I've been meaning to get back to the remarks from these posts but didn't get the chance until now.
Although I do have to keep in mind how long the Depp/Burton project took to become reality
Is there enough time to have a new DS ready for air by next fall to take Supernatural's spot in the line up? I know Hollywood can move fast, but I wouldn't want them to do that with the risk of bungling this whole thing.
TV moves much faster than film. For example, the '04 DS pilot was announced in January of '04 and by April it was already being cast and shot. Though in that case the script had already been completed before the initial announcement was made. However, Mark Perry is a seasoned writer and has written for numerous TV series. Writers like that can bang out an excellent script in a week. Not that I'm saying he should be able to do that with his
Dark Shadows: Reincarnation script or that he will or has already. But it is possible - particularly considering he already has ideas in mind, so it's not like he'd be sitting in front of a computer screen thinking about where he wants the script to go. And there's even a possibility that he was already working on a script before Deadline broke its story back on the 9th. So, it is also possible that we could be hearing news sooner rather than later about whether or not the script will be moving forward to the pilot stage. However, with that being said, sometimes people wait to make an announcement because they want to do so at a special time and place, which has me speculating as to whether or not the "big announcement" at the Tarrytown Music Hall event might be related to this project, perhaps even that the CW has ordered production of the pilot. We should only be so lucky...