The Birds (remake)

[Trailbreaker]

So Bay is going to be one of the producers of this film. What's your take on this?

[uraydo]

well I saw the first one in class (high school) and me and my friend could stop laughing. Also I didn't approve of the lack of ending. It will be interesting to see how it turns out.

[alexsm]

unnecesary.

[r-type]

So Bay is going to be one of the producers of this film. What's your take on this?
Take on what? Bay attached as producer? Or the Birds remake itself?

Gotta make that $paper$! Seriously though, I have to ask how is this any different than the model followed by other PD projects? It's on them for remaking stuff. Plus it's the concept, not chapter and verse. As a general statement though (not directed at you), I don't get the hate that remakes get, based solely on the argument that it tarnishes the original.


unnecesary.
Unnecessary? I'll give you unnecessary! (http://www.totalfilm.com/news/paramount-fast-tracks-footloose):D:eek:

[redqueenar]

So Bay is going to be one of the producers of this film. What's your take on this?

I don't like The Birds all that much so I'm all for this. I do hope Tippi can be involved in some way. Hitchcock treated her abominably.

[Trailbreaker]

Take on what? Bay attached as producer? Or the Birds remake itself?

Bay attached as producer. Otherwise I would not have put this in the Bay forum lol. I just thought The Birds is something waaaay different for Bay to produce. It's unlike any other horror film out there, more specifically the other remakes he was involved in.

[Beej]

Why not? Makes for a class somewhere... speaking of which I recently participated in a dissection of the book "The Haunting of Hill House" and the first film "The Haunting" in 1963 directed by Robert Wise (who went on to direct "The Sound of Music"... !). Someone said the film in 1963 was made in 3-D... rats, no glasses.

I didn't find either the book nor the film all that spooky, in fact I found the main character in the book/film as well as the music in the first film highly annoying. But it had some worthy moments here and there... The fact that so much of the book is narrative makes it hard to make it a film... but I would have had more fun in the film with the caretaker (Mrs. Dudley) who repeated the same information over and over to each person in the book, much like something unearthly would...a creep fest for sure especially if she'd been the original caretaker of the house which had been implied. I also didn't see (in the book or film) the lesbian connection others did as I thought the main character (Eleanor) was simply so vacant and needing to belong somewhere which was why she was prime real estate to be possessed... but I digress greatly. Remakes are an opportunity. Spinoffs or takeoffs or simply giving birth to another which according to Stephen King "Hill House" was the inspiration for the domicle in "The Shining" so, creation or recreation is good if you chose to view it as such.

Footnote: The 1999 remake of "The Haunting" had fairly cool special effects, and the budget is listed at $80 million and it made $177 million worldwide.

"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone."

[r-type]

Bay attached as producer. Otherwise I would not have put this in the Bay forum lol. Well given people's stellar track record on starting threads, you never know.

I don't see this project as being any different or why it matters that Bay's name is attached. So color me ambivalent on this one.

The Horsemen, Fiasco Heights, and not to mention The Unborn, are other non-slasher films that PD currently has under their belt.