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Roberto Orci

Production

Born July 20, 1973 · Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico [now Mexico City, Mexico]

Died February 25, 2025

Also known as Roberto Gaston Orcí · Roberto Orcí · روبيرتو أورسي

Biography

Roberto Gaston Orcí (July 20, 1973 – February 25, 2025) was a Mexican-American 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 Kurtzman's first film project was Michael Bay's 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 2008's Eagle Eye and again with 2009's 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 Orci's 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 Writer's 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 CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Awards & recognition

  • The George Pal Memorial Award

Filmography29 titles

Scorpion

2014Executive Producer

Transformers Prime

2010Executive Producer

Fringe

2008Producer, Writer

Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters - Predacons Rising

2013Producer, Writer

Hawaii Five-0

2010Creator, Executive Producer, Producer, Story, Writer

Xena: Warrior Princess

1995Teleplay

Jack of All Trades

2000Producer, Writer

Sleepy Hollow

2013Executive Producer, Story, Teleplay, Writer

Star Trek

2009Executive Producer, Writer

Limitless

2015Executive Producer

Star Trek Into Darkness

2013Producer, Writer

Now You See Me

2013Producer

The Proposal

2009Executive Producer

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys

1995Teleplay, Writer

Star Trek Beyond

2016Producer

Now You See Me 2

2016Producer

People Like Us

2012Producer, Screenplay

Transformers

2007Screenplay, Story

Mission: Impossible III

2006as Party Guest (uncredited)

Alias

2001Co-Executive Producer, Executive Producer, Producer, Supervising Producer, Writer

The Island

2005Screenplay

Ender's Game

2013Producer

Now You See Me: Now You Don't

2025Producer

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

2014Executive Producer, Screenplay, Story

Eagle Eye

2008Producer

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

2009Writer

The Legend of Zorro

2005Screenplay, Story

Cowboys & Aliens

2011Producer, Screenplay

The Mummy

2017Executive Producer