New TV show on Hitchcock's 'The Birds' in the works

The iconic 1963 film will be remade into a contemporary television drama, which will be written by Irish playwright and writer

Conor McPherson

, reported DigitalSpy.

The movie featured Tippi Hedren as

Melanie Daniels

, a wealthy

San Francisco

socialite, who follows a potential boyfriend to a small town in California where birds have started terrorising the residents.

Instead of California, the

BBC

version will be set in rural

Cornwall

, where a farmhand and his community is being terrorised by flocks of birds and seagulls shortly after the end of World War II.

Despite a few noticeable changes, the story will remain true to

Daphne du Maurier

's original 1952 novella of the same name.

The show will be produced by Heyday Television.