48 Hours director remaking Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

Veteran filmmaker Walter Hill (“48 Hours”, “Red Heat”) is remaking the classic 1962 film “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?”.

The original film starred Bette Davis and Joan Crawford and told of a former child star and her crippled sister, Jane and Blanche Hudson.

Hill, who it’s fair to say is trying something very new here, will adapt Henry Keller’s original screenplay.

The filmmaker, whose next film “Bullet to the Head” starring Sylvester Stallone opens in February, says it’ll be a challenge to cast the redo.

“The two equal leads demand great performers – that is a given,” Hill told THR. “The intensity of the gothic storyline makes a reconfiguration of the drama still a potentially searing experience. The idea is to make a modern film without modernizing the period. It needs to resonate the golden age of Hollywood.”

Hill has struck a partnership agreement with the Aldrich Co. and will share producing credit with Adell Aldrich, daughter of the late Robert Aldrich, director of the original movie.