Hollywood has never shied away from remakes and reboots, especially when it comes to horror, but lately there have been a string of high-profile examples. Mike Flanagan’s Carrie series for Prime Video and Peacock’s Friday the 13th prequel, Crystal Lake , are two very recent ones. Now HBO is adding to its prestige genre portfolio with another take on a classic property, landing the new limited series adaptation of The Birds.

The project is led by Sarah Snook , the Emmy-winning star of HBO hit Succession , and it was first announced earlier this year . The addition of HBO to the series, which will take inspiration from the 1952 Daphne du Maurier story and the 1963 Alfred Hitchcock film adaptation, is news that comes to us today from Deadline .

This spin on the tale sounds completely new, which isn’t entirely surprising, since the characters and setting of the source material and movie are fairly different (though of course they share the whole avian attack thing).…