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Keanu Reeves is eager to put a speedy end to this legal drama.

Keanu Reeve’s legal counsel visited the Los Angeles Superior Court Tuesday, appealing to have the lawsuit filed against Reeves by a shutterbug who alleges he was beaten up by the revved-up actor last year be moved to arbitration.

Jeffrey Redd officially made the appeal in court papers filed earlier this month and today requesting the court for a continuance until the May 5 trial, when he will properly progress to strike the cameraman’s demand for considerable castigatory compensation.

WWE Hall of Famer Hulk Hogan (real name Terry Bollea) is being sued for his son’s (Nick Bollea: pictured above together with the wrecked 1998 Toyota Supra that he drove straight into a palm tree) car crash accident late last year.

The parents of John Graziano (Nick’s friend and a passenger of his car when the accident happened) filed the lawsuit in Pinellas County, Florida. Edward and Debra Graziano are blaming the Hulkster for his son’s apparent addiction to speed and car racing. Nick Bollea has been charged with reckless driving with serious bodily injury but no trial date has been set yet. The distraught parents are looking at millions of dollars of medical care for the rest of their son’s life.

Mel Gibson is seeking to chop down this lawsuit in half.

In court credentials submitted Tuesday, the actor/director’s attorneys appealed to cancel six of nine allegations leveled at Gibson by a piqued writer who claims he was deceived into taking a pay cut for his employment on The Passion of the Christ screenplay.

Benedict Fitzgerald, who cowrote the screenplay with Gibson, accused in his Feb. 11 protest that he was advised the movie’s financial plan was between $4 million and $7 million and that Gibson wouldn’t be getting his share of the profits until his crew and actors had been paid. The writer consequently agreed to a “relatively small salary,” two $75,000 bonuses and 5 percent of the theatrical revenues.