by Ramona Zacharias
Alex Kurtzman looks for the Lego click.
At a mere 40 years of age, Alex Kurtzman is a powerful creative force in Hollywood. In the last seven years alone, he and longtime writing/producing partner Roberto Orci have brought us the Transformers and Star Trek films, not to mention small-screen successes such as Fringe and Hawaii Five-O. In 2011, Forbes magazine named the duo “Hollywood’s Secret Weapons” in light of the billions of dollars their films have generated in a very short period of time. With the success of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and remakes of The Mummy and Van Helsing underway, Kurtzman and Orci’s starpower shows no signs of dwindling.
2013 saw yet another successful project for the pair: Fox’s primetime series Sleepy Hollow, which premiered last September and was co-created by Kurtzman, Oric, Len Wiseman and Phillip Iscove. Starring Tom Mison, Nicole Beharie, Orlando Jones and Katia Winter, this modern adaptation of Washington Irving’s short story has Ichabod Crane (Mison) and the Headless Horseman brought back from the dead in the present-day fictitious small town of Sleepy Hollow. Obviously bewildered by his surroundings but determined to learn about his past, Crane joins forces with local police lieutenant Abbie Mills (Beharie) to untangle the mysteries surrounding his resurrection and stop the decapitated horror, who, as it turns out, is just one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and about to kickstart the End of Days.
