Roberto Orci, writer of Star Trek, Transformers and more, has died

Roberto Orci, one of the most productive and successful Hollywood writers and producers recently, died of kidney failure on Tuesday. He was 51 years old.

Orci is the best known for his work with the writer and creator Alex Kurtzman. Together, the couple wrote and produced a number of massive hits like them Mission: Impossible III, Star Trek, Transformers, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, and more. Really, there was a time when the couple turned into gold and two of the best words you could hear in Hollywood were “Kurtzman and Orci”.

This relationship ended in 2014, in which Kurtzman moved to CBS Star Trek Shows like discovery And Picard as well as stage the film by Tom Cruise The mom PresentWhile Orci went to the beaches to bring back Hawaii Five-O for 10 years. But even with your own newer, individual successes, your names will be connected forever.

Orci and his partner basically defined an era when Nerdy wasn’t so cool. When the big IPs just entered the mainstream in a way, he became a second thought years later. That started in the late 1990s by writing jobs Hercules: The legendary trips And Xena: Warrior Princess. They then met with bad robots and JJ Abrams in shows how how Alias And Edge area Before completing the big screen with films like 2009’s Star Trek and 2007 Transformers. Not the shitty sequels – although they also had smaller parts to play in them – but the really good originals.

For about 10 years 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, it did not correspond to the standards, but that was the power of Orci during this time. You expected it to be astonishing because everyone involved was incredible.

There were countless other remarkable projects on the way, such as the TV remake of Sleepy hollow, limitless and his original idea Matador. And at the age of only 51, one would imagine that remarkable projects will come for a few decades. Orci had a dream career that ended much too early.

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