Hollywood\u2019s turned its eye toward finally remaking The Birds.<\/p>\n
Per Deadline<\/a>, this new take will be a limited TV series courtesy of Universal through its International Studios offshoot. Described as a \u201cvisceral, present-day reimagining\u201d of the 1963 Alfred Hitchcock<\/a> film, Sarah Snook (All Her Fault) will play Myra Massey, a traveling magistrate returning to her isolated Alaskan hometown. It\u2019s there that she finds her childhood friend dead and sets out to uncover what happened, occasionally impeded by bird attacks with no rhyme or reason to them.<\/p>\n Hitchcock\u2019s\u00a0The Birds\u00a0saw a mixed reception at first, but it\u2019s now considered one of the best horror films ever, and influential to filmmakers like Guillermo del Toro and John Carpenter. Since 2007<\/a>, there\u2019s been a handful of tries at updating it for the modern day<\/a>, and there was even an attempt to franchise it with an unrelated (and widely panned) made-for-TV sequel in 1994. Both the film and this new show are based on Daphne du Maurier\u2019s 1952 short story, but where the film was loosely based on it, the show is said be more inspired by the source material.<\/p>\n Universal\u2019s been developing this\u00a0The Birds\u00a0show for \u201cover a year.\u201d Snook is the only star attached right now, but we\u2019ll have more on it as news emerges.<\/p>\n Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hollywood\u2019s turned its eye toward finally remaking The Birds. Per Deadline, this new take will be a limited…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[263],"tags":[65049,18,117,19,17,327,73362,221442],"class_list":["post-510823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-alfred-hitchcock","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-sarah-snook","tag-the-birds"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116665480988467861","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n