‘The Birds’ Reboot: Sarah Snook to Lead HBO Limited Series Take on Hitchcock Classic
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HBO is developing a limited series inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, with Sarah Snook set to star. The story reworks the horror premise around a woman investigating a childhood friend’s disappearance while trying to protect her daughter, bringing a classic tale of mysterious bird attacks to television.
Snook will play Myra Massey, who returns home while escaping a custody battle and faces threats linked to the disappearance. Tom Spezialy wrote the pilot and will executive produce with Snook, David Heyman, Danny Samit and Jennifer Gabler Rawlings. Daphne du Maurier’s story was published in 1952, and Hitchcock’s film followed in 1963; the series is co-produced by HBO and Universal Global Television.
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In short
- Sarah Snook will lead HBO’s limited series inspired by The Birds.
- The plot links deadly bird attacks to a suspicious disappearance.
- Tom Spezialy wrote the pilot; HBO and Universal are co-producing.
How this story developed
- 3 minutes ago HBO is developing a limited series inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, with Sarah Snook set to star.
Explained simply
Daphne du Maurier’s 1952 story The Birds is about unexplained attacks by birds on people. Alfred Hitchcock adapted it into a film in 1963, which became a well-known work of suspense and horror.
Sarah Snook is an Australian actor best known for playing Shiv Roy in the television drama Succession. In the planned series, she is set to play Myra Massey, a woman who returns home and investigates what happened to a childhood friend while trying to protect her daughter.
The series is being developed by HBO and Universal Global Television as a new take on du Maurier’s premise. Its story brings the original’s threat of bird attacks into a plot about family, a disappearance and a custody dispute.