It isn’t just the internet that sometimes gets it completely and totally wrong; earlier this week The Denver Post reported that Robert Knepper, the infamous T-Bag from Prison Break, was going to star in the remake of The Birds for the fine people at Platinum Dunes. The problem is: Platinum Dunes never even met with the dude.
In fact, The Birds isn’t even happening at the moment. The remake did not have a completed script when the strike started, so the film is currently ‘in a holding pattern,’ according to Ryan Rotten at Shock Til You Drop, who did the legwork on the Knepper story. Unlike the reporters at The Denver Post, I guess. I’m glad to see that The Birds remains in the same limbo it’s been in for the last couple of years – while I’m certainly not against remakes, this one just seems like a poor idea from the get-go. There are a lot of killer animals that I will accept (worms!), but I could never get that scared of angry birds, and I sort of suspect modern audiences will agree with me.