In another blow to our TV culture, Roberto Orci died as well
While his Star Trek stuff may not have been my cuppa, a LOT of his other work was. Fucking LEGEND for genre TV/film.
Orci began his career as a writer on
Xena: Warrior Princess and
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys in the late 1990s.
He went on to co-write and produce the 2009
Star Trek movie reboot, 2013's
Star Trek Into Darkness and 2016's
Star Trek Beyond. He also wrote 2007's
Transformers and 2009's
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, 2006's
Mission: Impossible III, 2011's
Cowboys and Aliens and 2014's
The Amazing Spider Man 2.
For television, Orci helped develop over 200 episodes o
f Hawaii Five-0 and was also heavily involved with
Sleepy Hollow, Matador, Transformers Prime, Fringe and
Alias.
Orci served as producer and executive producer on many of the above projects, as well as 2017's
The Mummy, 2013's Now You See Me and its sequels, 2013's
Ender's Game, 2009's
The Proposal and the TV series
Scorpion.