Roberto Orci, one of the most prolific and successful Hollywood writers and producers in the recent memory, died Tuesday due to renal failure. He was 51 years old.
Orci is better known for his work with his fellow writer and creator Alex Kurtzman. Together, the couple wrote and produced a lot of mass successes such as Mission: Impossible III, Star Trek, Transformers, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, And more. In truth, there was a time when anything that the couple played became gold and two of the best words you could hear in Hollywood were “Kurtzman and Orci.”
That relationship ended in 2014, which saw Kurtzman move on to CBS’s’s Trek shows like Discovery and Picard In addition to directing the Tom Cruise movie The mummy ,While Orci turned to the beaches to help bring back Hawaii five-o For 10 years. But even with their own newer individual successes, their names will be connected forever.
Orci and his partner basically defined an era in which Nerdy was not so great yet. When the great IP were just beginning to enter the mainstream in a way that would become a second thought years later. Which began in the late 1990s with jobs writing in Hercules: legendary trips and Xena: Warrior Princess. Then they connected with Bad Robot and JJ Abrams in programs such as Alias and Fringe Before graduating on the big screen with films like 2009 Trek and 2007 Transformers. Nor the sequelae of shit, although they also had smaller parts to play in them, but the really good originals.
For about 10 years or so, it was almost as if Orci and his friends couldn’t do anything wrong. They even got a dream team together, including Harrison Ford, Daniel Craig and Jon Favreau, to make a science fiction cowboy film called Cowboys and aliens. Unfortunately, he did not meet his standards, but that was Orci’s power at that time. You expected it to be incredible because everyone involved were incredible.
There were tons of other notable projects along the way, such as the new television version of Sleepy Hollow, unlimited And his original idea, Matador. And, with only 51 years, one imagines that there were several more decades of notable projects to come. Orci had a dream race that ended too soon.
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