According to The Hollywood Reporter, Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes company, which has already backed the remakes of THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE and THE AMITYVILLE HORROR and just made a deal with Rogue Pictures to do a new HITCHER, is now aiming to produce an update of Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 classic THE BIRDS. Bay and co. in talks with Mandalay Pictures to do the film for release by Universal, which owns the rights to the Daphne Du Maurier short story on which Hitchcock's movie was based. The original was about a small coastal town plagued by attacks by our feathered former friends, and has already been followed by a decidedly inferior 1994 made-for-TV sequel. We'll see if the new BIRDS turns out any better than Universal and Gus Van Sant's disastrous 1998 remake of Hitch's PSYCHO.
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