Roberto Orci

Roberto Gaston Orcí (born July 20, 1973) is 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. Provided by Wikipedia