The Birds (film) announced they will be making a television adaptation of "The Birds" for broadcast in 2018. The series, from "Harry Potter" producer David Heyman, will bear a closer resemblance to the 1952 Daphne du Maurier novelette than the 1963 film, and rather than northern California, the birds will attack in Cornwall. The pilot for the series is being written by Conor McPherson who adapted the original source material into a stage play in 2009. Streaming audio The Birds (film) The Birds is a 1963 American horror-thriller film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, loosely based on the 1952 story of the
Conference of the Birds: The Story of Peter Brook in Africa Conference of the Birds: The Story of Peter Brook in Africa Conference of the Birds: The Story of Peter Brook in Africa is a biographical book by John Heilpern, in which he describes a journey by theatre director Peter Brook and a group of actors, including Helen Mirren, across the Sahara in Northwest Africa. The journey was part of Brook's attempt to develop a form of theatre which did not depend on the cultural assumptions of the audience. The company tested some forms of theatre they had devised the Centre International de Recherche Théâtrale, by performing them for peoples with