The Birds redux

From Darkhorizons, 'Visiting the Texas set of Rogue Pictures' "The Hitcher" remake, IGN FilmForce talked with producer Brad Fuller about their new version of "The Birds" in the works.

Fuller confirms they are NOT remaking Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 suspense classic, rather doing a new adaptation of the original short story - "We're not remaking Hitchcock's movie. That movie stands on its own and it is a wonderful piece of filmmaking. It's a very difficult thing to say, 'We're remaking a Hitchcock film'. What was interesting to us was that the short story [by Daphne Du Maurier] the Hitchcock film was based on was chock full of stuff that Hitchcock didn't use in his film. And so we went to those things and that's the basis of our film. It's the same title because it's based on the same short story but we don't have characters like what they have. The concept of birds, certainly, that's the core of the movie but the situations and the plot come from the short story not from the Hitchcock film."

He confirmed its unlikely that Michael Bay will direct it, but a lot will depend on who's cast as well - "We've had interest from very high-level actresses to play what they think is the Tippi Hendren role. It's not but, again, all of our films have this female protagonist. We've had some wonderful interest from some incredible actresses and that will dictate a little bit who directs the movie, I suspect'.