Interesting Twitter conversation about the original theme. A part of me hopes it will be used. Though I honestly find this DS film conversation involving EW's Anthony Breznican that I just came across on Twitter to be even more interesting:
Anthony Breznican @Breznican
I've seen final cut of Dark Shadows. Tone similar to Burton and Depp's Sleepy Hollow - lots of humor, but with menacing, atmospheric edge.
1:56 PM - 14 Apr 12
Josh Spiegel @mousterpiece
@Breznican: I wonder, then, why the ads emphasize the humor. Those ads don't give off a Sleepy Hollow vibe at all.
2:01 PM - 14 Apr 12
Anthony Breznican @Breznican
@mousterpiece Sleepy Hollow had a LOT of humor, though.
2:15 PM - 14 Apr 12
Timothy Dowling @TimothyDowling
@Breznican good?
2:16 PM - 14 Apr 12
Anthony Breznican @Breznican
In Dark Shadows, there's an absurdist bent to the monster element. The creatures of the night are adrift in the self-obsessed world of 1970s
2:17 PM - 14 Apr 12
Jrmes @jrmes
@Breznican So on a scale of 1-10 where are you rating the film? #DarkShadows
2:20 PM - 14 Apr 12
Anthony Breznican @Breznican
In typical Burton fashion, humans are scarier than the fiends. If u want Interview w the Vampire, that movie exists. This is a more wry take
2:21 PM - 14 Apr 12
Anthony Breznican @Breznican
@TimothyDowling Yes, w qualifier. You won't think it's good if you want somber, serious scares. But if you like Buffy, you'll like this.
2:24 PM - 14 Apr 12
Anthony Breznican @Breznican
@jrmes I can't rate 1-10. That's @EW critics' job. I'm just reporting the movie's vibe, since people are curious.
2:27 PM - 14 Apr 12
Anthony Breznican @Breznican
Also, if you dig screenwriter @sethgs style w Abe Lincoln: Vampire Hunter & P+P+Z then Dark Shadows will be to your liking, too.
2:32 PM - 14 Apr 12
Tone similar to Sleepy Hollow, with humor and a menacing, atmospheric edge - sounds good to me. And the fact that Breznican has seen the final cut would seem to confirm our suspicions that some in the press have indeed already seen the finished film...
26 days 0 hours 2 minutes 15 seconds until the day the Depp/Burton Dark Shadows is released(ET)!!