Or The Birds, for that matter…
The Wrap‘s Michael Adams got some one-on-two time with writers Stiles White and Juliet Snowden, the pair who penned this weekend’s box office hit Knowing. Adams got them to talk a bit about two forthcoming remakes: Poltergeist and The Birds.
“Poltergeist was a real snapshot of the American family in the year that it came out – 1982 – and I think what we would do with the reimaging of it is, ‘What is the American family up to today?'” says White of their take on the Tobe Hooper film.
Snowden offers her thoughts on re-doing The Birds: “With something like The Birds, you can take the concept of birds gone crazy and put that onto a myriad of situations. Whereas with some other remakes, we really felt that those were movies that we really couldn’t think of new scenes or ideas. Some of these remakes are already-perfect movies. We’re not saying The Birds isn’t a perfect movie – but when we heard about that we had, instantly, a lot of ideas about what we could do [in the present] and how we would change it.”
Vadim Perelman is in line to helm Poltergeist for MGM. The Birds, meanwhile, is set up at Platinum Dunes.
Source: The Wrap
