When the word was out about a straight remake of Strangers on a Train, that classic Hitchcock movie you lot weren’t exactly warming to the idea, and to be frank I thought it was a total injustice. Well looks like the Studios are picking up the idea and this will be their next source to bleed dry.
Coming Soon have the news that The Birds is going to be remade. I can just see this now, we’re set for an onslaught of Hitchcock remakes, movies that it has proven cannot be remade.
Dial M for Murder to Perfect Murder, Psycho to, well, Psycho…Let’s face it Hollywood in it’s current state doesn’t get subtlety and suspense. Substitute big explosion and over production.
Universal is planning on remaking Alfred Hitchcock’s 1963 horror classic The Birds with Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes in talks to produce with Peter Guber through his Mandalay Pictures banner.
The Hollywood Reporter says the new version would be based on the short story by Daphne Du Maurier, to which Universal owns the rights and which inspired Hitchcock’s movie.
Your thoughts on remaking Hitchcock and the previous tragedies?
