When you’re named one of Hollywood Reporter’s Top 50 Most Powerful Latinos in the film industry, chances are you’re probably doing something right in your career.
That’s where screenwriter Roberto Orci, 35, found himself last year after co-writing the script for “Transformers,” the second-highest grossing film of 2007 with over $155 million earned at the box office. His career as a feature-film writer started in 2005 when he wrote the sci-fi action flick “The Island” starring Scarlett Johansson and Ewan McGregor. The following year, Orci’s name was attached to two more blockbuster action movies, “The Legend of Zorro” and “Mission Impossible III.”
This year, Orci, who is originally from México City, has taken off his film screenwriting hat to focus on producing the thriller “Eagle Eye” with his writing partner Alex Kurtzman. Directed by D.J. Caruso (“Disturbia”), “Eagle Eye” follows two strangers (Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan) whose lives intersect when one of them receives a mysterious phone call.
During a phone conversation, Orci – whose next two co-writing gigs are for the new “Star Trek” movie and the sequel to “Transformers” – talked to EXTRA about what work was like as a producer and how he and Kurtzman have become the writing duo everyone wants to hire.
EXTRA: Was it difficult going into “Eagle Eye” knowing that someone else would be writing the script?
Roberto Orci: I could go so far as to say that it was impossible, but we work with amazing writers. That part of our brain I didn’t need to shut off because that was very natural for us. It’s like when an actor decides to start directing and there is an extra level of comfort that keeps everything quantified because you are by nature speaking the same language.
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