Overview
- Variety, Deadline and TheWrap reported Monday that Daisy Jelley and Connor Simos will star as Anastasia “Stassie” Allen and Nate Hawkins in Netflix’s series adaptation of Hannah Grace’s Icebreaker.
- Creator Jade Halley Bartlett is attached as an executive producer and Amanda Lasher will serve as showrunner and writer, giving the show a named creative team to shape the adaptation.
- Author Hannah Grace and producers Alex Cooper, Matt Kaplan and Mina Lefevre will executive produce for Unwell Productions, confirming the author’s involvement in the TV version.
- Icebreaker is based on a bestselling YA novel that spent 70 consecutive weeks on the New York Times list and has sold nearly 5 million copies, with the Maple Hills trilogy totaling about 7.5 million sales.
- Jelley brings prior Netflix YA credits while Icebreaker is reported to be Simos’s first credited TV role, and the series follows a recent streaming trend of romance dramas set in skating and hockey worlds.