Didn’t I just tell you I was going to make like Santa Claus and start tossing Xmas cheer your way? Here’s some more. In an interview with Collider, Platinum Dunes honchos Andrew Form and Brad Fuller talk about the (potential) deaths of two feared remakes: THE BIRDS and ROSEMARY’S BABY. Daddy like!
COLLIDER: Is there a horror film that just cannot be done again and why do it again? I see that you’re doing “Rosemary’s Baby” and that seems like one.
Andrew: We are not doing “Rosemary’s Baby”.
Brad: No, no. I mean… “Rosemary’s Baby” was announced and it’s like a little bit like we’re taking about with Freddy. We went down that road and we even talked to the best writers in town and it feels like it might not be do-able. We couldn’t’ come up with something where it felt like it was relevant and we could add something to it other than what it was so we’re now not going to be doing that film.
COLLIDER: Where is Martin Campbell’s “The Birds”?
Brad: Martin has been working on the script and we’re expecting a script in the next 2-3 weeks, but that’s another one where its not like Drew, Michael and I think that we’re just going to crap all over Alfred Hitchcock’s movie. I mean, Alfred Hitchcock in a company wide opinion is probably the greatest director of what we do and other things too. And as someone, that at least Michael and I studied in college and there’s a reverence for him. So that’s not a movie that we’re just going to step up and just go have birds attacking people and trying to throw that into the box office. If we can’t make that movie unique or add something to it, I don’t think we’re going to make it.
This is killer news – it’s becoming increasingly obvious that with THE UNBORN and HORSEMEN, the production company is shying away from remakes (with the obvious exception of A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET). Let’s just hope they don’t decide to remake those films in a few years…
For the full interview, click it right HERE.
If The Birds doesn’t happen, remake-loving Naomi Watts will be out of a job…