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A Remake of 'The Birds' Is Flying to Television
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A Remake of 'The Birds' Is Flying to Television

Gizmodo·Justin Carter·1 day ago
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Hollywood’s turned its eye toward finally remaking The Birds . Per Deadline , this new take will be a limited TV series courtesy of Universal through its International Studios offshoot. Described as a “visceral, present-day reimagining” of the 1963 Alfred Hitchcock film, Sarah Snook (All Her Fault) will play Myra Massey, a traveling magistrate returning to her isolated Alaskan hometown. It’s 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. Hitchcock’s  The Birds  saw a mixed reception at first, but it’s now considered one of the best horror films ever, and influential to filmmakers like Guillermo del Toro and John Carpenter. Since 2007 , there’s been a handful of tries at updating it for the modern day , and there was even an attempt to franchise it with an unrelated (and widely panned) made-for-TV sequel in 1994.…

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