Ib Melchior

Ib Jørgen Melchior (lahir 17 September 1917) adalah seorang novelis, penulis cerita pendek, produser film, sutradara film, dan penulis skenario film fiksi ilmiah Amerika beranggaran rendah, sebagian besar dirilis oleh American International Pictures. Ia lahir di Kopenhagen, Denmark. Novel Melchior meliputi Nama Kode: Grand Guignol, Eva, Proyek Haigerloch, Perangkat Marcus, Orde Pertempuran: Manusia Serigala Hitler, Agen Tidur, Sandi Batu Nisan, dan Anjing Pengawas Abaddon. Non-fiksinya meliputi buku Quest: Searching for Germany's Nazi Past (dengan rekan penulis Frank Brandenburg) dan Lauritz Melchior: The Golden Years of Bayreuth, yang terakhir merupakan biografi ayahnya, penyanyi opera dan bintang film Lauritz Melchior. Bersama istrinya, arsitek L.A. Cleo Baldon, Ib Melchior menulis buku non-fiksi Refleksi di Kolam Renang: Desain California untuk Berenang dan Tangga & Tangga. Melchior juga menulis Hour of Vengeance, sebuah drama berdasarkan kisah Viking tentang Amled yang juga menginspirasi drama Hamlet karya William Shakespeare. Pada tahun 1982, ia dianugerahi Penghargaan Hamlet untuk penulisan drama terbaik oleh Shakespeare Society of America. Sebagai pembuat film, Melchior menulis dan menyutradarai The Angry Red Planet (1959) dan The Time Travellers (1964). Penghargaannya yang paling terkenal adalah sebagai penulis skenario bersama (bersama dengan John C. Higgins) dari Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964) karya Byron Haskin yang mendapatkan pujian kritis. Dia menulis skenario untuk dua produksi bersama AS-Denmark, Reptilicus (1961) dan Journey to the Seventh Planet (1962), dan menyediakan naskah bahasa Inggris untuk Planet of the Vampires (1965) karya Mario Bava. Untuk televisi, dia menulis episode "The Premonition" untuk musim kedua dari serial asli The Outer Limits. Episode ini disiarkan pada tahun 1965. Cerpen Melchior The Racer diadaptasi menjadi film kultus favorit Paul Bartel, Death Race 2000 (1975), dibintangi oleh David Carradine dan Sylvester Stallone dan diproduksi oleh Roger Corman. Film tersebut kemudian dibuat ulang menjadi Death Race (2008), dibintangi oleh Jason Statham dan Joan Allen, disutradarai oleh Paul W.S. Anderson dan diproduksi oleh Tom Cruise. Dia mengaku sebagai pencipta ide asli yang menjadi dasar serial televisi Irwin Allen, Lost in Space, meskipun dia tidak pernah menerima penghargaan di layar untuk ini. Pada tahun 1960, Melchior membuat garis besar untuk serial yang diberi judul "Space Family Robinson", yang kemudian menjadi buku komik Gold Key. Buku Ed Shifres Lost in Space: The True Story merupakan dokumentasi rinci tentang bagaimana Irwin Allen diduga menjiplak naskah Melchior, dengan dua garis besarnya disajikan berdampingan. Beberapa dekade kemudian, Prelude Pictures mempekerjakan Melchior sebagai konsultan untuk adaptasi film fitur Lost in Space, tetapi kemudian menjual kontraknya ke New Line Cinema, mitra produksi film tersebut. New Line setuju untuk membayar Melchior bonus produksi $75.000 dan $15.000, tetapi menolaknya karena janji kontraknya sebesar dua persen dari pendapatan kotor produser dari film tersebut.

Ib Jørgen Melchior (born September 17, 1917) is a novelist, short story writer, film producer, film director, and screenwriter of low-budget American science fiction movies, most of them released by American International Pictures. He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. Melchior's novels include Code Name: Grand Guignol, Eva, The Haigerloch Project, The Marcus Device, Order of Battle: Hitler's Werewolves, Sleeper Agent, The Tombstone Cipher and The Watchdogs of Abaddon. His non-fiction includes the books Quest: Searching for Germany's Nazi Past (with co-author Frank Brandenburg) and Lauritz Melchior: The Golden Years of Bayreuth, the latter a biography of his father, the opera singer and movie star Lauritz Melchior. With his wife, L.A. architect Cleo Baldon, Ib Melchior wrote the non-fiction books Reflections on the Pool: California Designs for Swimming and Steps & Stairways. Melchior also wrote Hour of Vengeance, a play based on the Viking story of Amled that also inspired William Shakespeare's play Hamlet. In 1982, it was awarded the Hamlet Award for best playwriting by the Shakespeare Society of America. As a filmmaker, Melchior wrote and directed The Angry Red Planet (1959) and The Time Travelers (1964). His most high profile credit was as co-screenwriter (along with John C. Higgins) of Byron Haskin's critically acclaimed Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964). He cowrote the screenplays for two U.S.-Danish coproductions, Reptilicus (1961) and Journey to the Seventh Planet (1962), and provided the English language script for Mario Bava's Planet of the Vampires (1965). For television, he wrote "The Premonition" episode for the second season of the original The Outer Limits series. The episode was broadcast in 1965. Melchior's short story The Racer was adapted as Paul Bartel's cult film favorite, Death Race 2000 (1975), starring David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone and produced by Roger Corman. It was later remade as Death Race (2008), starring Jason Statham and Joan Allen, directed by Paul W.S. Anderson and produced by Tom Cruise. He claims to be the creator of the original idea upon which Irwin Allen based his television series Lost in Space, although he never received onscreen credit for this. In 1960, Melchior had created an outline for a series he called "Space Family Robinson", which later became a Gold Key comic book. Ed Shifres' book Lost in Space: The True Story is a detailed documentation of how Irwin Allen allegedly plagiarized Melchior's script, with the two outlines presented side by side. Decades later, Prelude Pictures hired Melchior as a consultant on its Lost in Space feature film adaptation, but later sold his contract to New Line Cinema, its production partner on the film. New Line agreed to pay Melchior a $75,000 production bonus and $15,000, but refused him his contractually promised two percent of the producer's gross receipts from the film.