He was a man of many talents.
The American novelist Harold Livingston, co-screenwriter of
Star Trek, the film
(1979) by Robert Wise, died on April 28 in California where he resided.
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Before becoming a novel and screenplay writer, Harold Livingston had a very rich life.
Born in 1924, he joined the US Air Force during World War II as a radio operator and shore navigator.
Passionate about aeronautics, in 1948 he became one of the founders of the Israeli Air Force.
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From the 1950s, he opened a new chapter in his life: writing.
The novelist Livingston writes like an insatiable discoverer of the world and the airspaces.
His first work,
Les Cotes de la Terre
, was released in 1954. This was followed by
Les Détroitiers
(1958),
Le Climacticon
(1960), Ride
a Tiger: A Novel
(1987),
Touching the Sky
(1991),
Dying in Babylon
(1993) , and
No Trophy, No Sword
(1994).
A sky and space specialist
In the mid-1960s, he understood that his pen could also be put to the service of cinema.
Harold Livingston first began to exercise his talents on television soap opera scenarios.
Episode Blue Light
(
The Friendly Enemy
) is one of his first successes.
He will also participate in the writing of some stories of the cult series
Mission: Impossible
.
His greatest accomplishment will remain the script for
Star Trek, the
1979 movie. Robert Wise, the director, needs a man who knows the technologies of the sky and space intimately.
Livingston represents, in his eyes, the perfect intellectual assistant, a sort of modern Jules Verne capable of describing and staging the
Voyager 6
probe , one of the key elements of the plot.
The film will be successful: with 140 million dollars in revenue for a budget of 44 million, Paramount thinks it has found the right answer to the
Star Wars tornado
which shook screens around the world a year earlier.
It will be the first in a film series which now has 13 feature films.
And that's why for many fans of
Star Trek
adventures , Harold Livingston will remain one of the wizards who will have transformed a cult series into a cult franchise.
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Star Trek, the movie
in 1979, by Robert Wise, scenario Harold Livingston