More than 60 years after Alfred Hitchcock’s iconic horror film The Birds first terrified audiences, the story is taking flight once again as an all-new limited series, with Emmy-winning actress Sarah Snook set to star, according to a report on Deadline.
The synopsis for the limited series reads “The Birds introduces traveling magistrate Myra Massey (Snook) as she returns to her isolated Alaskan hometown for a routine presumptive death hearing, expecting a simple cold case. Instead, she finds her childhood friend’s bullet-ridden body. When Myra is forced to step outside her role as judge to untangle the mystery, nature itself turns hostile with a wave of bird attacks. Now, Myra isn’t just trying to close a case, she’s fighting to survive in a place where death lurks in both the shadows and the skies.”
“We’re going back to the source material, the Daphne du Maurier novella and using that as inspiration,” said Sue Gibbs, Head of Development at Heyday Television. “And at its heart, it’s looking at when nature turns on you. Obviously, with climate change that is very timely.”
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