Netflix Adapts 'Icebreaker' With Alex Cooper Producing
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- Netflix ordered a series adaptation of Hannah Grace's best-selling novel Icebreaker, a romance centered on figure skater Anastasia Allen and hockey player Nate Hawkins forced to share a rink
- Alex Cooper will produce through her Unwell Productions, alongside executive producers Matt Kaplan and Meena Lefevre
- Amanda Lasher is set as showrunner with Jade Bartlett co-writing; both also serve as executive producers on the series
- The source novel is the first in a trilogy called Maple Hill and spent 70 weeks atop the New York Times bestseller list
- Lasher said she has been 'a fan of steamy YA since the 7th grade' and called the project 'a joy' to work on
- Bartlett described the novel's world as 'filled with ambitious, talented, and undeniably sexy characters' who are 'deeply compassionate people'
Why it matters: Netflix is betting on a novel that spent 70 weeks on the NYT bestseller list — a rare commercial signal that significantly de-risks a genre adaptation. Pairing Alex Cooper's Unwell Productions with a showrunner who explicitly cited her lifelong love of 'steamy YA' positions the series squarely for a young-adult audience.
