Add another name to the Transformers writers room

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Following his turn as showrunner on Marvel's Daredevil, Steven S. DeKnight has enlisted in Paramount and Akiva Goldsman's brain trust charged with mapping out the future of the Transformers film franchise, according to Deadline We recently learned that DeKnight would not return as showrunner for Season 2 of the acclaimed Netflix-Marvel superhero series. At the time, DeKnight tweeted he wasn't returning to Daredevil due to "a previous commitment in the feature world. Will reveal more down the road." However, DeKnight said today that Transformers isn't that project, calling Transformers "a cool project that popped up and fit my sched."Whatever treatments and scripts the writers room -- whose members also include Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman , Andrew Barrer & Gabriel Ferrari (Ant-Man), Art Marcum & Matt Holloway (Iron Man), Zak Penn (X-Men: The Last Stand), and Jeff Pinkner (The Amazing Spider-Man 2), as well as new additions Christina Hodson, Lindsey Beer, Ken Nolan (Black Hawk Down) and Geneva Robertson-Dworet -- generate must ultimately meet with the approval of the producers, series director Michael Bay, exec producer Steven Spielberg, Paramount Pictures and Hasbro.The writers room is tasked with having a script for Transformers 5 ready for director Michael Bay by the time he wraps making 13 Hours, with further Transformers projects -- possibly including rumored spinoffs include a Bumblebee solo film and a Cybertron-set origin story -- to follow.