MB you are right about possibly doubting the aintitcool's website indicating they had already known about August as the screenwriter for the DS movie. That does not pass the smell test
Actually, I wasn't really implying doubt about AintItCool's claim - I was simply saying that if what they posted is actually true, then that certainly makes it appear as if John August has been involved with the Depp/DS film for longer than any of us have known - and no one has reported it until Peter Segal (perhaps inadvertently) let it slip to IESB and they went with it. A situation like that could lend some credence to the idea that TPTB involved in the Depp/DS film may not have wanted it publicly known until they were ready to make it so, perhaps at the Fest.
Regarding DCP, I thought it did still exist on paper as a corporation but my main point is that Kennedy is listed as a producer for this film and may have known about the recent developments.
I'm sure Kennedy does. He wouldn't be much of a producer if he doesn't.
It's just that nowadays he has his own production company, Kennedy Films. We learned that last year about a month before we learned about the Depp/DS film deal:
President Of DCP Forms Own Production Company
This article says John August "has been working on patching up the script." Now what does that mean? Does that mean he wrote it and is just fixing it up a bit more or does that mean someone else wrote it and he's patching up someone else's script? If someone else wrote it, who was it?
Given that everyone's source is IESB's report, and that's not the phrasing they used, it may mean nothing much. John August is frequently the go-to guy to polish previously written scripts (he polished the script for Burton's
Corpse Bride), so whoever composed the post on FirstShowing.net may have simply had a slip of the tongue, er, a slip of the fingers out of force of habit at having written that in regard to August so many other times that they chose to say "patching up" as opposed to "writing" or "trying to work on" (which is IESB's phrasing). It's only natural that most sites want to make the wording of their posts their own instead of simply copying their source word for word.
And the author of one of the replies refers to DS as "The Shads" -- ?!?!?! Now I watched this show in the original run and I've been involved in fandom since 1990 and I've never heard of DS called The Shads -- have I been left out some sort of elite inner circle? LOL!!
The Shads is a new one on me. I can't say I've ever heard anyone say it or seen anyone write it before you brought it to our attention. But I sort of like it.
Maybe we should change the name of the forum to The Shads Forum?
Um - on second thought, no.