'Transformers 5' Spoilers: Steven Spielberg Advising Writing Team For 'Age of Extinction' Sequel? [VIDEO]

By Aisha Reese

Steven S. DeKnight, who is on the writing team of Transformers 5, talked about the process of working with an exceptional group of creative minds in a recent interview.

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The writer spoke to IGN about his experience working on the Age of Extinction sequel and how exciting it has been. While DeKnight didn't give away any spoilers and hints about how the plot was shaping up he did reveal that Steven Spielberg dropped in to see how their writing sessions were coming along, and how encouraging that was for them.

"I can't say what we plotted out, but it was all very exciting and in the next few months we'll see what moves forward and what doesn't move forward," he said. "But it was a fantastic experience. One of the best experiences of that was when Steven Spielberg popped by one afternoon to just sit and talk and hear what we were working on. Everybody was about to throw up, they were so excited."

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The writer was over the moon about how the Transformers series was taking a new approach to develop the sequels, and working in the same fashion as television does. DeKnight was especially delighted by the company he kept in the writers room.

"It's that wonderful thing where features are now taking a page from television and getting people together to really try and plan things out. It was a wonderful experience," he said. "Akiva Goldsman was fantastic and Jeff Pinkner, who's co-writing the fifth [Transformers] movie with him was phenomenal. Zak Penn... It was just a room full of brilliant, funny, amazing people. And we spent two and a half weeks in physically the best writers room I've ever seen in my life. Paramount pulled out all the stops. It was phenomenal! We laughed and joked and told stories and plotted out..."

The most recent additions to the team for Transformers 5 have been two great female writers, Christina Hodson and Lindsey Beer. Hodson has worked on films like The Fugitive, The Eden Project, and Shut In, in the past. Beer has projects like Dig, Short Circuit and How to Nail An Alien under her belt. She is currently working on the reboot of The Wizard of Oz. The other writers on the team are Zak Penn (The Incredible Hulk), Jeff Pinker (Lost), Art Marcum and Matt Holloway (Iron Man), Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead), Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari (Ant-Man), Ken Nolan (Black Hawk Down) and Geneva Robertson-Dworet.