Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman might not be household names just yet, but in Hollywood circles they are already famous. The screenwriting duo have won the respect of some of the biggest names in the business – Steven Spielberg, JJ Abrams and Michael Bay among them. They are in the thick of things in summer 2009, having written both Star Trek and Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen and produced Sandra Bullock comedy hit The Proposal through their rapidly expanding Kurtzman/Orci Productions. For these two 35 year olds, the future looks exceptionally bright.

But sitting in the boardroom of their office bungalow nestled in Spielberg’s hillside Amblin compound on the Universal lot, the two young writer-producers explain that their ascent was slow and methodical.