Hodson initially worked as a development executive in London for
Focus Features. Hodson's
Shut In was bought by
David Linde's
Lava Bear Films. The film, starring Naomi Watts, was directed by
Farren Blackburn and released 11 November 2016. In December 2013, Hodson's script
Seed appeared on the 2013 Black List. In September 2014,
Sony Pictures Entertainment acquired Hodson's female-centered sci-fi action script
The Eden Project, which
Tobey Maguire and Material Pictures would produce. That script later appeared on the 2014 Black List. In May 2015,
Warner Bros. hired Hodson to write the new script for
The Fugitive, based on the
1993 film of same name.
Arnold Kopelson and Anne Kopelson would be returning as producers. In June 2015, Hodson joined the team at
Paramount Pictures tasked by
Michael Bay with expanding the
Transformers universe, under supervision of
Akiva Goldsman. She wrote the script for
Bumblebee, a
Transformers film that focuses on the title character, which was released in December 2018.
Travis Knight, the director of
Kubo and the Two Strings, was the director. Hodson also co-wrote the script of the film
Unforgettable (2017) with
David Leslie Johnson, which was acquired by Warner Bros. Producer
Denise Di Novi directed the film. By October 2016, she was working on a female-centric action epic for
Nina Jacobson at
Color Force and
Fox 2000 Pictures. The next month, it was announced she would be writing the screenplay for a
Birds of Prey movie for Warner Bros., based on the
DC Comics series of the same name and centered around
Harley Quinn. The movie would later be titled,
"Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)." In January 2018, it was announced that Hodson was among another team of writers assembled by Paramount with Akiva Goldsman, this time to work on adapting the
Ology series of books alongside writers such as Lindsey Beer,
Michael Chabon,
Nicole Perlman,
Jeff Pinkner, and
Joe Robert Cole, many of whom she previously worked with in the Transformers "brain trust." In April of that same year, it was announced that she had been hired to write a
Batgirl film for Warner Bros. By July 2019, she was hired as screenwriter for the film adaptation of
The Flash by Warner Bros, with the film set to be directed by
It director
Andy Muschietti. Like
Birds of Prey, both of these films would be a part of the
DC Extended Universe (DCEU). However, the release of
Batgirl was cancelled following the
Warner Bros. Discovery merger. In November 2019, Hodson co-created The Lucky Exports Pitch Program with Morgan Howell and Margot Robbie, a program where six female identifying writers expanded their own logline or title into a screenplay. In October 2020, the six projects were announced, with Hodson set to produce each of them. In June 2020, it was announced Hodson would write the script for a new
Pirates of the Caribbean film starring
Margot Robbie. The movie was subsequently removed from the production schedule. In January 2023, Hodson had joined a
writers' room assembled by
James Gunn to map out the overarching story of the
DC Universe (DCU). In the lead up to the release of
Fast X,
Universal Pictures announced that she would co-write the eleventh installment of the
Fast & Furious franchise, which would eventually be titled
Fast Forever with
Oren Uziel. She was approached to write
The Brave and the Bold — a
Batman film directed by Muschietti, set in the DCU — in June 2023, before choosing to work on
Fast Forever. In June 2024, it was announced that
Zach Dean replaced Hodson and Uziel as the writer for
Fast Forever. In January 2026, journalist
Jeff Sneider reported that Hodson was attached to write the script to
The Brave and The Bold after the project "found its way back" to her and that she was the unnamed screenwriter whom Gunn had previously referred to. In 2025, Hodson was announced as the writer for an Untitled Firefighter Movie by
Ron Howard. Hodson is well known for her female-centric action stories. == Filmography ==