Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci Photo: /www.screendaily.com/pictures/
Collider.com has interviewed screenwriters Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, who penned this summer’s wildly successful “Star Trek” reboot, the first two “Transformers” movies, “Mission: Impossible III” and lots of TV work. The two confirm that they are working on a sequel to “Star Trek.”
Orci says: “We’re still just brainstorming, internally. We’re going to get together soon and see what happens, and start putting it together.” The story itself isn’t figured out yet.
As to the comic adaptation “Cowboys and Aliens,” which the duo is scripting for “Iron Man” and “Iron Man 2” director Jon Favreau, Kurtzman says “It’s the greatest.” Orci expands on this:
"Star Trek" Photo: ILM
“We just started and we’re getting along really well. We’ve sent ourselves back to school and we’re watching Westerns together and analyzing them. We’re just getting into it..We just watched ‘The Searchers’ last.”
“We had a lot of these Westerns in our head, but Jon is an incredible fountain of Western knowledge,” Kurtzman says.
“And, ‘Star Trek’ was originally pitched as a space Western, anyway, so it was a nice lead up to this, for us,” says Orci.
"Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" Photo: Paramount Pictures
The duo confirm that they will not be involved in the third “Transformers” movie, recently announced by director Michael Bay. Orci explains:
“We’ve been working on ‘Transformers’ longer than I was in college. I feel like we have our degree in ‘Transformers’ now.”
And when would they have time? They’re still working as executive producers on the Fox series “Fringe,” and according to The Hollywood Reporter, they’ll be writing the pilot for a new take on the classic TV cop show, “Hawaii Five-0” for CBS.
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