Roberto Orci

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Roberto Gaston Orci (born July 20, 1973) is a Mexican-American film and television screenwriter and producer.

He began his longtime collaboration with Alex Kurtzman while at school in California.

Together they have been employed on television series such as Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess.

In 2008, together with J. J. Abrams, they created Fringe.

In 2013, they created Sleepy Hollow alongside Phillip Iscove.

Orci and Kurtzman's first film project was Michael Bay's The Island, and due to that partnership they went on to write the scripts for the first two films of the Transformers film series.

Orci first became a film producer with 2008's Eagle Eye and again with 2009's The Proposal. He and Kurtzman since returned to working with Abrams on Mission: Impossible III and both Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness.

Between 2005 and 2011, Kurtzman and Orci's film projects took revenues of more than $3 billion.

In April 2014, Orci and Kurtzman announced that they would only collaborate in television projects, and Orci worked on the third Star Trek film, Star Trek Beyond, until being replaced the following December.

Orci created the television series Matador for the El Rey Network, but after this was initially renewed, it was cancelled at the end of the first season.

Both Kurtzman and Orci continue to work as producers on the television series Limitless and Scorpion.

Orci was awarded the Norman Lear Writer's Award and the Raul Julia Award for Excellence, in addition to shared awards and nominations including The George Pal Memorial Award.

Early life

Orci was born in Mexico City on July 20, 1973, to a Mexican father and a Cuban mother. Orci grew up in Mexico, and moved with his family to the United States at the age of 10. He was raised in Texas, Los Angeles and Canada.

He met his longtime friend and collaborator Alex Kurtzman when both were 17-year-old students at Crossroads, a privately funded school in Santa Monica, California. The first time they came across each other was in a film class, where they discovered each other's love for films and in particular the Steven Soderbergh film Sex, Lies, and Videotape. The duo found that they had a number of things in common, as Kurtzman had previously lived in Mexico City and the two could relate. Orci later called him an "honorary Hispanic". Orci went on to attend the University of Texas at Austin. The duo got together once again, and began to write scripts. These included one called Misfortune Cookies which Orci described as "loosely autobiographical", and Last Kiss, which Kurtzman said was their version of The Breakfast Club but was set in a lunatic asylum.

Personal life

Orci married actress and screenwriter Adele Heather Taylor on June 6, 2020 in a private ceremony. They work together as screenwriters and producers.

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Career

After being recruited by Sam Raimi, Orci and Kurtzman began their writing collaboration on the television show Hercule Journeys. The pair were required to come up with innovative ways to minimize actor Kevin Sorbo's appearances on screen after actor Kevin Sorbo suffered a stroke. They became show runners at the age of 24 thanks to their hard work. They were also involved in the sister-series to Hercules, Xena: Warrior Princess. They wanted to write for a network-based television series, but they had a difficult time doing so. They met with J. Abrams, who was starting work on Alias at the time, after receiving a string of negative responses. The meeting went well and culminated in them working on the series. The three co-creators of Fox science fiction series Fringe will continue to collaborate on the Fox science fiction film Fringe.

Orci and Kurtzman got their first break in writing for films in 2004, with the Michael Bay film The Island, for which they wrote the spec script by Caspian Tredwell-Owen. When Kurtzman and Orci first met Bay, he asked them, "Why should I trust you?" "You shouldn't yet have a problem," Orci said. Let's see what happens." Although the film was not a huge success, they were still waiting for Bay's next film, Transformers, after producer Steven Spielberg asked them to attend a meeting. At the box office, the film grossed $710 million.

The pair were brought in to revise the script for Zack Snyder's Watchmen in an uncredited capacity following their appearance on the film. Mission: Impossible III was they together with Abrams once more. They worked with Bay once more on Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, but they were under significant time pressures due to the 2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike. Kurtzman and Orci were given two weeks to outline the film, and after the attack Bay had them relocated into the Hotel Casa del Mar. Bay was six blocks away from his office, allowing Bay to conduct surprise inspections.

Kurtzman and Orci's films made more than $3 billion in the period between 2005 and 2011, earning Forbes' description of them as "Hollywood's darkest weapons." Due to the sheer volume of projects they were involved in, writers had to collaborate with other writers. For example, they collaborated on Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, where they took over from them the writing duties for the Transformers: Dark of the Moon's sequel.

Orci's first appearance as a producer came with the film Eagle Eye, where he appeared again alongside Kurtzman. In an interview with Extra, he said he had previously worked in productions where the authors had writing experience and wanted to assist them, and he was eager to give the writers the same support. "They have retained the producer-writer power that they earned in television and carried that over to the film industry, which is quite rare," the film's producer, D. J. Caruso said. They were executive producers on Sandra Bullock's film, The Proposal, after their work on Eagle Eye.

Orci and Kurtzman continued to produce television series throughout their film careers. Sleepy Hollow, which they created with Phillip Iscove, was one of them. They pitched the series to a variety of television networks, and Fox picked it up. Matador is a series that began five years ago, and it came from a discussion with his cousin Andrew. It was created for Robert Rodriguez' El Rey Network, and Rodriguez's first request of the show was that he could control the pilot episode. Orci later revealed in an interview that it was a simple decision and he wanted to investigate it.

Orci and Kurtzman also worked as executive producers on Transformers: Prime, the animated television series, due to their involvement with the live action films. Following the conclusion of the series, they were hoping to be part of a future animated film based on the idea, but Orci felt less like a revival of the show and more like a continuation in a new form. Although Prime Minister May was technological, he was worried that younger viewers were being left out due to its complexity and intensity.

Orci and Kurtzman were asked to write the script for a new Star Trek film, but Orci refused to write it, despite Orci being a huge fan of the series. Orci recommended rewinding the timeline as seen previously in the films and television series, as well as returning Leonard Nimoy as Spock from Star Trek: The Original Series. He believed the first two films in the reboot series to be the crew's origin tale, and that the third film would be launched where the crew was on the crew's first two films in Star Trek: The Original Series. Orci said that the James T. Kirk's friendship with the younger Spock was representative of his own and Kurtzman's friendship, that was "unfortunately to say we weren't even aware we were writing about ourselves until we were halfway through the script."

Star Trek's domestic box-office was a success, resulting in the development of a sequel and Kurtzman and Orci being asked to write it. In an interview with TrekMovie.com, the studio put aside a larger budget for the sequel, which Orci revealed in a separate interview. Orci ruled out the "hero quitting" element of a second film, which had been included in the Transformers sequel, because the Enterprise's crew was involved in the venture's sequel, but it did not have to refer to all sequels. Orci was one of the film's few people who didn't give much away about the villain in the film and denied that Benedict Cumberbatch would play Khan Noonian Singh during the buildup to the film, Into Darkness.

Orci and Kurtzman told Variety in April that they will no longer be collaborating on film projects but that they will also collaborate on television. Kurtzman wanted to work on the Spider-Man film franchise, while Orci was devoted to the role of Star Trek 3. Orci said later this year that he was not involved in the development of The Amazing Spider-Man 3 with Kurtzman later this year. Orci and Kurtzman's K/O Paper Products continues to work as a production company within CBS Television Studios and has developed the series Scorpion based on Walter O'Brien's life. Limitless was released for the 2011-16 season of the film Limitless.

The pair were lined up to write the third film in the new Star Trek series prior to Kurtzman and Orci's separation. Skydance and Paramount Pictures reported that Orci would direct the third installment of the Star Trek reboot series after Abrams went on to direct Star Wars: The Force Awakens. This would have been Orci's first directorial debut, and he'd write the script with co-writer JD Payne and Patrick McKay. He was ruled out of a recent Power Rangers film due to his dedication to Star Trek 3 and for which he would have been executive producer. However, it was confirmed on December 5 that he would no longer be directing the Star Trek film. He is still credited as a producer on the film, and after Orci's initial script was scrapped, Doug Jung and cast member Simon Pegg were replaced as the script writers. Justin Lin, who had previously produced films in The Fast and Furious franchise, was Orci's replacement as director.

Orci created Matador with the intention that the main character, who is a spy by night, will be a "soccer player" by day, and the main character will be named "Latin James Bond." Robert Rodriguez's El Rey Network brought the series to life. It was renewed for a second season shortly before the pilot was broadcast, but Rodriguez had already directed the pilot. Despite the earlier revival, the show was cancelled following the first season's production. Poor international sales accounted for this decision.

Roberto Orci had been hired by Sony to write a script for a unidentified Marvel film that would be set in Sony Pictures Universe of Marvel Characters in March 2020.

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