Jennifer’s Body director Karyn Kusama will no longer have the pleasure of sinking her teeth into the Dracula universe, with news that the Blumhouse and Miramax Films Mina Harker project has been staked – just weeks before it was due to go into production.

Miramax’s exit is to blame for the collapse, states Deadline, and was due to creative differences with the filmmaker. Mina Harker would have starred Blindspotting and Hamilton actress Jasmine Cephas Jones as the titular character, who meets Dracula in modern-day Los Angeles. Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi had penned the script.

Kusama is best known for having helmed the big budget sci-fi film Æon Flux, and gained further recognition with her work on The Invitation and the Nicole Kidman-starring Destroyer. Most recently, she served as executive producer and pilot director on the hit series Yellowjackets. 

Mina Harker was one of several Dracula-inspired projects currently in the works, including the Nicolas Cage and Nicholas Hoult-starring Renfield and Amblin Partners’ Last Voyage of the Demeter.