“I HAVE always identified with Spock,” confessed screenwriter and producer Roberto Orci, one half of a franchisefriendly creative partnership called “Hollywood’s secret weapons” by Forbes magazine. “He’s a legal alien who came from another planet and teamed up with an American, the way that I’ve teamed up with my friend Alex Kurtzman.”
Born in Mexico City, Orci devoured American pop culture as a kid, improving his English through an omnivorous diet of imported films and television. Moving to Texas at 10, he went on to study in Santa Monica, California, meeting future collaborator Kurtzman in film class. The pair bonded over a mutual appreciation of Steven Soderbergh’s Sex, Lies, And Videotape.
Orci and Kurtzman began their TV careers on Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess, as well as…
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