Transformers 3 Will Have New Writers!

Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtman, who wrote the first two Transformers movies will not return for the third. Transformers 3 is due to be released on July 1st, 2011 but both Orci and Kurtman have announced that they will walk away from the project to allow new writers to have a go.

This is what Orci said about it…

“We’ve been working on Transformers longer than I was in college. I feel like we have our degree in Transformers now, The studio was nice to say ‘Oh, yeah, if you guys want to come back then come back. But, we never want to do that, unless we have an idea. We always think the best idea should win, and that means opening it up for everybody.

Then Kurtzman chipped in…

“The franchise is so wonderful that it deserves to be fresh, all the time. We just felt like we’d given it a lot and didn’t have an insight for where to go with it next and said, ‘You should do it right’.”

Both Orci and Kurtzman are busying away on the sequel to Star Trek AND on the remake of Hawaii Five-O.