Gary Dauberman was already attached to write the script and now he's going to be directing the movie as well.
When the remake was announced last year Dauberman said the following to Slash Film:
"I haven’t seen a scary vampire movie in a long, long time and I’d really love to tackle that."
I enjoyed Annabelle Comes Home (his directorial debut) so I'm pretty intrigued to see what Dauberman will do with this now that he has so much control over it and based on his comments about wanting to see a scary vampire movie.