As much as we all dislike the idea of some of our all time favorite films being remade, we have to accept the fact that with any recognizable title, it's almost inevitable. We can only hope the right people are involved when it comes to making these updates, especially when the films in question are classics such as THE BIRDS and POLTERGEIST.

TheWrap.com just had a chat with screenwriting duo Stiles White and Juliet Snowden, fresh off the success of Alex Proyas's KNOWING (which the pair wrote). Snowden tells The Wrap, "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."

"It was presented to us as they wanted to go back to the original source material because you just don’t want to attempt to remake a Hitchcock film.  But the original novella, by Daphne du Maurier, had a lot of interesting source material. Alfred Hitchcock used it as his jumping-off point and told a story that was somewhat different from the novella. We took that same approach and went back to the source material rather than going to his film."



As far as how they'd approach remaking Tobe Hooper's POLTERGEIST? "POLTERGEIST was a seminal film for us, you know, in our lives, and it’s like your dad’s classic vintage car that’s been in the garage and you’re not allowed to touch it," says White.  "It's treasured; it's valuable.  We see POLTERGEIST as if, um, as if we’re being handed the keys to the car and we're gonna be really careful with it. 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 reimagining of it is, 'What is the American family up to today?'"

Vadim Perelman is currently attached to direct the new POLTERGEIST. Read more of the interview at the original news post HERE!