Status Updates On Remakes For The Birds, Nightmare On Elm Street, And Rosemary's Baby

While at Comic Con, I got the opportunity to sit down and talk one-on-one with Friday the 13th producers Andrew Form and Brad Fuller, both of whom were nice enough to give me the lowdown as to what stage of production their other upcoming remakes are currently at.

Here's what they said about each...

The Birds – "Martin Campbell is going to be directing that. Naomi Watts has said that she wants to star in the movie. We have a treatment that we're submitting to the studio in the next week or so. And if they sign off on that treatment, we'll go to script, and hopefully we'll have a script that's shootable next summer."

Nightmare on Elm Street – "We don't have a deal to do that yet. We're hoping that will happen soon. But as of today, we don't have a deal. New Line hired a writer, Wesley Strick, to start writing it. And we have nothing to do with it except maybe ask them to hire us."

"We're close. A deal's being set."

Rosemary's Baby – "We're in the process of hiring a writer, to kind of update that movie. That's the next movie that we're making with Paramount Studios."

For those that don't know, Martin Campbell is the director of Casino Royale, so as far as I'm concerned, a remake of The Birds might very likely be excellent. That doesn't necessarily mean it should be made, but I definitely have more faith in it than these other two potential projects. I can at least see a new version of The Birds existing without detracting from the original, but attempting to remake Rosemary's Baby just seems beyond pointless. And it's kind of hard to have any high hopes for Nightmare on Elm Street when the only name connected to it as of now is Wesley Strick, the screenwriter for The Glass House and Doom.