I don't want to be overly pessimistic - and I'm sure Darren doesn't want to be either (though given how long he's been working on his pet project to get NoDS restored, it's easy to see how he could become that way from time to time - I'd be on several anti-depressants by now) - but in the hoDS/NoDS DVDs topic Darren seemed to think that the likelihood of the Depp/DS film being released before 2011 or even 2012 wasn't very good. And given the restoration of NoDS and the release of the DVDs is directly tied to the production of the Depp/DS film, one should be able to trust that he's in a position to know.
Of course, that doesn't necessarily mean that the Depp/DS film can't begin to shoot at some point in 2010 to be held for release until some point in 2011 or later. But given Darren's outlook, it seems unlikely that the film will begin shooting in the first quarter of 2010 as many of us have been greatly hoping. We should only be so lucky that some sort of miracle takes place and things do actually work out that way, but...
As for the '04 DS pilot, I didn't think it was campy. True, the end was over the top - but it was planned that that sequence would be edited down. We have to remember that what we saw was unfinished.
But this isn't quite the topic to discuss any of that. There are other topics on the forum that have already been started to discuss such matters. This one, for example:
The 2004 WB Pilot