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Netflix is getting into nan lucky romance genre.
The streamer ordered a bid adjustment of Hannah Grace’s best-selling caller Icebreaker, and Alex Cooper is helping make it happen. The Unwell main will nutrient nan series, pinch Amanda Lasher group arsenic showrunner. Jade Bartlett will co-write.
Icebreaker follows Anastasia Allen, a competitory fig skater pinch her eyes connected Olympic gold. Everything changes erstwhile Anastasia is forced to stock nan rink pinch Nate Hawkins, a lucky subordinate who’s arsenic wished to spell pro. Despite nan acold temperatures connected nan ice, nan power betwixt Anastasia and Nate is undeniable. Is ambition aliases attraction nan sharper blade?
The book is nan first successful a trilogy, titled Maple Hill, and spent 70 weeks atop nan New York Times bestseller list.
“I person been a instrumentality of steamy YA since nan 7th grade; reference Judy Blume stealthily hidden down a matter book,” Lasher said successful a connection . “I emotion this genre, and it’s been a joyousness moving pinch Jade, nan squad astatine Unwell and Netflix to bring Hannah Grace’s beloved Icebreaker caller to nan screen.”
The bid is executive produced by Unwell Productions, from Alex Cooper, Matt Kaplan and Meena Lefevre. Lasher and Bartlett some are writers and executive producers.
Added Bartlett: “It’s been specified a joyousness to play successful Hannah Grace’s world of Icebreaker; a communicative filled pinch ambitious, talented, and undeniably sexy characters. But nan existent typical condiment is that, supra all, they are good, profoundly compassionate people….and we cannot get capable of them. Hannah has created nan benignant of world you want to unrecorded in, and Amanda and I are having an absolute romp pinch our unthinkable teams astatine Unwell and Netflix bringing this cherished communicative to nan screen.”
