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Current Talk '24 I / Re: It's official: Dark Shadows returns as a film with Johnny Depp: **NEWS: #266
« on: June 06, 2008, 04:22:27 AM »It's only fitting that Jim Pierson will be consulting with the producers of this film.
Actually, I don't envy the position that being a consultant on the film puts him. You've already expressed a doubt that many in fandom would share that Pierson might not want to deviate too much from the storyline that DC always seemed to want to do - and if the finished film adheres too much to that storyline, Pierson will get the lion's share of the blame because fans will just assume he fought for it. Whereas, if the finished film breaks new ground and goes into new directions, even if Pierson suggested many of those directions, he'll get little to no credit because fans will in all likelihood simply assume that the new participants like August, Burton and Depp brought their own fresh perspectives.