“”Poltergeist” was a seminal film for us, you know, in our lives, and it’s like your dad’s classic vintage car that’s been in the garage and you’re not allowed to touch it,” says White. “It’s treasured; it’s valuable. We see “Poltergeist” as if, um, as if we’re being handed the keys to the car and we’re gonna be really careful with it.”

Obviously, the couple are keeping specifics under wraps, but what White will say is this: “Poltergeist was a real snapshot of the American family in the year that it came out --1982 -- and I think what we would do with the reimaging of it is, ‘What is the American family up to today?’”

As long as it’s not a ghost-version of “Gossip Girl,” I say.

They both laugh. “No, I think that’d be the wrong way to go,” says White.

Snowden and her husband currently are working on a remake of Poltergeist, the 1982 horror hit co-written by Steven Spielberg. The couple also wrote an as-yet-not-produced remake of the 1963 Alfred Hitchcock classic, The Birds, for Universal.

Many remakes are sent Snowden and White’s way, she added.

“We won’t do certain things because we don’t believe we can add anything new. But with The Birds, you can take the concept of birds going crazy and put any backdrop of a story behind that. That’s how we felt about Poltergeist as well. A family whose daughter disappears in a house? We can do something original and reflective of the times that we live in with that.”

Being a married couple and male and female writing team works to her and her husband’s advantage in Hollywood, Snowden added.

“We’re writing an argument between a couple right now for Poltergeist,” she said. “It contains the kind of the things that my husband and I say to each other. A lot of who we are as a couple is on the page.

“And I had just become a mom while I was writing Knowing. I’d written things about parents and kids before, but until you have your own child you don’t know the intensity of the emotions a parent has. Before I had a kid, my biggest fear was my own death. Now that I have a kid, my biggest fear is my child’s death. I’d die a thousand times to protect him. Knowing that contributes to the writing.”