TRANSFORMERS Writers' Room Adds Two Women To The Mix

Not long ago, word came out that Paramount had hired more writers for the Transformers franchise writers' room that's being overseen by Batman & Robin writer Akiva Goldsman. The production writers (read: uncredited) writers of Ant-Man were added to the team, bringing the membership to: Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead), Art Marcum & Matt Holloway (Iron Man), Jeff Pinkner (The Amazing Spider-Man 2), Zak Penn (The Incredible Hulk), and Andrew Barrer & Gabriel Ferrari (Ant-Man). You may notice that all of those people are men, and that caused a bit of a stir last week.

Now Deadline says the studio has hired Christina Hodson and Lindsey Beer, two women, to join the braintrust. Hodson, a three-time Black List writer, is penning Warner Bros.' "new installment" of The Fugitive, while Beer studied neuroscience at Stanford and has a ton of still-unproduced screenplays that sound strong, including a family adventure at Disney called Dig and an R-rated genre comedy called How To Nail An Alien.

These women bring some much-needed perspective to a franchise that has historically treated ladies pretty poorly, but no amount of writing is going to stop Michael Bay from leering at women with his camera. The fifth Transformers film is being prepped for his return as he finishes 13 Hours, and there's been talk of a Bumblebee spin-off and an animated prequel as well, so prepare to be inundated with more robots in disguise over the next few years.