Netflix announced today that Daisy Jelley (How to Have Sex, Geek Girl) and Connor Simos (Subversion) have been cast as Anastasia “Stassie” Allen and Nate Hawkins, respectively, in the upcoming college romance drama series, Icebreaker. Based on the #1 New York Times best-selling novel by Hannah Grace, the series is written by Amanda Lasher (Gossip Girl, The Bold Type), who also serves as showrunner and executive producer, and created by Jade Bartlett (Road House, Miller’s Girl).
The Icebreaker logline reads, “She’s the transfer gunning for Olympic gold. He’s the campus star chasing the NHL. But when an accident forces their teams to share one rink, Anastasia Allen and Nate Hawkins collide—and discipline gives way to obsession, because the only thing more dangerous than wanting to win is wanting each other.”
“I have been a fan of steamy YA since the seventh grade, reading Judy Blume stealthily hidden behind a textbook,” Lasher tells Tudum. “I love this genre, and it’s been a joy working with Jade, the team at Unwell, and Netflix to bring Hannah Grace’s beloved Icebreaker novel to the screen.”
“It’s been such a joy to play in Hannah Grace’s world of Icebreaker, a story filled with ambitious, talented, and undeniably sexy characters. But the real special sauce is that, above all, they are good, deeply compassionate people … and we cannot get enough of them,” Bartlett adds. “Hannah has created the kind of world you want to live in, and Amanda and I are having an absolute romp with our incredible teams at Unwell and Netflix, bringing this cherished story to the screen.”
Icebreaker is the first in the three-book Maple Hill series by Hannah Grace which spent 70 consecutive weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, surpassing nearly 5 million copies sold worldwide.
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