For those of you looking forward to the new feature adaptation of Emily Bronte’s novel Wuthering Heights, I have some bad news for you.

Variety is reporting that Natalie Portman has decided to exit the project after some scheduling conflicts with another project apparently became just too messy to deal with anymore.

Portman was with this project from the start, so this has surprised a lot of people.

Everyone else involved with the film is pretty unknown in the States. John Maybury is directing based on the script from Olivia Hetreed who did Girl with a Pearl Earring. Michael Fassbender is in final negotiations to star as the male lead.