'Bumblebee' screenwriter Christina Hodson is shaping Hollywood's blockbuster future — and centering female stories
LOS ANGELES - Movie-mad "Bumblebee" screenwriter Christina Hodson returns on more than one occasion to the subject of Linda Hamilton's awesomeness in "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" as we chat over tea and scones made from scratch in her Los Angeles home.
And who among the Sarah Connor-worshiping faithful can blame her? Hodson's lifelong love of film turned into a career when she took a leap and penned her first script just seven years ago: "In my heart," she smiles, "I always wanted to write 'T2.'"
The London native grew up a fanatic for action movies and wearing out her VHS collection, gravitating toward the big explosions, bombastic set pieces, and epic emotions of American big-budget blockbusters - exactly the kind of movies she's now making her specialty as one of the exciting new voices shaping Hollywood's future.
In 2011 after switching tracks from a career in development to screenwriting, three of
