Tuesday, June 16
There may be a brief reprieve in the hideous world of Hollywood remakes. Chud.com reports that producers Brad Fuller and Andrew Form might shelf their planned rehash of Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 horror classic, The Birds. These are the same two geniuses that thought it would be a great idea to remake Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby. That project got the axe, and hopefully this one will too.
Did the dynamic duo come to the sensible conclusion that a classic shouldn't be touched? Did they realize that the movie's legendary sound design and subtle pacing couldn't be replicated? Hardly. Fuller is apparently only concerned with the birds as a plot device:
What do they do? They peck and poke ... so there's not a lot of variety as to what can happen.
Had they not seen the original? You have to wonder if these basic bird traits came as a surprise. Regardless, if this ends their project, we'll simply be thankful.
In the meantime, here's the master, himself, with his hilarious promo:
Posted 6/16/2009 by Rich Z
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Thursday, March 13
ReelzChannel.com caught up with Naomi Watts at a recent press junket, where the blonde from down under gave an update on the status of her upcoming remake of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds.
"It's a work in progress at this point," Watts said. "The script isn't completely there yet. I've seen one draft, it's good, and there's more to develop."
But even though the script for The Birds still needs some revision, Watts is excited about it." I think it's a wonderful film, there's great things in it that interest me," she said.
Next Showing: Watts thinks The Birds 'probably won't happen until next year.'
Posted 3/13/2008 by reelz
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Friday, October 19
Naomi Watts has added yet another project to her already bursting post-baby dance card: a remake of The Birds.
Watts will star as the avian-plagued lead in Universal's 'reimagining' of the Daphne du Maurier short story, which of course gave birth to the Hitchcock classic.
Martin Campbell (Casino Royale, The Legend of Zorro) is in talks to direct. Michael Bay will produce.
Source: Variety.
Posted 10/19/2007 by reelz
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