You made a comment that it would have been possible for Warner Brothers to produce a DS film along the lines of what Disney did for
The Avengers. And I'm not trying to dispute that they could have.
But what you also said was that apparently they didn't want to. So, all I'm trying to do is offer a theory as to why Warner Brothers may have thought that doing a straight up vampire/human romance version of DS may have been a difficult box office prospect for them and/or may have caused them more headaches than they thought it was worth. After all, as it was Burton has already commented that initially getting Warner Brothers to even do DS at all was a tough sell. So it's pretty much a given that they made the film they though would generate the most box office for them because, when it comes to major studios,
nothing is more important than their bottom line.
4 days 6 hours 6 minutes 25 seconds until the day the Depp/Burton Dark Shadows is released(ET)!!