Roberto Orci

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To boldly Go Where No Writer Has Gone Before

Roberto "Bob" Gaston Orcí (July 20, 1973–February 25, 2025) was a Mexican-American film and television producer and screenwriter. Together with his friend and writing partner Alex Kurtzman, he wrote several high-profile motion pictures, including The Island (which was directed by Michael Bay), as well as J.J Abrams' Mission Impossible 3 and the critically-acclaimed 2009 Star Trek movie.

You've got to really look at it and see what's going to translate to the storytelling that's relevant now and what has to be sacrificed. Sometimes it's hard to know, so it's important to be disciplined about it. You can't rely on the history of the franchise to engender goodwill—you've got to win the goodwill as if the franchise has never been seen before.Roberto Orci on reworking Transformers into a mainstream success

Credits

Writer

• Transformers (together with Alex Kurtzman)
• Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (together with Kurtzman and Ehren Kruger)

Executive producer

• Transformers: Prime

Fiction

Titan Magazines

His work on Bay's documentaries (or "propaganda" as the Decepticons call them) made him a marked man. #1's Law and Disorder

Sector Seven ARG

Sector Seven agent Hugo Weaving had to convince "R.O." and his compatriots to put him in charge of the "Megaman issue" in the PsyOp exercise of a film the organization is making in order to cover up the existence of N.B.E.s on Earth. Sector Seven ARG

Notes

• Before the release of the first movie, Roberto regularly posted on the Official Transformers Movie forum, answering the questions of fans as best he could. His writing partner Alex Kurtzman occasionally chimed in, though not to the extent of Orci's messages. However, following the release of the movie, Roberto returned to answer questions before the pair left to move onto the Star Trek franchise. Orci also regularly answered fan questions at the official message board of movie producer Don Murphy and at TFW2005, eventually leaving TFW2005 in July 2009.
• "Orci" is pronounced "Or-See", not "Or-Key".

External links

• Roberto Orci at the Internet Movie Database