Eleven writers will join Akiva Goldsman at a specially prepared work space on Monday to begin work on fleshing out the Transformers universe, according to Deadline.  The space sounds like a Transformers nerd’s dream; it’s "designed to be immersive with a strong sense of the franchise history," Goldsman said, and will include the toys, TV shows, merchandise, everything in the history of the property "from popular to forgotten iterations."

The group will establish a mythological time line and come up with numerous films to extend the franchise.  Each of the twelve writers, including Goldsman, will leave with a treatment to write, some of which will be developed into scripts.

Six writers have been added since the original five:  Ken Nolan (Black Hawk Down, The Company), Geneva Robertson-Dworet (nothing produced), Christina Hodson (Shut In, for 2016), Lindsey Beer (nothing produced), Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari (Ant-Man).  They join Robert Kirkman (Walking Dead, see "Kirkman on 'Transformers'"), Art Marcum & Matt Holloway (Iron Man), Zak Penn (Incredible Hulk, Avengers), and Jeff PInkner (Amazing Spider-Man 2).

The team’s scripts will ultimately have to please Paramount, Transformers director Michael Bay, executive producer Steven Spielberg, Hasbro, and the film’s producers.

Goldsman compared the effort to other film franchise writers’ rooms already in operation, for the Universal Monsters, Star Wars, and Marvel, but said that he was really shooting for something like the great TV writers’ rooms, an affinity he developed while working on Fringe for J.J. Abrams.