The long-in-development 'Silver Surfer' movie may have hit choppy waters, but it hasn’t wiped out yet, according to writer J. Michael Straczynski.

In a recent interview, Straczynski claimed he wasn’t sure about the status of the Marvel Comics adaptation, after Fox announced it would be rebooting the 'Fantastic Four' film property. The writer had written a script for a 'Silver Surfer' movie that would have taken place directly after 2007’s Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.

But with the FF headed back to the drawing board (hopefully, for a darker take), Fox decided to do the same with Silver Surfer, and subsequently abandoned Straczynski’s script. As a result, his comments were about a screenplay totally unrelated to the one currently under development at Fox.

"When FF2 didn't do as well as hoped for, the script was set aside, but that has NOTHING to do with the Silver Surfer script that is NOW under development at Fox with other folks," he wrote to IGN. "As far as I know, that is proceeding apace. So the hysteria that's gripped the nets about 'ohmygod the Surfer movie is dead!' is not correct, as I was again referring to only that one specific script tied into FF2, NOT what's being done now."

The Ninja Assassin co-writer had no comment about the new screenplay, but at least his words hint that Fox does have plans for a character, who all too often finds himself left out in the cold. (He does fly around in space, after all.)