Platinum Dunes seems to be dropping a lot of remakes off their slate. First to go was the planned remake of Near Dark and now it looks like Rosemary’s Baby and The Birds may be next.

Producer Brad Fuller talked to Collider:

Rosemary’s Baby

“…we even talked to the best writers in town and it feels like it might not be do-able. We couldn’t come up with something where it felt like it was relevant and we could add something to it other than what it was so we’re not going to do that film.”

The Birds

“Martin has been working on the script and we’re expecting a script in the next 2-3 weeks, but that’s another one where its not like Drew, Michael and i think that we’re just going to crap all over Alfred Hitchcock’s movie…so that’s not a movie that we’re just going to step up and just go have birds attacking people and trying to throw that into the box office. If we can’t make that movie unique or add something to it, I don’t think we’re going to make it.”

Three less remakes is a good thing in my book, but we still got a shitload coming in 2009.