{"id":10059,"date":"2010-08-27T12:31:45","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T19:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=10059"},"modified":"2010-08-27T12:31:45","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T19:31:45","slug":"kurtzman-to-direct-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2010\/08\/kurtzman-to-direct-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurtzman To Direct Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Alex Kurtzman<\/strong> will soon have his first film directing job, courtesy of <strong>Steven Spielberg<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Kurtzman will direct <em>Welcome to People<\/em>, a film written by Kurtzman, <strong>Roberto Orci<\/strong>, and <strong>Jody Lambert<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Kurtzman082710.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10060\" title=\"Kurtzman082710\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Kurtzman082710.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"112\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>According to Vulture,<em> Welcome to People<\/em> is &#8220;the story of a struggling twenty-something man who, after flying home to L.A. for the funeral of his estranged record-producer father, discovers that the will stipulates that he must deliver $150,000 in cash to a 30-year-old alcoholic sister he never knew existed, and her troubled 12-year-old son. Determined to keep the money to solve his own problems, he&#8217;s nonetheless fascinated by his unknown kin and makes contact with the two without revealing who he really is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The script for <em>Welcome to People<\/em> was written six years ago, but offered to Spielberg recently when Kurtzman wanted to branch out beyond action movies.<\/p>\n<p>The title <em>Welcome to People<\/em> refers to a child anger-management program in which the nephew of the main character is enrolled after he blows up the pool at his middle school using sodium swiped from his chemistry class.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Kurtzman will soon have his first film directing job, courtesy of Steven Spielberg. Kurtzman&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2401],"tags":[2465,3061,3355],"class_list":["post-10059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-xi","tag-kurtzman","tag-spielberg","tag-welcome-to-people"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-xi\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: XI<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: XI","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10061,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10059\/revisions\/10061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}