Roger Avary is hard at work on a script for the new movie, according to word from id CEO Todd Hollenshead, speaking to Eurogamer.net at Quake Con.

Apparently, the Hollywood writers' strike hit the film's somewhat, while Avary also had another commitment to handle before beginning work on the game tie-in film. Progress is now going ahead apace, however.

"With the writer's strike it took so long to get underway and Roger Avary, the writer, had a commitment that was in line before working the Wolfenstein stuff, but I've recently been in contact with Roger and he's actually working on the script right now," offered Hollenshead.

The big boss added he's yet to see work in progress himself yet, but clearly has faith in the Oscar-winning writer.

"Me kind of nagging on him 'hey is it done yet, hey is it done yet?' will probably just be annoying and then Rog won't answer my emails any more. I would probably get the one-sentence email that says, 'Do you realise I have an Academy Award?'"

By Luke Guttridge