Roberto Orci Reviews, Interviews & More
Sometimes…sometimes there simply are not enough words to capture how goofy, inane, and misguided a film or television project can be, but perhaps today we’ve found a new term to capture when a Hollywood project crosses over into simple, stupid self-parody: we’ll call it Sleepy Hollow. Why? Because that’s the name of a new TV series set to launch this fall on Fox. It’s...
This week isn’t great for new releases, unless you’re a Tim Burton apologist, but it does have a classic Disney film, one of the best films of the last twenty years, and some great and not so great ghoulish delights. It must be October…
Sigh, where to begin? First, the villain for the upcoming Star Trek 2 was original series super villain Khan. Then, crewmembers quashed the Khan rumor, saying he’s not in the film at all. And then, the villain was leaked to be Khan once again. Then, Karl Urban, who plays Dr. McCoy in both Star Trek and Star Trek...
Ok, Star Trek 2, this “who is the film’s villain?” thing is getting old. First it was it Khan, then it wasn’t Khan, then it was Khan again. Sure, we could wait until 2013 to find out, like mature human beings, but that simply isn’t what the internet was made for. Which is why a recent interview with Star Trek 2’s Karl Urban (he plays Dr. McCoy) is raising...
I’d like to just take a moment, if I could, to thank the universe itself for being such a random and meaningless expanse of haphazardly interconnecting systems of chaos that it would allow me to write, after all the random pieces fell into place, the most random entertainment news headline I’ve ever penned, concerning Tom Cruise, a Van Helsing reboot, and the team...
Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci—the scriptwriting team has been responsible for some massive blockbusters, from the Transformers franchise (sigh) to the rebooted Star Trek and it’s upcoming sequel, along with creating the Fringe TV series (they also wrote The Island and The...
This weekend in theaters, Favreau is back with two grumpy, bad-asses, Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford with his latest genre twist, Cowboys & Aliens. The film is big and bad, with plenty of explosions and known faces, but it never quite delivered on anything I was hoping for. The biggest problem with this film is that it's very much a Western, with alien bad-guys, that...
After the huge success of the Star Trek reboot in 2009 it was no surprise that a sequel was greenlit shortly after its release. The film already had a huge fan base thanks to the 40-plus years of previous television and movie installments to its credit. When you have such a sure deal you want to maximize the potential and expand the franchise as much as possible but...
How many sci-fi writers and producers do you need to make a great show? Last February we reported on a developing property from fanboy favorites Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci called "Locke & Key." At the time, the duo had just received the rights to the comic book series and now it's gone from a possible feature film to a TV show that Steven Spielberg wants to be a...
Alex Kurtzman and his long time collaborator Roberto Orci have been granted the rights to the comic book series Locke & Key, written by Joe Hill and drawn by Gabriel Rodriguez. Latino Review reports that Kurtzman and Orci will produce the project through their DreamWorks deal, which has potential to become a huge franchise.
Last week, Michael Bay informed the world that he would be returning to helm the third installment of the Transformers franchise. The film is scheduled for a July 2011 release, and will feature the return of Shia Labeouf and Megan Fox in their respective roles. As for who won't be returning, co-writers Alex Kurtzman and Robert Orci have opted against writing duties...
DreamWorks is in negotiations to acquire the rights to Xombie, a story that was recently pitched to the studio. Oddly enough, the film isn't a horror thriller based on the radical behavior of the undead. Instead, the film centers on a zombie who also happens to be a police officer. The movie was pitched by a policeman turned writer named Will...
After the success of this summer's Star Trek reboot, director J.J. Abrams has been busy creating a detailed story for the follow up. With the sequel being confirmed, there are several things that the director along with the rest of the cast and crew have to live up to. The first film was liked by the majority of fans and critics, but still had a few kinks to work out....
Stop the madness people! If you thought film adaptations based on inanimate objects were a fluke, there's another one coming your way. According to ComingSoon, Brad Caleb Kane who currently writes/produces the Fox series Fringe is working on a screenplay centering on the View Master. It's the toy we've all played with at some...
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Brakes have been placed on Steven Soderbergh's new movie about the career of former baseball phenom Billy Beane, titled Moneyball and starring Brad Pitt. According to Variety, Columbia Pictures had a change of heart after company topper Amy Pascal read the final script and...
As we've seen over and over again, with big blockbusters (Indian Jones comes to mind for some reason), sometimes hype is enough. It's enough to break box office records, it's enough to get a horrible movie released and it's enough to green-light a sequel to a film before the original has even been released. I mean, they did it with Twilight,...
I've got some good news and some bad news for Transformers fans. When Paramount announced that there would be a third film, it seemed as if they jumped the gun on a lot of things. For one, director Michael Bay blasted the studio for setting a premature release date for the flick. Bay stated that he agreed to directing the film for 2012 not 2011 as reported. If...
