Alex Kurtzman: Writer, Producer, Director!

Alex Kurtzman is responsible for blockbusters ranging from Star Trek (Ya!) to Transformers (Booooooo!)

Next stop is the director's chair. Vulture reports he'll make his helming debut with Welcome to People. Written by Kurtzman, his writing/producing partner-in-crime Bob Orci and documentary filmmaker Jody Lambert, the drama centers a twenty-something delivering $150,000 to an older sister and a young anger-troubled nephew he never knew existed.

Interestingly enough, Kurtzman was up for directing a number of high-profile projects including the latest Jack Ryan reboot Moscow. That makes the notion of Jonah Nolan directing Superman: The Man of Steel sound less crazy, eh? But he opted to start in the smaller route with People, a script actually penned six years ago. 

Steven Spielberg will produce for DreamWorks and casting is expected to start up in the not-too-distant future.

But rest assured, fellas, this doesn't affect Star Trek 2.