Tag: Nicholas Meyer

The Day After Script

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Year:1983
Director:Nicholas Meyer
Written by:Edward Hume (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:In the mid-1980s, the U.S. is poised on the brink of nuclear war. This shadow looms over the residents of a small town in Kansas as they continue their daily lives. Dr. Russell Oakes maintains his busy schedule at the hospital, Denise Dahlberg prepares for her upcoming wedding, and Stephen Klein is deep in his graduate studies. When the unthinkable happens and the bombs come down, the town's residents are thrust into the horrors of nuclear winter.
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Elegy Script

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Year:2008
Director:Isabel Coixet
Written by:Nicholas Meyer (Screenplay), Philip Roth (Novel)

Script Synopsis:Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life -- which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood" -- thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.
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The Prince Of Egypt Script

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Year:1998
Director:Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner, Simon Wells
Written by:Philip LaZebnik (Screenplay), Nicholas Meyer (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:This is the extraordinary tale of two brothers named Moses and Ramses, one born of royal blood, and one an orphan with a secret past. Growing up the best of friends, they share a strong bond of free-spirited youth and good-natured rivalry. But the truth will ultimately set them at odds, as one becomes the ruler of the most powerful empire on earth, and the other the chosen leader of his people! Their final confrontation will forever change their lives and the world.
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The Seven-Per-Cent Solution Script

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Year:1976
Director:Herbert Ross
Written by:Arthur Conan Doyle (Characters), Nicholas Meyer (Novel)

Script Synopsis:Concerned about his friend's cocaine use, Dr. Watson tricks Sherlock Holmes into travelling to Vienna, where Holmes enters the care of Sigmund Freud. Freud attemts to solve the mysteries of Holmes' subconscious, while Holmes devotes himself to solving a mystery involving the kidnapping of Lola Deveraux.
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution Script Resources:

  • The Seven-Per-Cent Solution Script PDF - NO DRAFT DATE at Script City ($)
  • The Seven-Per-Cent Solution Script PDF at Script Fly ($)
  • The Seven-Per-Cent Solution Transcript at scripts.com

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  • The Seven-Per-Cent Solution ( tt0075194 ) at IMDb
  • The Seven-Per-Cent Solution ( 29578 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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Time After Time Script

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Year:1979
Director:Nicholas Meyer
Written by:Nicholas Meyer (Screenplay), Karl Alexander (Screenstory), Steve Hayes (Screenstory)

Script Synopsis:The Wildest Chase Of The Century! London 1893 is home to a killer with a macabre nickname... and also to a visionary genius who would write The Time Machine. But what if H.G. Wells' invention wasn't fiction? And what if Jack the Ripper escaped capture fleeing his own time to take refuge in ours - with Wells himself in pursuit?
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Volunteers Script

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Year:1985
Director:Nicholas Meyer
Written by:Keith Critchlow (Story), Ken Levine (Screenplay), David Isaacs (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Lawrence is a rich kid with a bad accent and a large debt. After his father refuses to help him out, Lawrence escapes his angry debtors by jumping on a Peace Corp flight to Southeast Asia, where he is assigned to build a bridge for the local villagers with American-As-Apple-Pie WSU Grad Tom Tuttle and the beautiful and down-to earth Beth Wexler.
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Company Business Script

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Year:1991
Director:Nicholas Meyer
Written by:Nicholas Meyer (Writer)

Script Synopsis:An aging agent is called back by "the Company" to run a hostage trade of a Soviet spy for an American agent.
Company Business Script Resources:

  • Company Business Script PDF at Script Fly ($)
  • Company Business Script PDF - 9/25/90 SHOOTING at Script City ($)

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Sommersby Script

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Year:1993
Director:Jon Amiel
Written by:Sarah Kernochan (Screenplay), Nicholas Meyer (Author), Anthony Shaffer (Author)

Script Synopsis:Set in the south of the United States just after the Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm without her husband Jack, believed killed in the Civil War. By all accounts, Jack Sommersby was not a pleasant man, thus when he returns, Laurel has mixed emotions. It appears that Jack has changed a great deal, leading some people to believe that this is not actually Jack but an imposter. Laurel herself is unsure, but willing to take the man into her home, and perhaps later into her heart...
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The Human Stain

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Year:2003
Director:Robert Benton
Written by:Nicholas Meyer (Screenplay), Philip Roth (Novel)

Script Synopsis:Coleman Silk is a worldly and admired professor who loses his job after unwittingly making a racial slur. To clear his name, Silk writes a book about the events with his friend and colleague Nathan Zuckerman, who in the process discovers a dark secret Silk has hidden his whole life. All the while, Silk engages in an affair with Faunia Farley, a younger woman whose tormented past threatens to unravel the layers of deception Silk has constructed.
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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

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Year:1982
Director:Nicholas Meyer
Written by:Jack B. Sowards (Screenplay), Nicholas Meyer (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Admiral James T. Kirk is feeling old; the prospect of accompanying his old ship the Enterprise on a two week cadet cruise is not making him feel any younger. But the training cruise becomes a life or death struggle when Khan escapes from years of exile and captures the power of creation itself.
Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan Script Resources:

  • Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan Script PDF at Script Slug
  • Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan Script PDF at The Script Savant
  • Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan Script - 4th Draft at The Daily Script
  • Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan Script at Sci-Fi Scripts
  • Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan Script at Sci-Fi Scripts
  • Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan Script - 1982-03 Draft at IMSDb
  • Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan Script - Revised Final Draft 3/24/82 at The Daily Script
  • Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan Script PDF - [Undated] at Script Fly ($)
  • Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan Script PDF - [Rev Final 1982-01-18] at Script Fly ($)

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  • Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan ( tt0084726 ) at IMDb
  • Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan ( 154 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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