Screenwriters KURTZMAN & ORCI: Tricks of the Trade

Less than 10 years in the business and Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci are already one of the most successful screenwriting teams in Hollywood. A team who became just that after meeting in high school, they began in television on the writing staffs of "Hercules", "Xena: Warrior Princess", and eventually the hit ABC show, "Alias", where they collaborated with J.J. Abrams. This duo's screenwriting credits include "The Island", "The Legend of Zorro", "Mission: Impossible III", "Transformers" and the upcoming "Star Trek XI". Find out more as Kurtzman and Orci reveal their experiences analyzing "Robocop", writing in Spanish accents and getting better with age.

This video is an excerpt from the full interview, available on DVD at TheDialogueSeries.com .

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• kirtzman
• orci
• transformers
• film
• lesson
• script
• movie
• screenwriter
• screenplay
• tutorial
• dialogue
• discussion

[partsat99]

These guys are way better than you think. If you had any clue as to how a film gets made and the influence of the studio, producers, director, actor on a script you'd have a clue.

[jabberbandit]

YourLoyalBaron, I too agree with you. They write some pretty awful scripts, but somehow they are paid extremely well, and continue to get big writing gigs. Need I say more about Current Hollywood? Pathetic.

[dasheight]

YourLoyalBaron, I agree 100%. Yes, they can sometimes write a good line, and they have a basic understanding of story-structure , but otherwise, no talent.

[ryanfoley123]

You are a moron and will never be a success. You will be a loser for as long as you live.

[yourLoyalBaron]

What they do is recycle everything they've ever seen in crappy movies and then apply them to Transformers, Star Trek, and a host of other franchises that deserve much better.

My theory is they are the boy toys of closeted gay studio execs. There's no other way to explain how two talentless hacks have been given the best assignments in the history of movies.

What's next? Will they get to write the next James Bond and recycle plot points from Ishtar and dialog from Xena?

[MadScout]

Then mute it, genius.

[PapaWilk]

I can't stand that voice at the beginning of the video