A planned remake was announced in 2007, starring Naomi Watts and directed by Martin Campbell with a script by Stiles White and Juliet Snowden.[81]
In 2017, the BBC announced it would be creating a television miniseries that followed du Maurier's original novel. The series will be written by Conor McPherson and produced by David Heyman's Heyday Television.[82]
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The Question and Answer section for The Birds is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
From the text:
“There are birds in there,” he said, “dead birds, nearly fifty of them. Robins, wrens, all the little birds from hereabouts. It’s as though a madness seized them, with the east wind.”
Melanie Daniels goes into the shop because she has a mynah bird on order.
Hitchcock always infused his narratives with a sense of impending crises. The birds, in the film, are an ominous presence giving a dark and foreboding tone.
