The idea of remakes makes me cringe, and brace for an impact. I'm one bad-new-bit-of-remake-news away from going fetal. I exaggerate because life is too tedious unless you do.
The big prime options for them, as they'd see it, would probably be remake or reboot. (Hey, I don't make up these terms.) With DC uninvolved, a retelling just might be avoided. They're most likely to start the story over again with this or that familar element included, but a different origin story for Barnabas. Does anyone care about that possibility? I'm a bit less protective now that the percentage of storylines I have problems with has gone over 50%.
Again, I always want a new story set in the same 'universe' as the series. What other TV series movie has told the same, familiar events as in the series itself?
I'm always at least ten years behind on things, but Depp seems to be a short man with sort of a baby face, no angular arresting features, no menacing presence.