry Sports Lifestyle Oddly Enough Health Science Special Coverage Video Pictures Your View The Great Debate Blogs Weather Reader Feedback Do More With Reuters RSS Widgets Mobile Podcasts Newsletters Your View Make Reuters My Homepage Partner Services CareerBuilder Affiliate Network Professional Products Support (Customer Zone) Reuters Media Financial Products About Thomson Reuters "Star Trek" veteran boldly saved movie franchise Mon Aug 31, 2009 12:36am EDT Email | Print | Share | Reprints | Single Page [-] Text [+] By Martin A. Grove LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Had Paramount put a number on this summer's successful "Star Trek" reboot it would have been XI, an instant indication of just how valuable the franchise has become. Those 11 installments have grossed more than $1 billion domestically since 1979, including $256 million from the new one. It's a success story that might never have happened had Nicholas Meyer not come on board for 1982's "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" when the series' future was in doubt. Meyer's recollections about directing "Khan" and 1991's "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country" and co-writing 1986's "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" are among the best chapters in "The View From the Bridge: Memories of Star Trek and a Life in Hollywood," just published by Viking. It's an engaging read that's all the better for his insights into directing "The Day After," which aired November 20, 1983, on ABC and vividly dealt with a fictional nuclear attack on Kansas. Meyer also writes about adapting his best-selling novel "The Seven-Per-Cent Solution," for which he was Oscar-nominated in 1977, and making his directorial debut with 1979's "Time After Time." When it was suggested that without him there might never have been a "Star Trek" movie franchise, Meyer replied, "I would like to think so. I am, as I concede in the book, vain enough to want to think so. But I'm not 100% certain." Why not? "How many more scripts were they prepared to lay out money for to try to get a second 'Star Trek' movie if what I had done hadn't worked?" Had Paramount been willing to keep on spending, he added, they'd have eventually come up with something. Meyer's childhood friend Karen Moore, then a Paramount executive, suggested that since he wanted to direct he should meet Harve Bennett, who was producing the second feature spinoff from Gene Roddenberry's "Star Trek" TV series. "That was sort of love at first sight. I didn't really know what 'Star Trek' was. I might not have hung around to find out, I suppose, if I hadn't liked him so much." After they spoke, Meyer saw the connection between "Star Trek" and C.S. Forrester's novels about the English sea captain Horatio Hornblower. Having enjoyed those books as a teenager, Meyer understood "Star Trek" was really just Hornblower in space. When he shared his Hornblower idea with William Shatner, Meyer recalled, Captain Kirk knew exactly what he meant. Shatner (to Meyer): "Oh well, that's what Gene always said it was." Not everything else went as smoothly for him with Shatner, who called the screenplay -- rewritten by Meyer, who didn't get a credit -- a disaster. The trick to resolving Shatner's unhappiness about how the script treated Kirk was that "when you actually broke it up into manageable pieces, what he was asking for was not that difficult or that extraordinary. In fact, it was probably 36 hours or something for me to turn it around." Meyer also writes about Bennett's unhappiness after realizing his mistake in naming himself the film's executive producer and making Robert Sallin its producer. Bennett came from TV, where executive producers run the show and just didn't know it wasn't the same with movies. Bennett asked Meyer what to do about it. Meyer (to Bennett): "You have to stick with what you said, and at the end of the day, if you do the job right, everybody's going to know it's your movie." Continued... View article on single page Share: Del.icio.us Digg Mixx Yahoo! 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