Variety is reporting that even though the Hollywood studios stockpiled screenplays in anticipation of a writers' strike, studio moguls are worried about spending millions on films that won't have the last minute script polishing often demanded by actors who don't like all their lines or directors who feel a sequence isn't working.  While according to Variety the new X-Files film (reportedly titled Done One) is set to go into production next month for a July 2008 release (see 'X-Files Date Set'), and Dreamworks has already started preliminary work on Transformers 2, other major genre projects including Warner Brothers' JLA movie (see 'Miller Musters Young Americans') as well as its new Terminator: Salvation (see 'He's Baaack') and its live action Jetsons features are still in limbo.

The JLA movie remains uncast, and according to Variety could be in trouble if the strike lasts past February.  Many roles in Fox's Wolverine movie also remain unfilled, but Fox is moving full speed ahead on the project since Hugh Jackman is set in the key role of Wolverine. 

Paramount also appears set on beginning filming on a $100 million G.I. Joe movie in February.  According to Variety the studio commissioned four 'A-list' writers, Stuart Beattie (3:10 to Yuma), John Lee Hancock (A Perfect World), Brian Koppelman (Frankie Machine), and David Levien (Ocean's Thirteen) to collaborate on a G.I. Joe script and is happy with the result.

Also on track, according to Variety, is the next James Bond film.