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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.
Roberto Orci
Writer
for Writer in Transformers: Rise of Prime
Suggested by autobotsonicfan2007
Orion Pax, his girlfriend Ariel and best friend Dion have witnessed the true evil of Megatronus Prime and his pupil Megatron, the undefeated gladiator as they take civilians like the sparkling Jazz, the junior medic Ratchet, and the rookie security guard Ironhide to be chained in the middle of an arena while Megatron tries to kill for the fun of it. Orion saves them but pays the price. The Primes have fought Megatronus, but fell at the hands of him and Liege Maximo, another traitorous Prime.The three cvilian bots take Orion's body to Alpha Trion to revive him, as Ariel and Dion lead a new faction known as the Autobots against the newly formed faction the Decepticons, led by Megatron and Megatronus. On Orion's journey after resurrection, he encounters an entire planet of Dinobots, ruled by the powerful Giganaut and his son Grimlock, already at war with the Terrorcons. But it ended with Orion Pax's help. Together, Orion Pax leads his friends and the Dinobots to Cybertron and aid the Autobots in the first civil war in Cybertronian history.
