Lena Dunham's vision for Polly Pocket has been put back in the box

Bad news for everyone hoping to get a second wear out of all the doll-themed outfits they bought last summer. Lena Dunham just announced that she was stepping away from her Polly Pocket adaptation, which was set to star Lily Collins. For what it’s worth, Mattel hasn’t canceled the project altogether—it just won’t be moving forward with Dunham, and the company wished her the best in a statement to The A.V. Club. They also clarified that Collins was still attached.

“I’m going to tell you something here that I haven’t told anyone: I’m not going to make the Polly Pocket movie,” Dunham told The New Yorker in a story published this morning. “I wrote a script, and I was working on it for three years. But I remember someone once said to me about Nancy Meyers: The thing that’s the most amazing about her is that the movie she makes or the movie she would be making with or without a studio, with or without notes—that somehow her taste manages to intersect perfectly with what the world wants. What a fucking gift that is. And Nora Ephron, too, who was such a mentor to me, but always said, ‘Go be weird. Don’t kowtow to anyone.’ And I think Greta [Gerwig] managed this incredible feat [with Barbie], which was to make this thing that was literally candy to so many different kinds of people and was perfectly and divinely Greta. And I just—I felt like, unless I can do it that way, I’m not going to do it. I don’t think I have that in me.”