Roberto Orci

Roberto Gaston Orcí July 20 1973 February 25 2025 was a MexicanAmerican 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 Kurtzmans first film project was Michael Bays 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 2008s Eagle Eye and again with 2009s 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 Orcis 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 Writers Award and the Raul Julia Award for Excellence in addition to shared awards and nominations including The George Pal Memorial Award Description above from the Wikipedia article Roberto Orci licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia