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Well, this is awesome news. Daredevil and Spartacus showrunner (and all-around awesome guy) Steven S. DeKnight has been added to the Transformers‘ writers’ room as the ‘final member,’ according to Deadline. Can we talk about the awesomeness of Daredevil? Can we?

DeKnight joins The Walking Dead‘s Robert Kirkman, Iron Man screenwriters Art Marcum and Matt Holloway, Lost writer Jeff Pinkner, Ant-Man revisers Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari, X-Men: The Last Stand‘s Zak Penn, Christina Hodson, Lindsey Beer, Ken Nolan and Geneva Robertson-Dworet, and Akiva Goldsman, who will be developing sequels and spinoffs.

Huzzah!

 

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Jenna Busch

Jenna Busch is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Legion of Leia and has hosted and written for sites like Nerdist, ComingSoon.net, Metro, Birth. Movies. Death., IGN, AOL, Huffington Post and more. She co-hosted Cocktails With Stan with the legendary Stan Lee and has appeared on Attack of the Show, Fresh Ink, Tabletop with Wil Wheaton, in the documentary She Makes Comics, on NPR and Al Jazeera America, and has covered film/TV/gaming/comics for years. She's currently a co-host on Most Craved. She's been published in the comics anthology Womanthology, is a chapter author for Star Wars Psychology: Dark Side of the Mind, Game of Thrones Psychology and Star Trek Psychology and more, and owns a terrifying amount of swords and 20-sided dice. There are also those My Little Pony trailer voice overs that give one nightmares.