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Time After Time is a 1979 American science fiction film written and directed by Nicholas Meyer and starring Malcolm McDowell, David Warner, and Mary Steenburgen.Filmed in Panavision, it was the directing debut of Meyer, whose screenplay is based on the premise from Karl Alexander's novel Time After Time (which was unfinished at the time) and a story by Alexander and Steve Hayes.
Time After Time is a 1979 science fiction novel by American writer Karl Alexander. Its plot speculates what might have happened if H. G. Wells had built a real time machine to travel to the 1970s in search of Jack the Ripper .
Time After Time (Alexander novel), a 1979 science fiction novel involving H. G. Wells by Karl Alexander; Time After Time (Appel novel), a 1985 time travel novel by Allen Appel
Time After Time is an American period drama/science fiction television series that aired on ABC from March 5 to March 26, 2017. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The series, developed by Kevin Williamson , is based on the 1979 novel of the same name by Karl Alexander [ 3 ] and was commissioned on May 12, 2016. [ 4 ]
In Time After Time, H.G. Wells invents a time machine and shows it to some friends in a manner similar to the first part of the novella. He does not know that one of his friends is Jack The Ripper. The Ripper, fleeing police, escapes to the future (1979), but without a key which prevents the machine from remaining in the future.
The writing began with the title, which Lauper had seen in TV Guide, referring to the 1979 film Time After Time. [8] "Time After Time" received positive reviews from music critics, with many commending it for being a solid and memorable love song.
The screenplay's "time travel arrival day" of November 5 had first appeared in 1979's Time After Time; and was also the "time travel arrival day" in a later film, 1985's Back to the Future. As another plot clue, Claire's last name, Cygne, is the vocative singular form of "cygnus," Latin for "swan."
There were relatively few numbered sequels in the 1970s (except in the last few years of the decade), but a fair number of franchise movies, such as eleven "official" James Bond movies plus one semi-unofficial Bond movie released by 1979.