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Roberto Gaston Orcí (July 20, 1973 – February 25, 2025) was a Mexican-American film and television screenwriter and producer. He began his longtime collaboration with Alex Kurtzman while at school in California. Together they have been employed on television series such as Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess. In 2008, together with J. J. Abrams, they created Fringe. In 2013, they created Sleepy Hollow alongside Phillip Iscove. Orci and Kurtzman's first film project was Michael Bay's The Island, and due to that partnership they went on to write the scripts for the first two films of the Transformers film series. Orci first became a film producer with 2008's Eagle Eye and again with 2009's The Proposal. He and Kurtzman since returned to working with Abrams on Mission: Impossible III and both Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness. Between 2005 and 2011, Kurtzman and Orci's film projects took revenues of more than $3 billion. In April 2014, Orci and Kurtzman announced that they would only collaborate in television projects, and Orci worked on the third Star Trek film, Star Trek Beyond, until being replaced the following December. Orci created the television series Matador for the El Rey Network, but after this was initially renewed, it was cancelled at the end of the first season. Both Kurtzman and Orci continue to work as producers on the television series Limitless and Scorpion. Orci was awarded the Norman Lear Writer's Award and the Raul Julia Award for Excellence, in addition to shared awards and nominations including The George Pal Memorial Award. Description above from the Wikipedia article Roberto Orci, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Adventure Time: Awakening is an upcoming American animated sci-fi action fantasy film. The film is directed and produced by Michael Bay, written by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura and based on the television series of the same name created by Pendleton Ward. The film stars Jeremy Shada, Madeleine Martin, John DiMaggio, Roz Ryan, Steve Little, Elle Newlands, Tom Kenny, Grey DeLisle, Olivia Olson, Donald Glover, Hynden Walch, Neil Patrick Harris, Jessica DiCicco, Hannibal Buress, Niki Yang, Gary Anthony Williams, Stephen Root, Sharon Horgan, with Lauren Lapkus and Lennon Parham. The film takes place four years after the Gum War where Finn celebrates his 21st birthday as he meets Fionna and Cake, and the other pop culture characters to stop Dr. Gross and her new servants. Finn will bring Flame Princess, his old friend, back together by confessing to her about what happened that she broke up on him and showing her the evidence. Meanwhile, Simon Abadeer the Vampire Knight, future son of Marceline Abadeer and Bonnibel Bubblegum, travels back in time to kill his mothers, but refuses to kill them both if he alters the timeline. The film will have its premiere at Cinerama Dome in Hollywood on April 2, 2020 and will be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures in North America and Paramount Pictures in other territories in RealD 3D, IMAX 3D, 4DX at Regal Cinemas and Dolby Cinema on April 3, 2020. The film will also be released on Netflix on June 3, 2020.
