Death of Roberto Orci, Star Trek’s screenwriter, Transformers, M: I, alias, Fringe …
At only 51, he died of a kidney disease.
Roberto Orci has just disappeared, announced his manager in the American press. Suffering from a kidney disease, the screenwriter and producer, known in particular for his collaborations with Alex Kurtzman And JJ Abramsdied at only 51 years old.
Born in Mexico in 1973, he had grown in the United States with his family from the age of 10, and started his career in Hollywood in the 1990s, first on the series Xena the warrior And Hercules. The following decade, he began to collaborate with the two men, first on Aliaswriting and producing around thirty episodes of the spy series with Jennifer Garner, then he participated in the creation of several blockbusters: The Island And Zorro legend In 2005, Mission: Impossible 3 A year later, Transformers in 2007, and Star Trek and his suite Into Darknessin 2009 and 2013, year of release of another of its productions, ENDER strategy. In parallel with the recovery of the SF saga, the trio will also have initiated the series Frigningand without JJ, Orci and Kurtzman remake Hawaii State policein 2010: in all, Hawaii 5.0 had ten seasons.
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In 2013, he participated in the TV declination of Sleepy Hollowand a year later, the two men announced that they want to work on separate projects. He then launches solo Matadora show worn by Gabriel Luna, but is ousted from the manufacture of Star Trek 3which was supposed to stage following at the start of Abrams: it was finally Justin Lin who shot this film for La Paramount, in 2016. His last collaboration with Kurtzman finally dates back to 2017, Orci being one of the producers of The mummywith Tom Cruise, which his old friend made.
In 2020, after having co-written The Amazig Spider-Man 2following unloved of the saga with Andrew Garfield, he tries to write a new project around the superhero, but he will not see the light of day, Disney and Sony associating himself during this period to design No Way Home.
As a producer, Roberto Orci has also worked on The proposalwith Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds, Cowboys and invadersfrom Jon Favreau or Elusivefrom Louis Leterrier, in the years 2010.
On a personal level, Roberto Orci shared his alcohol problems publicly last year, accusing his wife Adele Heather Tayloractress seen in particular in Avé, CaesarCoen brothers, to have taken advantage of his alcoholism to extract money from him. She counterattacks by denouncing her violence, both physical and verbal, during moments of bipolarity crises.
His disappearance occurs during the lifetime of his parents. He was also the father of three children, Courtney, JR and Taylor.
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