Updated
Updated · Deadline · Jun 15
Netflix Orders 'Icebreaker' Series After Novel's 70-Week Bestseller Run
Updated
Updated · Deadline · Jun 15

Netflix Orders 'Icebreaker' Series After Novel's 70-Week Bestseller Run

3 articles · Updated · Deadline · Jun 15

Summary

  • Netflix has greenlit a TV adaptation of Hannah Grace’s hockey romance novel "Icebreaker," bringing the best-selling book to series rather than film.
  • Amanda Lasher will serve as showrunner, while Jade Bartlett developed and wrote the pilot and will write the series with Lasher; Alex Cooper produces through Unwell Productions.
  • "Icebreaker" follows competitive figure skater Anastasia Allen, whose Olympic ambitions are upended when she must share a rink with hockey player Nate Hawkins.
  • The project taps a proven audience: the first book in Grace’s Maple Hills trilogy spent 70 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list as streamers keep leaning into romance adaptations.

Insights

Can Netflix's *Icebreaker* succeed despite toxic workplace allegations against its executive producers?
Will Netflix's adaptation dilute the book's famous 'spicy' content for a mainstream audience?