Alfred Hitchcock's Most Terrifying Movie Is Officially Getting a HBO Remake
A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne from a misspent youth of watching monster movies on TV, perusing the sun-faded goods at the local video rental shop, and staining his fingers with ink from the Video Movie Guide. Areas of interest include science fiction, film noir, horror flicks, '70s disaster pictures, Bond movies, '90s action, giant robots, dinosaurs, super heroes, and the exuberantly schlocky output of Cannon Films. He also enjoys both Star Trek and Star Wars when they're good, and maybe even more when they're bad. As a Canadian, he also has a vested interest in Canadian movies and TV shows, especially the cheesier ones dubbed "Canuxploitation."
An expert on Marvel Comics, he has also written for the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe, and is a member of the Marvel Research Team. He can frequently be found pontificating on comic-book continuity or bemoaning the misfortunes of the Toronto Maple Leafs on his Twitter account.
Sign in to your Collider account
Just in time for Halloween, one of Alfred Hitchcock's most iconic horror movies is getting a remake, in the form of an HBO miniseries. What's more, an Emmy-winner is attached to star in the series, which has been in development for years in various forms.
Despite Hitchcock's reputation as the undisputed master of suspense, there have been occasional stabs at remaking his movies. Most infamous is Gus Van Sant's 1998 remake of Psycho, which was a complete shot-by-shot remake that critics dismissed as a feature-length experiment in pointlessness. More successful was A Perfect Murder, from that same year, which remade Dial M for Murder with Gwyneth Paltrow and Michael Douglas; it doubled its budget at the box office. And, of course, Hitchcock wasn't averse to remakes himself: he remade his own 1934 thriller The Man Who Knew Too Much in 1956; the critical consensus is that the remake is superior, with Hitchcock himself stating "...the first version is the work of a talented amateur and the second was made by a professional."
Now, Deadline reports that The Birds is coming to HBO to roost. An adaptation of the 1952 short story by Daphne du Maurier, The Birds will star Succession Emmy-winner Sarah Snook as Myra Massey, a woman who returns to her Alaskan hometown with her young daughter to investigate an old friend's disappearance. However, as she digs deeper into the mystery, she and the town are subject to mysterious, possibly supernatural attacks by the local bird population. Snook will executive produce the project with Tom Spezialy (The Leftovers) and David Heyman (Harry Potter).
The Birds is in development. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates.
KioskNews shows a cleaned-up reading view extracted from the publisher’s page — the original always lives on their site, not ours.