Paramount Setting Up Writers Rooms To Decide Future of G.I. JOE and MICRONAUTS Franchises

Not long ago, Paramount Pictures took a page from the TV production playbook and created a writers room to generate ideas for the future of the Transformers franchise. Batman & Robin and A Beautiful Mind writer Akiva Goldsman led the group, and the result of the studio's efforts was coming up with at least five viable ideas for upcoming movies. It looks like Paramount liked how the writers room idea turned out, because they've hired Goldsman to oversee new rooms for G.I. Joe and Micronauts, two more Hasbro properties the studio is hoping will make big money for them down the line.

Deadline reports that because Goldsman has been brought on as the overlord of these new rooms, he will no longer write the screenplay for Transformers 5 as previously planned. Paramount is now talking with writers room participants Art Marcum and Matt Holloway (Iron Man) and Black Hawk Down writer Ken Nolan in the hopes that the three of them will write the script together.

There's no word yet on who will be a part of the G.I. Joe and Micronauts writers rooms, but it wouldn't be much of a stretch to imagine Goldsman bringing back many of the same people he worked with in the Transformers room. Those people included The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman, Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari, Christina Hodson, Lindsay Beer, Daredevil showrunner Steven S. DeKnight, Geneva Robertson-Dworet, Zak Penn, and Jeff Pinkner.

Do you have confidence in Goldsman's abilities to oversee a team that will create good ideas for the future of these franchises? My personal take? At least he's not writing Transformers 5 anymore. (I still don't think it's going to be good, but that's a whole different article.)