Akiva Goldsman Writing 'Transformers 5,' Animated Cybertron Origin Movie In The Works

OK, lets give at least a little bit of credit to the “Transformers” writing room, if only for being an experiment much more interesting than we expected. Turns out they paid a lot of writers a lot of money not to write a bunch of movies, but to sequester themselves for several weeks and refine pitches for possible “Transformers” sequels, prequels, spin-offs, and connected movies. Hey, at least its a different approach, and Hollywood generally doesn’t shake things up like that.

The dream team of writers — the ensemble includes producer/writer/“showrunner” Akiva Goldsman, Robert Kirkman (the creator of “The Walking Dead”), Zak Penn (“Pacific Rim 2”), Steven DeKnight (“Daredevil” season one showrunner and “Spartacus" creator), Art Marcum and Matt Holloway (“Iron Man”), Christina Hodson (the new "Fugitive" movie), Lindsey Beer ("How To Nail An Alien"), Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari (“Ant-Man”), Jeff Pinkner (“Lost,” “Amazing Spider-Man...