{"id":944376,"date":"2026-10-28T21:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T21:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/944376\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T21:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T21:10:14","slug":"hbo-lands-sarah-snook-led-the-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/944376\/","title":{"rendered":"HBO Lands Sarah Snook-Led “The Birds”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>HBO<\/p>\n

HBO has landed the upcoming new limited series take on \u201cThe Birds\u201d which was first reported back in May.<\/p>\n

Emmy-winning \u201cSuccession\u201d star Sarah Snook is set to star in the project dubbed a \u201cvisceral, present-day reimagining\u201d of both the original Daphne du Maurier gothic horror novella and the very loose film adaptation by Alfred Hitchcock back in 1963.<\/p>\n

Escaping a bitter custody battle, Myra Massey (Snook) returns home to her isolated Alaskan hometown with her young daughter, secretly probing a childhood friend\u2019s suspicious disappearance.<\/p>\n

With a killer on the loose and personal threats mounting, Myra fights to protect her daughter against a terrifying new menace: vicious, deadly bird attacks inexplicably tied to the crime.<\/p>\n

Now, Myra isn\u2019t just trying to close a case, she\u2019s fighting to survive in a place where death lurks in both the shadows and the skies. <\/p>\n

That bears little resemblance to the original short story, which was essentially a self-contained and almost apocalyptic \u2018home invasion\u2019 piece set in Cornwall, while the Hitchcock film took place in Bodega Bay, California.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Leftovers\u201d and HBO\u2019s \u201cWatchmen\u201d writer Tom Spezialy is penning the new series, which hails from Universal International Studios and David Heyman\u2019s Heyday Television.<\/p>\n

Spezialy, Snook, Heyman, Danny Samit, and Jennifer Gabler Rawlings all executive produce. Several attempts have been made to adapt the novella over the years, with both a Naomi Watts-led film in 2007 and a BBC series in 2017 failing to make it out of development.<\/p>\n

Source: Variety<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HBO HBO has landed the upcoming new limited series take on \u201cThe Birds\u201d which was first reported back…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":944377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,142132,134],"class_list":["post-944376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/944377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}