‘Transformers’ writers room gets concrete plans, but is Michael Bay signed on?

How many Hollywood writers does it take to screw in a Transformers light bulb? A dozen it turns out.

Deadline reported last night that Akiva Goldsman’s Transformers writers room finished their work and the results are two different movies in the franchise. First, there’s Transformers 5, which will again feature Mark Wahlberg. Then, there will be an animated film written by Ant-Man team Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari.

In addition to Barrer and Ferrari, the writers room included 10 other writers: Ken Nolan (Black Hawk Down); Christina Hodson; Lindsey Beer; Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead); Art Marcum and Matt Holloway (Iron Man); Zak Penn; Jeff Pinker (Lost); Steven DeKnight (Daredevil); and Geneva Robertson-Dworet.

Goldsman supervised the think tank and all the writers made pitches to producer Steven Spielberg, director Michael Bay, Paramount and Hasbro. Spielberg decided that there were at least five potential ideas for movies and it appears that the experiment helped the studio map out a potential Transformers universe.

Deadline reported that Bay had actually signed on to direct T5, but he tweeted that this is not the case. He is still talking with Spielberg.

The animated Transformers movie is expected to be a prequel, focusing on the origins of Cybertron, the planet where the Transformers come from.