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The secret Hollywood geek brain trust has produced an interesting new TV idea — and it sounds like a mashup of The X-Files with The West Wing. Jon Favreau, Roberto Orci, Seth Green and Michael Dougherty have penned a pilot, that could be the greatest thing ever created, or The Event season two. More »
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Looking for clues as to where Star Trek 2 might be going boldly? In an interview with StarTrek.com, series writer Mike Johnson and Star Trek movie co-writer Roberto Orci revealed that the newly released IDW comic book will both set the stage for the next film and revisit episodes of the original series: More »
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It looks like the Ender's Game movie is really moving forward, with Gavin Hood (Wolverine) as director. The film put out a ton of casting calls a couple weeks ago, including all the major characters. More »
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We were at the special Comic-Con screening of Locke & Key, an attempted TV adaptation of Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez's acclaimed horror fantasy comic. We can officially add this to the list of brilliant pilots that never got series. More »
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The Star Trek 2 script was supposed to be finished by Christmas 2009, and it's still not done. So it should surprise nobody that there's talk that the Trek sequel may be delayed six months from June 2012 release date. More »
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We're huge fans of Star Trek: The Animated Series, which brought back the Original Series cast and writers and included some surprisingly great stories. So it's good news that Roberto Orci tweeted that a new animated Trek could be materializing. More »
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Transformers: Prime is the latest computer-animated incarnation of the long-running franchise, executive produced by the writers of the Transformers movies and reuniting the original voices of Optimus Prime and Megatron. After the show's initial five-part miniseries last year, Transformers Prime returns this Friday with the rest of its 26 episode season. We recently got a chance to see Friday's episode as well as hear from executive producers Roberto Orci and Jeff Kline on what lies ahead for the show.

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What's in store for us on television this fall? If the pilot scripts the networks have ordered are anything to go by, there'll be lots of zombies, fantasy police work, angels, and superheroes. Here's our complete run-down of the pilot scripts that each of the major networks is looking at for Fall 2011 at the moment. More »
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Originally, the screenwriters promised the script for the Star Trek sequel would be done by Christmas 2009. Then it was Christmas 2010. Now it's still in the works. We have no idea why, so we made up some reasons. More »
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We knew Wolverine: Origins director Gavin Hood was attached to a big-screen adaptation of Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game, but now the word is that Star Trek/Fringe scribes Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci are shopping the script around Hollywood. More »
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Mark Romanek is joining the ranks of movie-makers turned TV directors. Rumor has it Romanek will be joining the list of impressive names working on Locke & Key including Sarah Connor Chronicles' Josh Friedman, Steven Spielberg, and Kurtzman and Orci. More »
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The screenplay for the sequel to J.J. Abrams' better-than-we'd-dared-hope Star Trek is almost done, and news has been trickling out. We dig through all the evidence, and ask whether this film could avoid the dreaded ailment of sequel-itis. More »
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It's been a while since we've heard anything about the second Star Trek, and finally Star Trek director J.J. Abrams and screenwriters Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman have dropped hints about the script-less sequel's baddies and tone. More »
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We caught up with Roberto Orci, co-writer of Star Trek and producer of Fringe, last night at a Comic Con party. He told us how Steven Spielberg schooled the Cowboys and Aliens crew on Westerns, and gave a Trek update. More »
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Sam Rockwell has joined Jon Favreau's Cowboys And Aliens comic book adaptation — making this movie possibly the geekiest undertaking happening right now, thanks to a cast that also includes Harrison Ford, Daniel Craig and Olivia Wilde. More »
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Is science fiction doomed on television? Hell no! Here are 18 TV series in the pipeline that could recharge your love of the fantastical, including alien invasions, dinosaurs, superheroes, time travel, super-spies, government conspiracies, zombies and changelings. Minor spoilers ahead. More »
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Powerhouse writing team Orci and Kurtzman aren't done with Fox's TV line-up just yet. The Fringe duo signed a deal with Fox promising three more years of NEW mind-warping TV. Our pitch: a Walter Bishop origins series, Acid Dreams. [THR] More »
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When Lost returns on Tuesday, the surprises will come thick and fast. How would you survive if you were trapped inside a twisty J.J. Abrams story? There's only one way to find out: by playing the J.J. Abrams board game. More »
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The next Star Trek film has ditched the time-traveling plot line, and now writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci have announced that the sequel will revolve around its villain. But who will put this new crew to the test? More »
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Nestor Carbonell, also known as Batmanuel and Richard Alpert from Lost, is getting the rumor treatment today as a possible casting option for Star Trek 2's villainous Khan. One problem: No one knows if Khan's even in the next movie. More »
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Star Trek's second pilot — a longer version of "Where No Man Has Gone Before," introducing Captain Kirk — has never appeared anywhere, but it'll be on a new Blu-Ray set. Meanwhile, the next Trek movie is delayed one year. More »
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If you feel as if today's science fiction is full of remakes, retreads and just plain rip-offs of what's come before, there's a reason for that, according to Star Trek and Transformers co-writer Roberto Orci. And it's not laziness. More »
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One has the dream team of Orci & Kurtzman attached and the other, has robots? The Trek/Fringe writers have left Transformers 3, claiming they didn't have a solid story. They've moved on... to writing a vehicle for the View-Master toy. More »
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Writers Orci and Kurtzman say that talk of a topical Guantanamo allegory in Star Trek 2 was just water-cooler chatter. And J.J. Abrams tells us he wants to steer clear of political message-mongering. But has no problem with "modern issues." More »
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In web cartoon turned comic book Xombie, a sentient zombie protects a lone human girl from the mindless undead. Now DreamWorks is in talks to bring Xombie to the big screen, along with Star Trek's Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. More »
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If you missed the Gene Roddenberry-ish social message in the most recent J.J. Abrams movie, then rejoice. On the other hand, if you're already tired of Bush-era "war on terror/torture" allegories, then the latest Star Trek 2 reports may disappoint. More »
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We cornered Roberto Orci last weekend and asked him whether the second Star Trek would follow the same pattern as Transformers 2: the hero refuses the call to heroism. He explained why Trek will be different, and talked Fringe. More »
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How do things like robot urination and teabagging end up in the Transformers movies? We asked co-writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman. And the duo hinted that, contrary to press reports, they may be up for Transformers 3. Spoilers ahead... More »
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The new Star Trek movie may not actually feature Khan Noonien Singh — or any other villain, for that matter. Co-writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, who hope to have a script finished by Christmas, tease a very different storyline. More »
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Masi Oka's character on Heroes has dispensed so much conventional wisdom about heroism, it gives the entire audience nosebleeds. But now Oka is set to show us the true nature of heroism: via a story about massively multiplayer online games. More »
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In the new season of Fringe, we won't just meet a tough new female FBI agent — we'll also meet an eccentric scientist and his former-rascal family member, whom she becomes involved with. Sound like anybody we know? Spoilers ahead... More »
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One thing missing from J.J. Abrams' new Star Trek was a heavy handed message, about racism or international relations. We asked writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman what it all meant. With minor spoilers... More »
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JJ Abrams' dazzling lensflares just made you hungry for even more Star Trek? Here're some of the shiniest Trek stories we've posted recently to get you caught up on what's boldly going on. More »
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The new Star Trek movie, opening tonight, is a brilliant and exciting re-imagining of the original series. But the real revelation here isn't the new Trek - it's the hot, sexy new Spock. Spoilers ahead! More »
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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen director Michael Bay recently revealed he hated one particular robot in disguise so much that he only included it in the sequel so that he could kill it off. Spoilers… More »
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Gun slinging cowboys take on aliens — with a rumored Robert Downey Jr. leading the calvary. Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci fill in the details on how their laser-blasting Western is coming along. More »
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Before Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman were writing Star Trek, Fringe, Transformers and every other major scifi project, they worked on a little show called Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. Here's a look inside their creative process, from a Hercules episode called "Yes, Virginia, There Is A Hercules" (which they wrote.) Orci (played by Paul Glover) and Kurtzman (played by Ted Raimi) share bunk beds and grapple with their tyrannical boss (Bruce Campbell). They even whistle the Hercules theme while they pee. But it's not all fun and games in TV-land, as they discover when the pitch a spin-off called Chimpules: The Legendary Monkey. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5034024&view=rss&microfeed=true Not only did it provide free wi-fi for Comic-Con attendees this past weekend, but now we have another reason to be thankful for new Shia LeBeouf vehicle Eagle Eye. Writer Roberto Orci is hinting very broadly that the release of the movie on September 26th will also include the first trailer for Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen. [Roberto Orci on TF2 Trailer] More »
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Transformers 2 starts filming in three weeks, and already the screenwriters are letting more details slip out about who's joining the Decepticon posse. Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (who also wrote Star Trek) revealed some details on who's out, and who's more than meets the eye, in next year's robot action movie. More »
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Writers Alan Kurtzman and Roberto Orci managed to transform the old Transformers franchise into a hit movie, and everyone's hoping they'll do the same for Star Trek. But will they be able to work similar magic with a graphic novel that almost nobody has read, that hasn't even finished publishing in comic-book form? They just signed on to adapt Atlantis Rising, a comic book about underwater aliens who want us to stop polluting the oceans. (But at least the aliens look like porn stars.) More »
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