A bit of bad news from Blumhouse and Miramax this week. It has been announced that director Karyn Kusama will no longer be making her Dracula based film Mina Harker for the horror studio. 

The film was to be a modern take on the Bram Stoker character of Mina Harker and her introduction to Dracula. Staring Blindpotting's Jasmine Cephas Jones as the titular character of Mina, the film was to be set in Los Angeles and written by Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi who have worked with Kusama in the past, penning the films Aeon Flux, Destroyer, and The Invitation. 

The news of the dead project comes not long after the premiere of the wildly popular Showtime series Yellowjackets which was executive produced by Karyn Kasama, who also directed the pilot episode. Deadline was the first to report on the doomed project, which was set to begin shooting in a mere three weeks. The reason for the project not going forward had to do with creative differences between Kusama and Miramax, prompting the studio to drop the film. 

Mina Harker was just one of a slew of Dracula themed films which have been greenlit, including Amblin Partners' Last Voyage of the Demeter and the much anticipated Renfield, which stars Nicholas Hoult in the title role and Nicolas Cage as his vampire master Dracula, which has wrapped production recently. 

With Universal's Dark Universe franchise now in Hollywood limbo after the box office failure of Tom Cruise's The Mummy, which was set to kick off a mad monster party of the studio's classic characters in a Avenger's-like team up, there seems to be penty of room for other filmmakers to tell their versions of the legendary vampire.

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