06.29.09 ORCI & KURTZMAN’S NEXT PROJECT
(”Yesterday we had a pillow fight and gave each other haircuts.”)
Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci wrote Star Trek ($246 million so far), Transformers 2 ($201 mil in five days), and produced The Proposal ($69 mil in two weeks), so you could say they’re having a decent year. In related news, I bought pillowcases. Today Variety reports on their next project, producing License to Steal.
Shane Salerno (Armageddon, AVP: R) will pen the script. Project is loosely based on Marc Weingarten’s Salon.com article about the high-end repo business, in which agents travel all the world to reclaim play toys including private jets and speedboats.
I heard Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci settle script disagreements with tickle fights. True story. From the Salon article:
For the past three decades, Nick Popovich has been one of a secret tribe of big game hunters who specialize in stealing jets from the jungle hideouts of corrupt landowners in Colombia, Mexico and Brazil and swiping go-fast boats from Wall Street titans in Miami and East Hampton. Super repos have been known to hire swat teams, hijack supertankers and fly off with eastern bloc military helicopters. For a cut of the overall value, they’ll repossess anything.
And times have never been better. When lenders opened the sluice gates of easy credit throughout the last decade, high rollers went out and splurged on Gulfstreams and yachts. When the job goes away, the bonuses dry up and the stock market tanks, it’s a long and nasty downward spiral that leads to Popovich’s door.
So basically, he’s a modern-day Robin Hood who steals from the rich and gives to the banks. Topical! I plan to protest this film by mailing myself a teabag. It won’t really solve anything, but by the time I figure that out, my troubles will have melted away in a flood of soothing chamomile.

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ORCI & KURTZMAN’S NEXT PROJECT
…it’s a long and nasty downward spiral
I wish you’d stop mocking my sex life.
Those motherfuckers stole my Colecovision that i’d had on layaway from Consolidated Sales Co. since 1989!
You can’t see it, but Orci and Kurtzman are holding hands.
Orci and Kurtzman are advocates of the
ButtBuddy System.Orci and Kurtzman give each other Self-Made Soggy Biscuits every Christmas.
They forgot to mention that during their morning shower, they came up with a pirate movie.
Orci and Kurtzman want you to play with them… forever and ever.
A Jew and 2 killer whales walk into a bar…
Alternate* Title: The Bountiful Hunter.
*retarded
When lenders opened the sluice gates of easy credit throughout the last decade, high rollers went out and splurged on Gulfstreams and yachts.
Sluice gates? Why don’t they just call it anal douche (or “deuche”, for the civilized), and get it over with?
Orci and Kurtzman should make a movie about the abuse of baby cows and call it License to Veal.
I just listened to Vince on the radio, and a couple of thoughts:
1) On the internet, when everybody, (even the tremendously funny folks on FD), are all bizarre Avatars, disgusting self-deprecation, and over-the-top braggadocio, it’s refreshing to hear that Vince is just a normal guys in what sounds like his mid to late twenties. It’s nice that the extreme sarcasm, cynicism, and self-righteous big-thumbed one is just a guy sounding kind of humble that he’s able to do this, and kind of surprised that he’s getting treated like an expert. Anyway, yea, refreshing.
2) The interview with Vince was a nice reminder of how weird the internet is. For example, it’s easy to get a kick out of the Mighty Fek, but weird when you remember he’s kind of an extreme liberal or libertarian science-fiction lover who posts all over the internet as a Klingon. I love the guy’s work, but really, I suppose the high level of funny generated here is not surprisingly, like the true comedy in the real world, done so by a group of likely somewhat troubled people.
3) Either Vince goes as “Vince Mancini” in all aspects of his professional life as a stage-name as so many do, or that’s really his name, which admittedly, was something I hadn’t considered until just now. If so, Vince, you have got the best natural magician’s name ever. Embrace it.
Super Repo-men carry spray bottles full of day-laborers’ sweat just in case those rich bastards get aggressive. It’s like mace to them.
Orci and Kurtzman consider their greatest respective works to be their birthday cards to each other.
Thanks, refined. I normally don’t say “like” that much and hopefully I sound less dorky than that most of the time. I admit they caught me off guard with a couple questions where my honest answer would’ve been “Uh.. I don’t know?” And yes, that is the name I was born with. My official title is “Crotch Magician.”
Carmen Sandiego got her start in this line of work.
Lince is a magician! He can make his dick disappear into his hand at the drop of a hat!
Did he sound tall, Refined?
Vince, I think you missed a great opportunity to resurrect the ghost of your standing invitation to fight Uwe Boll after the videogame movie question, but other than that, you did well.
seriously though, how big is your thumb? after seeing that picture, I just look at mine and sigh.
I hope Kurtzman is the shorter one for no other reason than otherwise I’ve felt I’ve wasted the two semesters of German I took in college.
That cougar hag fag in the back is on the prowl! RAWR!
2) The interview with Vince was a nice reminder of how weird the internet is. For example, it’s easy to get a kick out of the Mighty Fek, but weird when you remember he’s kind of an extreme liberal or libertarian science-fiction lover who posts all over the internet as a Klingon. I love the guy’s work, but really, I suppose the high level of funny generated here is not surprisingly, like the true comedy in the real world, done so by a group of likely somewhat troubled people.
The Mighty Feklahr still isn’t sure if this is a compliment to Him or not. To be on the safe side, He is just going to level everything within a ten kilometer radius of RefinedEffort’s ISP to rubble.
I’ve always imagined Vince sounded like Uma Thurman in “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”.
Orci and Kurtzman are the real life Bert and Ernie.
‘Cept they fuck.
After spending an evening with Orci and Kurtzman, Ryan Gosling wished his Parents made him a brother.
Being born Mexican is like being born with a License to Steal.
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