So it took me a long time, and it wasn’t until my agent, In New York, sent me this book by her client, Professor Steven Zipperstein, about the Protocols, that the whole thing started to come together for meĭid this seem like the kind of mystery that Doyle would have been interested in? Did it seem like a natural fit to you? I am a slow thinker if I am talking fast, I’m playing a tape. This is now about twelve years ago, when I started thinking about Holmes and the Protocols. Then, I got hold of the Will Eisner comic. You learn about a lot of historical things.Īt some point, I learned about the Procotols of the Elders of Zion, and I really don’t remember when that was, because it was years and years ago, when I first heard about these documents. In four pages, or whatever it was, that Doyle has summed up these events, my 11-and-a-half-year-old self was transfixed. The second thing which Sherlock Holmes introduced me to was in The Sign of the Four: The Indian Mutiny, 1857. In 1971, when I was a kid and driving across country, I had to go to Utah. So, the first real historical thing that Sherlock Holmes introduced me to, other than his own world, was Mormons. Not knowing anything else to do, I just kept reading. This 11-year-old assumed that the printers had glued the wrong two stories together, that it was a book binder’s mistake. You’re reading along and you’re having a great time, and you turn the page, and are in Utah, with a whole different cast of characters. Imagine you’re 11 years old, and you’re reading about Victorian London and the word “Rache” written on the wall, which the cops think is the beginning of “Rachel”. I’ll give you an example: A Study in Scarlet, which is the first Holmes story. When my dad gave me the complete Holmes stories, which I’m guessing was age 11, I was introduced to several historical worlds. The idea of Sherlock Holmes and the Protocols was one I’d been thinking about for a very long time. Why did you decide to pit Sherlock Holmes against the Protocols of the Elders of Zion? Nicholas Meyer very kindly agreed to talk to The Holocaust Reader about The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols, which is out in paperback in November 2020. Meyer recounts the making of all of these in his excellent 2009 autobiography The View from the Bridge, which is soon to be released as an audiobook. He has also written or directed a number of other films and TV shows, including the most-watched TV movie in American history, the nuclear apocalypse drama The Day After (1983), and the time travel drama Time After Time (1979), in which HG Wells travels to 1970s San Francisco in pursuit of Jack the Ripper. He was invited back to write part of the script for Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986), and was once again in the director’s chair for the last of the original crew’s adventures, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991). In 1982, he wrote and directed the best-loved of the cinematic Star Trek adventures, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (skip straight to the end of the below interview to find out what connects that film with the Holocaust). ![]() Meyer is perhaps most famous for his role in the history of Star Trek. Meyer’s fifth Holmes adventure, The Return of the Pharaoh, will be published in hardback in late 2021. Three more Holmes novels followed, of which the latest, The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols, was published in 2019 and sees Holmes and Watson on the trail of the authors of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the infamous real-life conspiracy theory text which fabricated a plot by Jews around the world to control international politics. In 1974, his first novel, a Sherlock Holmes adventure entitled The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, spent months on the New York Times bestseller list. Nicholas Meyer was born and raised in New York, but made a career in Hollywood, as a director, screenwriter and novelist.
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