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Current Talk '24 I / Re: Innovation's '91 DS Comic, Book 4, The Book That Never Was
« on: September 01, 2020, 09:06:24 PM »If DC had done another Shadows feature film around that time, I'd have been very surprised if it did not turn out to be yet another re-make of HOUSE OF DS.
I have no doubt that if DC had had his way, the film would have been a near total remake of hoDS - and the evidence for that is that's what he wanted the '04 WB pilot to be like. Thankfully John Wells and Mark Verheiden, the two other exec producers on the pilot, wouldn't have any of it. And the good thing about the proposed film is that Barbara Steele supposedly made sure the script had new twists and turns so it wouldn't be a near total hoDS remake. After all, DC had already recreated way too many hoDS scenes shot for shot (as well as from his version of Dracula with Jack Palance) for the third hour of the '91 Series. No doubt Steele knew it would be a mistake to do it again.
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In some ways DC seems to have been a very elaborately crenellated version of a one-trick pony. At least when it came to DS.
Sad, but very true! But then even DC openly admitted that he didn't have a fresh idea in his head when it came to DS...