Hasbro Cinematic Universe Writers Room Enlists Marvel Studios Writers and More!

Hasbro Cinematic Universe writers room enlists Marvel Studios writers and more!

Development continues on the Hasbro Cinematic Universe at Paramount Pictures and The Hollywood Reporter brings word that the franchise’s writers room has taken shape with a number of notable writers.

Akiva Goldsman, who previously headed up the Transformers franchise writers room, will oversee the room which includes: Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize winner for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and screenwriter for Spider-Man 2 and John Carter; Brian K. Vaughan, Eisner award winning writer of comics Y: The Last Man and Saga; Nicole Perlman, co-writer of Guardians of the Galaxy and Captain Marvel; Cheo Coker, showrunner of Marvel’s Luke Cage; John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, directors of Vacation and writers of Spider-Man: Homecoming; Joe Robert Cole, Black Panther and American Crime Story: The People vs. OJ Simpson writer; Jeff Pinker, writer of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and The Dark Tower; Lindsey Beer, a member of the Transformers writing room and screenwriter of Kingkiller Chronicle; Nicole Riegel, writer of Blacklist script Dogfight; and Geneva Robertson, one of the writers of the Tomb Raider reboot.

“We first and foremost put together a list of writers who we wanted to be in business with and could be the worldbuilders that we needed,” Hasbro CCO Stephen Davis said. “But we want to be sure that in the room we have diverse perspectives, diverse backgrounds, and diverse experiences.”

The franchises set to be the groundwork for the Hasbro Cinematic Universe are G.I. Joe, Micronauts, Visionaries, M.A.S.K. and ROM: SpaceKnight. Paramount and Allspark Pictures (Hasbro’s film label) will produce all of the films with the writer’s room set to convene for the first time on Monday.

While audiences are already familiar with “G.I. Joe” after the two moderately successful films, G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra in 2009 followed by G.I. Joe: Retaliation in 2013, you might need a refresher on the others if you were born after 1990. “ROM” started as a robotic toy kit from Parker Brothers (now a Hasbro subsidiary) and achieved a cult popularity thanks to a Marvel comic book series about a human who volunteers to transform himself into a robotic spaceknight to defend the planet Galador from invading Dire Wraiths. “M.A.S.K.” (Mobile Armored Strike Kommand) was a Kenner product that spawned a one-season Saturday morning cartoon series about a special advanced task force that fights a criminal organization called V.E.N.O.M. (Vicious Evil Network of Mayhem). Another one-and-done animated series was based around “Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light,” which also became an unsuccessful line of Hasbro action figures that had holograms on their chests and staffs to represent their supernatural magic abilities. The “Micronauts” toys were originally launched in Japan as “Microman” but were re-imagined for America by Mego toys and in a Marvel Comics series as subatomic-sized warriors.

There is no word on whether the long-term plan is to integrate this universe with the Transformers universe, of which three more films are already planned, or if there is potential to reboot failed cinematic Hasbro properties like Battleship or Jem and the Holograms, though if these initial characters translate well, the sky’s the limit.

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