Birds remake in the works

[Raph's Girl]

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=44854

Naomi Watts will star in and Martin Campbell is in negotiations to direct Universal's new version of The Birds, Variety reported.

The movie is planned as a reimagining of Daphne du Maurier's original short story, which inspired Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 classic movie.

Michael Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller will produce through their Platinum Dunes company, while Peter Guber and Cathy Schulman are producing for Mandalay Pictures.

Stiles White and Juliet Snowden wrote a version of the script that is still being developed. New writers may be brought aboard.

Do we REAAALLY need another version of The Birds??? We've already had a sequel done in 94..now...a remake...*sighs*

[Drtooth]

Remaking and sequalling the heck out of classic, timeless, well beloved Hitchcock films. Yeah. Hollywood is great. Let's screw around with dead directors.

[Spike Spiegel]

The Birds is untouchable...still creeps me out today. The only way I could be satisfied with a remake or sequel is if it is as intelligent or as good as, if not better than, the movie that preceded it.

Toy Story 2 is one of the few, proud, sequels/remakes that WORKED.

[Drtooth]

Lemme jut say, off topic, TS2 made the original look like crap. That's how good a sequal it was to me. I like the original and all, but seeing the sequal, I just can't watch it anymore. I've never seen a sequal totally beat it's original into the ground like that.

But Hitchcock is dead, and Hollywood is full of hacks. no one can ever measure up. No matter how hard they work at it, it'll be nothing but a pathetic cash grab, not a even a film.

[Fledermaus]

Lemme jut say, off topic, TS2 made the original look like crap. That's how good a sequal it was to me. I like the original and all, but seeing the sequal, I just can't watch it anymore. I've never seen a sequal totally beat it's original into the ground like that.

I strongly disagree with that. The first Toy Story to me is fresher and more original than the its sequel, and I'm not just saying that cause it was the first movie. There are other instances where I prefer the sequel to the precedecessor (Spider-Man 2 for example). When you watch the first Toy Story, you can tell how much creative energy has gone into the development of the story, the script -- the creators honestly thought this would be the first and last time they would make a feature-length film, so they gave it their all. There was no established reputation, nothing to top -- just a great story and brilliantly new ideas.

My take anyway on that.

As for the Birds remake -- I think that there's no problem with remaking movies that sucked originally (or are so far removed from our understanding that they need to be "updated" through a re-telling). What sickens me is when the original movie was already perfect and has no need of being translated into the 21st-century vernacular.

Although... I wasn't all that impressed by the Birds (original) anyway -- to me, it doesn't feel like a classic, definitive version of the story (Shadow of a Doubt, Rear Window, Vertigo, and Psycho are better examples of movies that bear no flaws meriting a re-make.)

Sorry, I just spent the past hour and a half presenting Le Corbusier to a classful of architects-in-training. :dead:

[Magneto]

A Birds Remake?

Bleh. Despite liking Naomi Watts alright, I really dont have much of an interest in seeing this film. As I really dont know how the film can be improved upon, besides special effects of course. And honestly, that's definately not enough to warrant remaking a Hitchcock classic such as The Birds.

[Mr._Mutant_Man]

Alfred Hitchcock flipping around like a luchador in his grave right now.

Crap. Double post. Sorry.

EDIT: Naomi Watts is gorgeous, but that can't save a Hitchcock remake like Jessica Biel's beauty nearly saved the TCM remake. Maybe they need R. Lee Ermy too. :)