I wouldn't give Curtis' taste much credence these days. His idea for DS for 2005 would have been to give us the first hr of the 91 pilot shot for shot, smoke and all. His directorial vision hasn't evolved in 20 years...
Tell me about it! It was quite shocking to see just how much DC ripped off his own previous work in the episodes of the '91 series that he directed - from his own version of Dracula to hoDS. He completely duplicated entire sequences and that was quite disheartening. In fact, before I read your latest post, I was going to respond to your previous one by saying that it doesn't surprise me in the least that DC hated the WB pilot because he probably thought it should have been yet another shot for shot remake of hoDS. Spare us!
As I said, one of the things I really enjoyed about the WB pilot was that it wasn't yet another remake of hoDS...
Well's option has lapsed so its back in DCPs hands again.
That's very unfortunate to learn.