The director, writer and producer of television films Alexander Hilary Kurtzman He was born on September 7, 1973 in the city of Los Angeles (California), in the United States.
After high school, where he met and befriended his future collaborators Roberto Orci, Alex studied at Wesleyan University.
Kurtzman and Orci started out as writers on the cult series “Hercules: The Legendary Journeys“In the series’ first season, in 1998, the protagonist Kevin Sorbo suffered a stroke. The producers needed arguments to keep the series without its main star, so Alex and Orci contributed many original ideas, such as transforming Hercules into a pig in an episode called “Porkules”. They soon found themselves in charge of all the scripts for the show. They were both only 24 years old at the time.
After writing scripts for different episodes of the series “Xena, the warrior princess“,”The king of cheats” Y “Alias“; his big break came when, again with Orci, they were hired by DreamWorks to rewrite the script for the feature film”The island“(2005), for the director”Michael Bay. The film, starring Scarlett Johansson and Ewan McGregor, was not a huge success, grossing $ 162 million on an estimated budget of $ 126 million.
The Kurtzman-Orci team continued his career by writing the scripts for the hit “The legend of Zorro“(2005) and”Mission impossible 3“(2006); then DreamWorks hired them again to write the next film to be directed by Michael Bay,”Transformers“.
Released in 2007, “Transformers“It immediately became a box office hit, grossing more than $ 700 million.
A year later, in collaboration with director JJ Abrams, Kurtzman and Orci premiered the television series “Fringe“, released in 2008 and is currently broadcasting its fifth season.
The prolific duo is also the author of other hits such as feature films “Star trek“(2009),”Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen“(2009) and”Cowboys & Aliens“(2011); in addition to the scripts of the television series”Hawaii Five-0“.
Recently Kurtzman has made his debut as director of a feature film, it was about the film “People Like Us “(2012), starring Chris Pine and Elizabeth Banks and had a budget of 16 million dollars.
In his personal life, Kurtzman He is married to the writer Samantha Counter.