Everything Old is New Again

Upcoming movie adaptation/sequel/reboot releases, off the top of my head:

The Avengers
Green Lantern
The Amazing Spider-man
Thor
Pirates of the Caribbean 5: On Stranger Tides
The Dark Knight Rises
Untitled Superman Reboot
X-Men: First Class
Captain America
Transformers 3: The Dark of the Moon
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2

That's eleven movies. I didn't look any of them up but literally wrote them down as they came to me. Granted, I read a lot of film news, but still this a pretty sizable list of movies that are based off existing material. I'm not commenting on the potential quality of the films but the mere fact that there are so many non-original stories that are being developed into movies.

I'm sure I've stated before that some of my favorite movies are book adaptations. And generally I like comic book and graphic novel movie adaptations. They're modern day myths that feature comfortingly familiar archetypes, and Hollywood is forever taking an old concept and putting a modern twist on it. History repeats itself and follows a path like a spring or spiral: going forward yet making revolutions that echo events of the past...something like that; I apologize for being too lazy to write a better explanation. But these stories are as old as time and I don't entirely begrudge the fact that they're being retold again in movie form.

Oh, and I remembered a bunch of fairy tale movie adaptations:
Red Riding Hood, coming out this year with Amanda Seyfried and maybe a werewolf romance?
Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, which will feature Gemma Arterton and Jeremy Renner as the titular characters but in adult form, and (you guessed it) hunting witches
Snow White, with Julia Roberts as the Evil Queen
Jack the Giant Killer, with Nicholas Hoult as Jack

(Good God, I really should spend less time on movie-related websites.)

Like I said, I like these stories but we movie-viewers are getting absolutely deluged with them. The directors and talent behind these stories is promising, but I'm still dubious about this trend and curious as to when it will pass.