Roberto Orchi, one of the most prolific and successful Hollywood writers and producers in recent memory, passed away Tuesday of kidney failure. He was 51 years old.
Orci is best known for his work with fellow author and creator Alex Kurtzman. Together, the pair produced a large number of hits such as: Missions: Impossible III, Star Trek, Transformers, Amazing Spider-Man 2, more. Really, what the pair touched was gold, and the two best words you could hear in Hollywood were “Kurtzmann and Orsi.”
The relationship ended in 2014, with Kurtzman moving to CBS Star Trek Shows like discovery and Picard Not only will he direct the Tom Cruise film mummy ,To help Orsi take him to the beach and take him home. Hawaii 5-O 10 years. But even with their own new individual success, their names will last forever.
Orci and his partner essentially defined a time when Nerdy wasn’t that cool yet. Big IPS had just begun to break into the mainstream in a way that would become a second thought a few years later. It started in the late 1990s when I wrote my work. Hercules: A legendary journey and Xena: Warrior Princess. They then connected with Bad Robot and JJ Abrams. alias and fringe Before graduating to the big screen with a movie like 2009 Star Trek And 2007 transformer. It’s not even a cheap sequel – they also had a small part to play with them, but it’s a really good original.
For about a decade or so, it almost seemed Orsi and his friends weren’t wrong. They brought together the dream teams such as Harrison Ford, Daniel Craig and John Favreau. Cowboys and Aliens. Unfortunately, it didn’t meet that standard, but that was the power of Orci at the time. You were hoping it would be amazing, as everyone involved was amazing.
There were a lot of other notable projects along the way, such as a TV remake. Sleepy Hollow, Infinite And his original idea, Matador. And at just 51 years old, you’d imagine there were some notable projects for the next decades. Orci had a dream career, but it ended too quickly.
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