Roberto Orci, one of the most prolific and successful Hollywood writers and producers in recent memory, died Tuesday from kidney failure. He is 51 years old.
Orci is known for its collaborations with writer and creator Alex Kurtzman. The two wrote and produced many large number of hit songs, such as Mission: Impossible III, Star Trek, Transformers, Amazing Spider-Man 2, And more. Indeed, there was a time when anything the couple encountered turned into gold, and the two best words you hear in Hollywood were “Kurtzman and Orci.”
This relationship ended in 2014, and Kurtzman continued to move forward with CBS Star Trek Performance Discover and Picard and director Tom Cruise’s movie mummy ,,,,,Orci went to the beach to help bring it back Hawaii Five-O ten years. But even with their new achievements, their names will always be connected.
Orci and his partner basically define an era when nerds aren’t that cool. When the big IPs just started to break into the mainstream with the second thought a few years later. This was written since the late 1990s Hercules: The Legendary Journey and Xena: Warrior Princess. Then they hang up with Bad Robot and JJ Abrams Alias and edge Before graduation, graduated with a film in 2009 Star Trek and 2007 transformer. Not a bad sequel either – although they also have smaller characters to play in, very good original work.
It took about a decade or so, almost like Orci and his friends wouldn’t be wrong. They even had a dream team, including Harrison Ford, Daniel Craig and Jon Favreau, making a cowboy movie called Sci-Fi Cowboys and aliens. Unfortunately, it doesn’t meet its standards, but that’s the power of Orci. You expect it to be great because everyone involved is great.
There are many other notable projects along the way, such as TV remakes Sleepy hollow, infinite And his initial thoughts Bullfighter. Moreover, there are only 51, and one will imagine there are still decades of worthy projects. Orci’s dream career ended too early.
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