Alfred Hitchcock made some of the most suspenseful and scary films in TV history in the '50s and '60s. On rare occasions, Hollywood has tried to remake the horror maestro's greatest work. That will be the case when "Transformers" director Michael Bay will take a crack at his 1963 classic, "The Birds," as reported by The Guardian.

According to a Variety article, Bay has purportedly had a successful run of remakes within the horror industry, namely with films that came out of the '70s and '80s slasher and ghost genre.

But remaking a film that was originally made famous by Hollywood's most acclaimed and seasoned master of suspense could be no easy task. For starters, Hitchcock took works that may have been obscure, if he had not wielded his magic directing wand at it in the first place.

The star from the original film, Tippi Hedren, had once told Cinema Blend in reference to remaking a classic like this, "Why would you do that?"

"Must you be so insecure that you have to take a film that's a classic, and I think a success and try to do it over? They tried to make 'Psycho' over and it didn't work," Hedren told MTV.

She was referring, of course, to the 1998 remake of "psycho" that starred Vince Vaughn in the lead role as Norman Bates. The remake film almost seemed to be a frame-by-frame duplication, with a few minor differences.

The Variety article states that "The Birds" will be directed by Dutch filmmaker Diederik van Rooijen. Bay will be serving as a co-producer for the film. It will be a joint venture production between Mandalay Bay Pictures, Universal and Platinum Dunes production houses.

The Guardian reports that there was a sequel produced in 1994 to the film, "The Birds 2: Land's End." The film's screenwriter Rick Rosenthal would later disown the production due to its complete lack of interest from the public.