The ridiculousness that is the ever-expanding Transformers shared universe just expanded a little bit today. Not only are The Walking Dead‘s Robert Kirkman and several other franchise writers involved, but two more of Marvel’s own have been welcomed into the hold, according to Deadline.
Joss Whedon? James Gunn? No, not any of the “big whigs,” per se, but some of the Disney company’s more recent “fixers” brought on to readjust Edgar Wright’s Ant-Man script — Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari:
[Barrer and Ferrari], who spent half a year doing the production rewriting on Marvel’s Ant-Man, have become the latest to join the writers room that Paramount Pictures and director Michael Bay have organized to hatch sequels, prequels and spinoffs on their billion-dollar Transformers franchise.
Fun fact: these two fellas are attached to the 2017 film adaptation of the Sabrina the Teenage Witch television show.
Meanwhile, the report also claims that “one of the ideas in the works has a working title of Transformers One and that it is more or less an origins story that takes place on Cybertron.” If true, this means that one of the many writers working in Goldsman’s Transformers brain trust is developing an origin story movie for the whole shebang.
(Via Deadline)
