Roberto Orchi, writer of Star Trek, Transformers and others, has died

Roberto Orchi, one of the most fruitful and successful Hollywood writers And the producers in recent memory died on Tuesday with renal failure. He was 51 years old.

Orchi is best known for his work with his colleague writer and creator Alex Kurtzman. Together the couple wrote and created a murder massive hits as Mission: Impossible III, Star Trek, Transformers, The incredible Spiderman 2., And more. Indeed, there was a time when everything that the couple touched turned into gold and two of the best words you heard in Hollywood were Kurtzman and Orchi.

This connection ended in 2014, in which Kurzman moves to CBS Star Trek shows as Discovery and Picard as well as the directing of Tom Cruise’s movie Mummy .,While Orchi went to the beaches to help get back Hawaii five-o For 10 years. But even with their own more, individual success, their names will be forever associated.

Orchi and his partner generally determined the era when Nerdi was not so cool yet. When the big IPS was just beginning to break into the main stream in a way that would become a second thought years later. This began in the late 90s with work at work Hercules: legendary trips and Zena: War PrincessS They then contacted a bad robot and jj abrams on shows as Nickname and Fringe Before you finish the big screen with movies like 2009 Star Trek and 2007 TransformersS Not the stupid sequels – although they also had smaller parts to play in these – but the really good originals.

For about 10 years or more he was almost like orchs and his friends couldn’t do the wrong. They even gathered a dream team, including Harrison Ford, Daniel Craig and John Favro, to make a science fiction about a cowboy called Cowboys and aliensS Unfortunately, he did not handle his standards, but it was the power of Orchi during this time. You expected it to be amazing because all participants were incredible.

There were tons of other remarkable projects along the way, such as the television remake of Sleepy hollow, boundless and his original idea, MatadorS And only at 51, one would imagine that a few more decades of remarkable projects are coming. Orchi had a dream career that ended too early.

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