Remake - For The Birds!

Here's hoping the remake of the Birds isn't a turkey.

It's been a slow news day, as everyone in the US is in holiday mode, so we've been sifting through our emails, and we came across this little report from the guys over at IGN FilmForce. Stax and the boys recently had a chance to visit the set of THE HITCHER where they met up with Brad Fuller, who spilt the beans over Platinum Dune's THE BIRDS remake/ reimagination, which "is a whole different animal than anything we've ever done," according to the site. "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,'" Fuller said. "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."