this came up on another board and I forgot what happened exactly but didn't Dan Curtis end up abandoning this project at some point even before the pilot was finished being filmed?
what was it? I seem to recall the whole enterprise ending on something of a sour note.
DC was never one to like not to be completely in control, but compromise he had to do when it came to certain things the WB wanted. And if I recall correctly, the last straw for him came after Rob Bowman left as director and the WB categorically refused to allow DC to direct.
But as I said back at the time, one of the best possible things for the pilot was that DC didn't have the last word on everything. We'd already been there done that, and as much as I enjoy much of the '91 DS, I was no fan of the virtual shot-for-shot remake of hoDS and parts of DC's
Dracula during the early eps. The last thing we needed was another pilot like that. And thankfully the pilot that was produced for the WB introduced many new elements with new twists and turns that even long-time DS fans could be surprised by.
All that being said, though, at his Paley Center Honors, when asked what he thought of the pilot, DC's exact words were that it "looks pretty good".