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I thought that, when I first read this, either I had lost my mind or my wayward past had finally caught up with me.  But no…no such luck.  I was indeed reading about how Diablo “Gibberish? What Gibberish?” Cody was actually planning to stage a movie adaptation of the Sweet Valley High series of books.

For those of you not already in the know, and I only remember these because an old friend read these voraciously throughout much of high school (and if you happen to be reading this, hello Stephanie, and I hope you actually READ that copy of The Prince I gave you for graduation.), the Sweet Valley series revolved around Californian twins the Wakefields, who proceeded to engage in a pathologically ridiculous number of soap opera plots including lots of backstabbing and clandestine romances but an unsettlingly low number of chainsaw killings.  At the time, of course, I lamented that last and often got kicked in the shins for my opinion.

Early reports peg Cody as saying that her Sweet Valley movies will include the following: “Sharp comedy/satire, plenty of “sincere” SVH moments too. No werewolves. Plenty of Todd.”

Well, so much for the chainsaw killings….