An exchange that starts off with the first tweet, so I'm including it here again:
@willmckinley
It sounds to me like Jim Pierson is preparing #DarkShadows fans for the Tim Burton feature being different from the TV show
5 hours ago
Greg_Bashjian Greg Bashjian
@willmckinley Any additional details on this for those of us not lucky enough to be there would be appreciated. & thanks for the info tday
1 hour ago
willmckinley
@Greg_Bashjian what would you like to know?
59 minutes ago
Greg_Bashjian
@willmckinley I was just wondering what Jim was saying about the new movie that made you think he was preparing older fans for change.
57 minutes ago
willmckinley
@Greg_Bashjian I was reading subtext. He made a point of saying that Curtis did DS 4 times, each one different. So get ready for different
39 minutes ago
willmckinley
@Greg_Bashjian But nobody said anything specific about plot, tone, or approach. The new movie had almost no presence at this event. Odd.
38 minutes ago
Not as odd as Mr McKinley might think given the fact that Tim Burton has clamped down so hard on info about the film that it was practically impossible for Pierson to have said much more, to have shown much more, or for the film to have had much more of a presence at the Fest than it did. And it probably wouldn't hurt to keep in mind that while each one of those 4 previous versions were different, each was also unmistakably recognizable as DS. So, even if Mr. McKinley's perceptions of Pierson's supposed subtext are correct, and Pierson was trying to imply that the Depp/DS film will be different from what has come before, that doesn't necessarily mean for one minute that the Depp/DS film will be any less recognizable as DS as those 4 previous versions were.
willmckinley
@Greg_Bashjian I think it was a missed opportunity. Hand out a t-shirt or something, ya know? Get 2000 fans on board, spreading wordofmouth.
36 minutes ago
Greg_Bashjian
@willmckinley To me someone really missed out on a great opportunity to get us even more excited n spread the word more than we already are
34 minutes ago
Greg_Bashjian
@willmckinley Exactly right! The core fanbase thats still rabid 45 years later would have been a great marketing opportunity for them.
33 minutes ago
Sadly, given Burton's crackdown, it would have been impossible to hand out practically anything except a t-shirt with plain text that might have said something like:
Johnny Depp
Tim Burton's
Dark Shadows
I mean, if we're not even supposed to see a photo of an extra, Burton's not about to release a photo for a t-shirt or probably even the font the titles might be in. And plain text on a plain t-shirt, well, not exactly all that great a marketing tool.
263 days 23 hours 28 minutes 1 second until the day the Depp/Burton Dark Shadows is released(ET)!!