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That’s it.

I’m going to Olive Garden after this.  The lure of Bellini tea and Neverending Pasta Bowl is entirely too necessary now.

See, I just got a good look at Joel Silver’s plans for the next few years, and I couldn’t be much more horrified if I tried.

The plan, shockingly enough, includes–and you’re going to want to be sitting down for this–a He-man movie, a Wonder Woman movie, the fifth installment of Lethal Weapon  and at least a dozen others.  Including, in the possibly most disturbing news of all, yet another Swamp Thing remake.

Considering that one of those is a sequel, and the rest are comic book properties that we know of, it’s not exactly the best of plans.  Though I do admit, I enjoyed the Lethal Weapon series and wouldn’t mind seeing another one (but isn’t Danny Glover REALLY getting too old for this?), and comic book / cartoon properties DO have the potential to be entertaining, I’m a little worried about the overall slate.  It’s just a little too heavy on the tried-and-true and short shrift given to innovation.

This isn’t surprising, of course, given the nature of Hollywood, but it’s no less disheartening to see it in practice.