[3] She transitioned from development executive to screenwriter in 2012 after her first screenplay, psychological thriller Shut In, made the 2012 Black List of best un-produced scripts.

[8] In June 2015, Hodson joined the team at Paramount Pictures tasked by Michael Bay with expanding the Transformers universe, under supervision of Akiva Goldsman.

[12] By October 2016, she was working on a female-centric action epic for Nina Jacobson at Color Force and Fox 2000 Pictures.

[13] 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[14] and centered around Harley Quinn.

"[15] 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.

[19] In June 2020, it was announced Hodson would write the script for a new Pirates of the Caribbean film starring Margot Robbie.

[20] In January 2023, Hodson had joined a writers' room assembled by James Gunn to map out the overarching story of the DC Universe (DCU).