You may have already seen the story about Michael Bay and the other Transformers producers tasking Akiva Goldsman with assembling a writing team to hash out more films and essentially construct a shared universe for different stories to work in. Deadline reports that Ant-Man** writers Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari are joining the group.
The pair, who completed an uncredited production re-write on the Marvel movie about the shrinking superhero (based on work that Adam McKay and Paul Rudd did to Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish’s original script), joins a team that already includes Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman, Iron Man co-writers Art Marcum and Matt Holloway, Lost/Fringe man Jeff Pinkner and The Incredible Hulk’s Zak Penn.
And according to Deadline’s story, one of the big ideas being batted around is crafting an origin story for the Autobots and Decepticons that would explore their early days on Cybertron, which may end up as an animated film. But all of that is still rumour at this stage, with no official announcements made yet. What we do know is that the writers are aiming to have a fifth main Transformers script ready to shoot for when Michael Bay is finished with his Benghazi drama 13 Hours, assuming, of course, he’s ready to step back into the ring with Optimus Prime and the rest, and doesn’t stick to handing the franchise over to someone else. Who ever ends up wrangling the robots for that one, it's scheduled to arrive in 2017.