Akiva Goldsman has
announced that scribes Ken Nolan (Black Hawk Down) and Black List newcomer Geneva
Robertson have joined the Transformers writer's room, and will help bring the
franchise out of the creative slump it currently calls home.
Nolan and Robertson are the latest writers Goldsman
managed to snatch for the braintrust, which so far counts with Christina Hodson, Lindsey Beer, Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari (Ant-Man), Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead), Art Marcum and Matt Holloway (Iron Man), Zak Penn, and Jeff Pinkner (Amazing
Spider-Man 2).
Speaking of this "new"
method of storytelling, which many consider as being exploitive, Goldsman says:
There is such reciprocity between TV and movies now,
that we’re borrowing this from TV.I got a taste of this from JJ Abrams when I
came in to write an episode of Fringe, and then
Jeff Pinkner let me hang around for four years like the drunk uncle. The whole
process of the story room was really delightful, and we are seeing it more in
movies as this moves toward serialized storytelling. There are good rooms
around town, including the Monsters Room at Universal, the Star
Wars room, and of course, at Marvel. We’re trying to beg,
borrow and steal from the best of them, and gathered a group of folks
interested in developing and broadening this franchise. There is a central
corridor of movies that has been proceeding quite well, but our challenge will
be to answer, where do we go from here?
As for what will inspire the future of the franchise,
Goldsman says that it will be everything ever done in the Transformers
universe.
We will look at the
toys, the TV shows, the merchandise, everything that has been generated by
Hasbro, from popular to forgotten iterations, and establish a mythological time
line. It has been designed with a lot of visual help, toys, robots, sketches
and writers and artists. After that super saturation, the writers will figure
out not one, but numerous films that will extend the universe.
Finally, Goldsman
explained what attracted him into spearheading such a daunting project.
It just felt like
such fertile ground and a rich environment for storytelling, and there has
already been thoughtful work done long before any of us came into the room…We
will be innovative miners, and we will have fun and get to do what we imagined
this was all about when we were kids.
I've got to confess
that I actually enjoyed the first film, but the sameness that followed, added
with the dynamite set, turned a childhood favorite into a dreadful chore.
Source - Deadline
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