Oh man…now I’ve heard just about everything a person could hear in one lifetime.  See, I was out hunting up newsy bits to pass on to you–you know how I do–and what do I find?

They’ve already half cast the FOURTH installment of Shrek.

Dubbed Shrek Forever After, it will feature one of the best parts of both The Office and Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Craig Robinson, in a heretofore unseen role known as “Cookie”.  Whether that’s a reference to a chef, as in one of Jim Varney’s last roles in the Disney movie Atlantis, or a reference to a baked good in the style of Shrek character The Gingerbread Man, it’s not yet known either way.

The rest of the cast, at last report, is pretty much the same, meaning that Mike Myers et al are about to get their hands on a whole lot of fat loot for sitting around reading a script into a microphone.  Again.

I’ll be honest, the third one really wasn’t that great.  It didn’t have the same unique qualities that made the first two Shreks so very interesting.  Could the fourth one pull it out of its downward spiral?  We’ll have to wait a good long while as they’re still casting.