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Transformers Adds Female Writers Amid Calls for Diversity

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The Transformers franchise's creative team has reportedly hired two female screenwriters just days after being criticized by some in the media for solely hiring white male screenwriters as members of its "brain trust."

Christina Hodson and Lindsey Beer will help create Transformers spinoffs and sequels under the supervision of Akiva Goldsman, reports Deadline.

A three-time Black List honoree, Hodson scripted the upcoming Naomi Watts film Shut In and her spec script The Eden Project was purchased by Sony.

Beer penned scripts for a Short Circuit reboot, the edgy comedy How To Nail An Alien, and a Wizard of Oz re-imagining for Warner Bros. Deadline adds that Beer "studied neuroscience and the intersection of technology and society at Stanford."

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