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Robert Kirkman Will Write One of the Transformers Movies


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The Walking Dead creator is one of several writers coming onboard Akiva Goldsman’s expansion of the Bayformers movie universe, and will write either a sequel or a spin-off, which we can only hope will feature zombie Shia LaBeouf getting shot in the head by a Predacon played by Norman Reedus.

Other writers recruited to the shared universe include Incredible Hulk movie scribe Zak Penn, Iron Man and Punisher: War Zone team Art Marcum & Matt Holloway, and Jeff Pinkner (one of four credited writers on Amazing Spider-Man 2). In other words, “a bunch of people who’ve written Marvel stuff that we want to copy because we’re doing that thing that they do, a shared something-or-other,” and “That Walking Dead guy whose success we’d like to replicate.”

I admit Kirkman’s an interesting choice – but even speaking as one who likes some of the Transformers movies, I’m well aware the writing is almost totally irrelevant. Maybe he’ll at least make the inevitable robot dick jokes actually funny.