Alex Kurtzman

Alexander Hilary Kurtzman (born September 7, 1973) is an American filmmaker. He is best known for co-writing the scripts to Transformers (2007), Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009), Star Trek (2009), Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) with his writing and producing partner Roberto Orci, and directing and co-writing The Mummy (2017). He made his directorial debut with People Like Us (2012), co-written alongside Orci and Jody Lambert.  Kurtzman is known, alongside Orci, for frequently collaborating with Michael Bay and J.J. Abrams and co-creating the TV series Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Picard, and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alex Kurtzman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

Untitled Star Trek Live-Action Comedy

Untitled Star Trek Live-Action Comedy

An all-new live-action series, as announced at San Diego Comic-Con. Set in the 25th century and it revolves around Federation Outsiders serving on “a gleaming resort planet.”

Release Date: 2026-01-01

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 1

Now You See Me 3

A third installment of the 'Now You See Me' franchise. Plot TBA.

Release Date: 2025-11-12

Department: Production

Job: Producer

4.8

Star Trek: Section 31

Emperor Philippa Georgiou joins a secret division of Starfleet tasked with protecting the United Federation of Planets and faces the sins of her past.

Release Date: 2025-01-15

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 183

Mother Mother

In the heart of rural Somalia, widowed mother Qalifo and her son, Asad, labor as camel herders. However, Asad has his heart set on a life in town with Ifrah, the girl of his dreams. When a young American visitor declares his love for Ifrah, the rivalry leads to murder, and Qalifo weighs in with a shocking choice that transforms all of their lives.

Release Date: 2024-09-06

Department: Production

Job: Producer

6.4

Rob Peace

An underprivileged, gifted young black man from Newark reaches Yale University, only for shadows and injustices from his past to threaten his future.

Release Date: 2024-08-02

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 39

7.7

Star Trek: Picard - The IMAX Live Series Finale Event

Get ready to send off Jean-Luc Picard and his crew in style! On Wednesday, April 19, experience the last two episodes of Star Trek: Picard in IMAX, followed by a live-streamed Q&A with the cast of the show. In the epic, thrilling conclusion of "Star Trek: Picard," a desperate message from a long-lost friend draws Starfleet legend Admiral Jean-Luc Picard into the most daring mission of his life, forcing him to recruit allies spanning generations old and new. This final adventure sets him on a collision course with the legacy of his past and explosive, new revelations that will alter the fate of the Federation forever.

Release Date: 2023-04-19

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 9

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
8.1

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Follow Captain Christopher Pike, Science Officer Spock and Number One in the years before Captain Kirk boarded the U.S.S. Enterprise, as they explore new worlds around the galaxy.

Release Date: 2022-05-05

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 20

Vote Count: 578

The Man Who Fell to Earth
7.4

The Man Who Fell to Earth

An extraterrestrial alien arrives on Earth at a turning point in human evolution and must confront his own past to determine our future.

Release Date: 2022-04-24

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 10

Vote Count: 175

Star Trek: Prodigy
7.3

Star Trek: Prodigy

A motley crew of young rebellious aliens commandeer an old Starfleet ship and must figure out how to work together while navigating a greater galaxy, in search for a better future. These six young outcasts know nothing about the ship they have commandeered, but over the course of their adventures together, they will each be introduced to Starfleet and the ideals it represents.

Release Date: 2021-10-28

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 39

Vote Count: 154

Clarice
6.9

Clarice

In 1993, six months after the events of The Silence of the Lambs, FBI Agent Clarice Starling returns to the field to pursue serial murderers and sexual predators while navigating the high stakes political world of Washington, D.C.

Release Date: 2021-02-11

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 13

Vote Count: 242

The Comey Rule
6.9

The Comey Rule

An immersive, behind-the-headlines account of the historically turbulent events surrounding the 2016 presidential election and its aftermath, which divided a nation. This two-part biopic tells the story of two powerful figures, Comey and Trump, whose strikingly different personalities, ethics and loyalties put them on a collision course.

Release Date: 2020-09-27

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 66

Star Trek Day
5.5

Star Trek Day

September 8th has long been informally observed as Star Trek Day, but beginning in 2020, CBS — first through CBS All Access and then through Paramount+— began hosting Star Trek Day celebrations.

Release Date: 2020-09-08

Character: Self

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 2

Star Trek: Lower Decks
7.6

Star Trek: Lower Decks

The lives of the support crew serving on one of Starfleet's least important ships, the U.S.S. Cerritos, in 2380. Ensigns Mariner, Boimler, Rutherford and Tendi have to keep up with their duties and their social lives, often while the ship is being rocked by a multitude of sci-fi anomalies.

Release Date: 2020-08-06

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 10

Vote Count: 350

Star Trek: Picard
7.3

Star Trek: Picard

Set twenty years after the events of Star Trek Nemesis, we follow the now-retired Admiral Picard into the next chapter of his life.

Release Date: 2020-01-23

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 30

Vote Count: 1733

The Ready Room
4.0

The Ready Room

Welcome to The Ready Room. Every Thursday Wil Wheaton will sit down with members of the Star Trek: Picard cast and crew to discuss the weekly episodes.

Release Date: 2019-01-25

Character: Self

Episode Count: 4

Vote Count: 2

Star Trek: Short Treks
6.3

Star Trek: Short Treks

Each episode tells a stand-alone story that serves as an opportunity for deeper storytelling and exploration of key characters and themes that fit into Star Trek: Discovery and the expanding Star Trek universe.

Release Date: 2018-10-03

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 88

Instinct
6.9

Instinct

Dr. Dylan Reinhart, a gifted author, university professor and former CIA operative is lured back to his old life by tenacious top NYPD Detective Lizzie Needham. Though Dylan and Lizzie initially clash, when it comes to catching killers, they make an ideal team.

Release Date: 2018-03-18

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 13

Vote Count: 120

Star Trek: Discovery
7.1

Star Trek: Discovery

Follow the voyages of Starfleet on their missions to discover new worlds and new life forms, and one Starfleet officer who must learn that to truly understand all things alien, you must first understand yourself.

Release Date: 2017-09-24

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 6

Vote Count: 1820

Salvation
6.6

Salvation

An MIT grad student and a tech superstar bring a low-level Pentagon official a staggering discovery that an asteroid is just six months away from colliding with Earth.

Release Date: 2017-07-12

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 13

Vote Count: 403

5.5

The Mummy

Though safely entombed in a crypt deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient queen whose destiny was unjustly taken from her is awakened in our current day, bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia, and terrors that defy human comprehension.

Release Date: 2017-06-06

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 7265

6.8

Now You See Me 2

One year after outwitting the FBI and winning the public’s adulation with their mind-bending spectacles, the Four Horsemen resurface only to find themselves face to face with a new enemy who enlists them to pull off their most dangerous heist yet.

Release Date: 2016-06-02

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 10806

Limitless
7.3

Limitless

Brian Finch's life takes an extraordinary turn when he uses NZT-48, a neuroenhancing drug whose mystery and chaos lead him to working for the FBI and a senator who is not what he seems.

Release Date: 2015-09-22

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 22

Vote Count: 854

Scorpion
8.2

Scorpion

Eccentric genius Walter O’Brien and his team of brilliant misfits comprise the last line of defense against complex, high-tech threats of the modern age. As Homeland Security’s new think tank, O’Brien’s “Scorpion” team includes Toby Curtis, an expert behaviorist who can read anyone; Happy Quinn, a mechanical prodigy; and Sylvester Dodd, a statistics guru.

Release Date: 2014-09-22

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 93

Vote Count: 4011

Matador
4.9

Matador

Matador chronicles the unlikely rise of Tony "Matador" Bravo, a popular soccer star who comes to be known as much for his playboy antics off the field as his dynamic moves on it. But what his fans and family don't realize is that it's all a cover—in truth, he is a skilled covert operative executing missions for a little-known branch of the CIA. “Matador” has the kind of fame and notoriety that affords him access to powerful circles of corruption and villainy. But, in balancing the dueling roles in which he's been cast, he will be forced to confront the question of his true identity… and it is this mission which will prove to be his most dangerous.

Release Date: 2014-07-15

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 13

Vote Count: 13

6.5

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

For Peter Parker, life is busy. Between taking out the bad guys as Spider-Man and spending time with the person he loves, Gwen Stacy, high school graduation cannot come quickly enough. Peter has not forgotten about the promise he made to Gwen’s father to protect her by staying away, but that is a promise he cannot keep. Things will change for Peter when a new villain, Electro, emerges, an old friend, Harry Osborn, returns, and Peter uncovers new clues about his past.

Release Date: 2014-04-16

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 13387

6.6

Ender's Game

Based on the classic novel by Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game is the story of the Earth's most gifted children training to defend their homeplanet in the space wars of the future.

Release Date: 2013-10-24

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 5869

8.0

Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters - Predacons Rising

Autobots, Decepticons, Predaking and Predacons form an unlikely alliance to battle a resurrected Unicron.

Release Date: 2013-10-04

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 127

Sleepy Hollow
7.4

Sleepy Hollow

Ichabod Crane is resurrected and pulled two and a half centuries through time to unravel a mystery that dates all the way back to the founding fathers.

Release Date: 2013-09-16

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 1050

7.3

Now You See Me

An FBI agent and an Interpol detective track a team of illusionists who pull off bank heists during their performances and reward their audiences with the money.

Release Date: 2013-05-29

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 15636

7.3

Star Trek Into Darkness

When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis. With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction. As our heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew.

Release Date: 2013-05-05

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 9160

6.8

People Like Us

After flying home to L.A. for the funeral of his estranged record-producer father, a struggling man 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.

Release Date: 2012-06-29

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 619

5.6

Cowboys & Aliens

A stranger stumbles into the desert town of Absolution with no memory of his past and a futuristic shackle around his wrist. With the help of mysterious beauty Ella and the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde, he finds himself leading an unlikely posse of cowboys, outlaws, and Apache warriors against a common enemy from beyond this world in an epic showdown for survival.

Release Date: 2011-07-29

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 5081

6.9

Locke & Key

Three children become the caretakers of a New England mansion that is home to a bevy of secrets and magic.

Release Date: 2011-01-01

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 35

Transformers: Prime
8.0

Transformers: Prime

Roll out with Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Arcee, Ratchet, Bulkhead, and the rest of the heroic Autobots as they battle the evil Decepticons. Now that big bad Megatron has returned with a mysterious and dangerous element, Team Prime must prepare for an epic battle.

Release Date: 2010-11-26

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 65

Vote Count: 440

Hawaii Five-0
7.8

Hawaii Five-0

Steve McGarrett returns home to Oahu, in order to find his father's killer. The governor offers him the chance to run his own task force (Five-0). Steve's team is joined by Chin Ho Kelly, Danny "Danno" Williams, and Kono Kalakaua.

Release Date: 2010-09-20

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 4

Vote Count: 1750

6.8

The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen

The definitive feature-length documentary on the creation of "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen".

Release Date: 2009-10-20

Character: Self

Vote Count: 5

6.2

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Sam Witwicky leaves the Autobots behind for a normal life. But when his mind is filled with cryptic symbols, the Decepticons target him and he is dragged back into the Transformers' war.

Release Date: 2009-06-19

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 8590

7.2

The Proposal

When she learns she's in danger of losing her visa status and being deported, overbearing book editor Margaret Tate forces her put-upon assistant, Andrew Paxton, to marry her.

Release Date: 2009-06-02

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 6952

7.4

Star Trek

The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of bitter rivals. One, James Kirk, is a delinquent, thrill-seeking Iowa farm boy. The other, Spock, a Vulcan, was raised in a logic-based society that rejects all emotion. As fiery instinct clashes with calm reason, their unlikely but powerful partnership is the only thing capable of leading their crew through unimaginable danger, boldly going where no one has gone before. The human adventure has begun again.

Release Date: 2009-05-06

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 9944

6.5

Eagle Eye

Jerry Shaw and Rachel Holloman are two strangers whose lives are suddenly thrown into turmoil by a mysterious woman they have never met. Threatening their lives and family, the unseen caller uses everyday technology to control their actions and push them into increasing danger. As events escalate, Jerry and Rachel become the country's most-wanted fugitives and must figure out what is happening to them.

Release Date: 2008-09-25

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 2879

Fringe
8.1

Fringe

FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham, brilliant but formerly institutionalized scientist Walter Bishop and his scheming, reluctant son Peter uncover a deadly mystery involving a series of unbelievable events and realize they may be a part of a larger, more disturbing pattern that blurs the line between science fiction and technology.

Release Date: 2008-09-09

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 6

Vote Count: 2520

6.8

Transformers

Young teenager Sam Witwicky becomes involved in the ancient struggle between two extraterrestrial factions of transforming robots – the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons. Sam holds the clue to unimaginable power and the Decepticons will stop at nothing to retrieve it.

Release Date: 2007-06-27

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 11424

The Dialogue: An Interview with Screenwriters Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci

Poised to become one of the most successful screenwriting teams in Hollywood, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci are certainly in striking position. A team who became just that after meeting in high school, they have frequently collaborated with writer-director J.J. Abrams and director Michael Bay. As a team their screenwriting credits include The Island, The Legend of Zorro, Mission: Impossible III and the upcoming Star Trek XI.

Release Date: 2007-06-21

Character: Himself

6.7

Mission: Impossible III

Retired from active duty, and training recruits for the Impossible Mission Force, agent Ethan Hunt faces the toughest foe of his career: Owen Davian, an international broker of arms and information, who's as cunning as he is ruthless. Davian emerges to threaten Hunt and all that he holds dear – including the woman Hunt loves.

Release Date: 2006-04-25

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Character: Party Guest (uncredited)

Vote Count: 6904

6.1

The Legend of Zorro

Despite trying to keep his swashbuckling to a minimum, a threat to California's pending statehood causes the adventure-loving Don Alejandro de la Vega and his wife, Elena, to take action.

Release Date: 2005-10-24

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 2902

6.7

The Island

In 2019, Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly "Utopian" but contained facility. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully-controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to The Island — reportedly the last uncontaminated location on the planet. But Lincoln soon discovers that everything about his existence is a lie.

Release Date: 2005-07-21

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 5423

Matt Helm

Feature film based on Donald Hamilton's series of spy novels about a counter- assassination agent who's sent on missions to stop other spies.

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Alias
6.7

Alias

Sydney Bristow, an agent who has been tricked to believe she is working for the U.S. government, is actually working for a criminal organization named the Alliance of Twelve. Upon learning this, Sydney becomes a double agent for the real CIA.

Release Date: 2001-09-30

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 10

Vote Count: 639

Jack of All Trades
7.4

Jack of All Trades

Jack of All Trades is a half-hour long syndicated action-comedy television series which ran for two seasons in 2000. With Cleopatra 2525, it formed the Back2Back Action Hour and both shows were notable for being the first American non-animated action series to be produced in the half-hour format since the 1970s. The show was canceled in the middle of its second season. The program is set at the turn of the 19th century on the fictional French-controlled island of Pulau-Pulau in the East Indies. Jack Stiles is an American secret agent sent there by President Jefferson. While there, he meets his British contact and love interest, English spy Emilia Rothschild. Together, the two work to stop Napoleon and various other threats to the United States. To the public, Jack is seen as Emilia's attaché, but when the need arises, he transforms into a masked hero: The Daring Dragoon. The show contained many on-going gags, such as deliberate historical inaccuracies, Jack being responsible for many important historical events but not receiving credit, Emilia inventing a miraculous invention in an obvious deus ex machina, sexual puns and innuendos, and Jack and Emilia's ongoing romantic tension.

Release Date: 2000-01-22

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 22

Vote Count: 27

Xena: Warrior Princess
7.5

Xena: Warrior Princess

Xena is an infamous warrior on a quest to seek redemption for her past sins against the innocent. Accompanied by her comrade-in-arms Gabrielle, the campy couple use their formidable fighting skills to help those who are unable to defend themselves.

Release Date: 1995-09-04

Department: Writing

Job: Teleplay

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 1292

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
7.0

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys

The legendary son of Zeus journeys across the earth fighting monsters and helping people.

Release Date: 1995-01-29

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 13

Vote Count: 533

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

A young group of cadets come together to pursue a common dream of hope and optimism. Under the watchful and demanding eyes of their instructors, they will discover what it takes to become Starfleet officers as they navigate blossoming friendships, explosive rivalries, first loves and a new enemy that threatens both the Academy and the Federation itself.

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 1

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