There is
some good news of sorts if you were despairing of ever again seeing
anything original at the cinema. The HorrorSquad website is reporting
that Michael Bay's production company Platinum Dunes has apparently
dropped plans to remake Hitchcock's The Birds and Roman
Polanski's Rosemary's Baby.
In an
interview with Brad Fuller and Andrew Form, the duo behind the recent Friday the 13th
and Texas Chainsaw remakes, as well as the upcoming new version of
Nightmare on Elm Street, both appeared to suggest that the
overwhelmingly negative response on the Internet was a factor
On The
Birds remake, which had been slated for a 2011 release with Naomi Watts in the Tippi Hedren role, Fuller is quoted as saying "As you
guys know, we lay ourselves out there and get annihilated out there
online all day long, and that movie just opens us up to a whole
different level of annihilation."(read more...)