Thanks so much for the link to Grahame-Smith's interview, jimbo.
It seems August's script was much darker and straight forwarded. Part of the blame game?
The interesting thing, however, is as I've said: Richard Zanuck also described August's script as being "very funny." Humor has apparently always been a part of the film. But who knows to what extent originally? And Grahame-Smith's interview sort of confirms what he said about specifically being brought in to work on Barnabas, apparently meaning to make his character more humorous.
That interview with Seth was so very very encouraging!!
I find mostly everything Grahame-Smith has said to be encouraging. The thing is, though, there are so many people who not only want to, they insist on believing he's putting a spin on the film or he's outright lying. I suppose we'll never really know for sure if he's being as truthful as he would appear to be until after we see the film for ourselves...
36 days 12 hours 3 minutes 3 seconds until the day the Depp/Burton Dark Shadows is released(ET)!!