And he's splitting up his writing partnership with Alex Kurtzman
After writing as a unit for more than a decade and turning into something of a production company powerhouse/hive mind, Star Trek scribes Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci have decided to call it quits. No, snark fans, they’re not quitting the biz, simply focusing on separate film projects, which in Kurtzman’s case means negotiating to direct Amazing Spider-spin-off Venom and in Orci’s, lobbying to sit in the big chair for Star Trek 3 .
The directorial news is perhaps not that surprising: Kurtzman, after all, already has one credit under his belt with indie People Like Us and both have worked on enough huge movies to learn a thing or two. But while we can conceivably see Sony handing the lower-risk Venom on to a relative newcomer in the director’s chair, it’s tougher to see Paramount pulling a Starfleet and giving control of one of its franchise jewels to a man who, like Chris Pine’s Kirk, has zero experience directly running the show.
Star Trek 3, which Orci is writing with Patrick McKay and John D. Payne, has been the subject of much speculation over who might direct it now that J.J Abrams is a bit busy in another galaxy. Attack The Block’s Joe Cornish was seriously considered but long appears to have turned down the idea. Orci would be a much bigger risk despite his franchise writing credits and his experience running TV shows.
Talking of the small screen, it appears that while the pair – who have mutually and amicably decided to separate their creative partnership – will split their developing film projects between them, and will likely keep the TV side of their business united.
from Empire News
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