Alex Kurtzman wrote the screenplay for the 2005filmThe Island. 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Films are produced by recording actual people and objects with cameras, or by creating them using animation techniques and/or special effects. ... The Island is a sci-fi film first released by DreamWorks SKG on July 22, 2005 (see 2005 in film). ...
AlexKurtzman: I think virtually it's about what it means to be a human, and what makes us make the decision that we make in life, why we gravitate towards love.
AlexKurtzman: It was the first thing that we felt very strongly about because for us revealing to the audience before the characters know what's going on would have been the equivalent of telling the audience that Neo lived in the matrix before Neo found out that he lived in the matrix.
AlexKurtzman: And with the moth, we actually came up with the moth to explain how he would be led by something towards wherever it came from, and initially the idea was that he would be led toward light, because the moth would be going towards some kind of light.
Screenwriter AlexKurtzman is co-writing, along with Roberto Orci, the script for the as-yet-untitled 11th Star Trek feature film, slated for release in 2008.
Kurtzman's involvement in "Star Trek XI" was announced April 21, 2006, two weeks prior to the release of his last big-screen project, "Mission: Impossible III."
Kurtzman and Orci met in high school and became prolific co-writers of numerous adolescent screenplays.