John August is still working hard writing the script? I find this hard to believe but I guess anything is possible
The Variety article about August that I posted the link to back on February 2nd (reply #763) certainly seemed to indicate that he was still working on it.
Halloween 2010 does not sound like a bad release date.
Well, technically SG didn't say the film will come out then - only that the hoDS/NoDS DVD set "could appear as soon as Halloween 2010." Though the film is to closely follow. But how closely wasn't indicated.
Hopefully vampires are still "hot" by the time this movie comes out.
Vampires always seem to enjoy varying degrees of hotness. And the good thing is that I think we can pretty much be sure that the Depp/DS film will be nothing like the
Twilight films, so it should appeal to a much wider audience.
I lost faith in EW but if they heavily publicize the DS movie maybe I will forgive them. I think EW did a good job on the 1991 series
Yes, EW was very kind to the '91 series and gave it quite a bit of coverage. And I can't say that I've lost faith with the magazine. I've been a subscriber for 18 years and have found the level of their reporting to be consistently high throughout that time. That's what makes the October incident so odd - mostly because it was merely speculation based on Depp's deal with Disney. But in EW's defense, and as I said at the time, they specifically chose to use words/phrases like "appears" and "for now" - and words/phrases like that allowed them to cover their collective ass should any developments with the Depp/DS come along sooner than they thought was likely at the moment they wrote what they did, which is quite obviously the case. It's just that some people chose not to see their reporting as speculation and those people took it as fact - and that misinterpretation took on a life all its own as, quite sadly, is often the case on the Internet. The only thing I'm curious about is if EW will ever acknowledge how the impression they reported was blown all out of proportion...