Alex Kurtzman is best known as one-half of the screenwriting team of Kurtzman-and-(Roberto) Orci, who have gone from writing “Hercules: The Legendary Journeys” to working on some of the biggest sci-fi tentpoles in Hollywood, such as “Transformers” and “Star Trek.”

Now Kurtzman is entering the director’s world with “Welcome to People,” a family drama set up at DreamWorks.

Kurtzman wrote the script six years ago with Orci and Jody Lambert, a documentary filmmaker who made 2008’s “Of All the Things.”

Kurtzman has been making it known that he would like to direct and was fielding offers, even getting on the shortlist to direct the Jack Ryan action movie at Paramount. However, he decided to check his geek cred at the door to focus on a drama that focuses on a complicated relationship between three people.

“People” centers on a twentysomething man who, after the death of his father, must deliver $150,000 in cash to an alcoholic sister he didn’t know he had as well as her son, a 12-year-old with major anger management issues (at one point, he tries to blow up his middle school’s pool). The man doesn’t want to part with the money but still reaches out to them without telling them who he really is.

Kurtzman and Orci are producing via their DreamWorks-based Paper Products. Bobby Cohen is also producing.

The project was recently set up, and no start has been set. Kurtzman and Orci are one of the busiest writer-producers in town, juggling both film and TV worlds. The guys are launching CBS’ remake of “Hawaii Five-0” and are shopping an adaptation of graphic novel “Locke & Key.” On the film side, the CAA-repped duo wrote “Cowboys & Aliens,” now in production in New Mexico, and are working on the “Star Trek” sequel.

Kurtzman’s directing project was first reported by Vulture.