According to IGN Filmforce, the script for the upcoming live action Transformers movie is done, and ready to be redone! Wait a minute, shouldn’t they have started filming this by now?

In a post this morning on his blog, screenwriter John Rogers announced that he’s turned in his first draft of Transformers and is now officially unemployed. He’s no longer a part of Transformers movie. He did hold out the possibility that he could be brought back for future rewrites, but in light of the announcement that follows, it seems unlikely.

It’s unlikely, because IGN reports that two new writers have already been hired to take over. Whether they’re just polishing up Rogers draft, or somehow starting from scratch is unclear. But unless he turned in something spectacularly horrid, rewrites would seem most likely. The men with the transforming pens are Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, two guys known mainly for writing “Alias” and “Xena” episodes… something that apparently every screenwriter must now do as a prelude to writing movies. It’s like the “Saturday Night Live” of genre movies. As a springboard, “Alias” must work pretty well since they’re also credited with having written upcoming movies The Island, The Legend of Zorro, and Mission Impossible III.

At least they're an upgrade from Rogers, whose most noteworthy previous achievment was penning Catwoman. Still, the sooner this Transformers movie starts filming the better. I have this nagging feeling that it's going to end up a casualty of development hell.