Screenwriters Alex Kurtzman<\/b> and Roberto Orci<\/b> this week spoke about the way they craft film stories even as they signed on for what may be their unlikeliest project yet… a film adaptation of the popular 1980s toy the View-Master.<\/p>\n
According to an article<\/a> in the Hollywood Reporter, Kurtzman and Orci would merely be producing the View-Master film, for which Fringe<\/i> writer Brad Caleb Kane<\/b> would be writing the script. “It’ll be like the old ’80s Amblin movies: Goonies<\/i>, Young Sherlock<\/i> … in that vein,” Kane reportedly wrote in a Twitter post before later taking it down. It’s not known what kind of story could be based on a toy that’s essentially nothing more than a way to watch a slide show, but Kurtzman and Orci already have some experience adapting toys into best-selling movies, as they’re also responsible for the Transformers<\/i> franchise.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Besides the View-Master film, Kurtzman and Orci will also be working on the next Star Trek<\/i> film, scheduled to be released in 2011. Speaking to the Welland Tribune<\/a>, they pondered whether to introduce a new villian for the film or go for an established character like Khan. Orci said someone like Khan would immediately attract the attention of “the media-sphere,” and the article went on to float Javier Bardem<\/b> as a possible actor who could play the role. “[On] the other hand,” Orci said, “who doesn’t love an original story?”<\/p>\n Finally, Screen International recently posted a long profile of the writers, tracking their career from Hercules<\/i> and Xena<\/i> to their current status as Hollywood’s hot-shot writers. In the article, they compared Transformers<\/i>, which they brought to the big screen for the first time, to Star Trek<\/i>, for which they had to deal with a large amount of established background material. “You’ve had 10 movies, five TV shows, novels, comics, 43 years of stuff and with that we had to make sure it was a story worth telling. Fortunately there was this unbelievable gap in the Star Trek<\/i> history of how Kirk and Spock and the Enterprise crew come together.”<\/p>\n For insights from the two writers on how they approached many of their other film projects, please head over to the full article at ScreenDaily.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Screenwriters Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci this week spoke about the way they craft film…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2401],"tags":[2694,2465,2466,2785],"class_list":["post-5743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-trek-xi","tag-khan","tag-kurtzman","tag-orci","tag-view-master"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T'Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"Star Trek: XI<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: XI","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5743","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=5743"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6799,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5743\/revisions\/6799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}