The rights to John Leake’s true crime novel Entering Hades have been acquired by Broad Green Pictures, and while Oscar-winning Birdman screenwriter Alexander Dinelaris is set to pen the script, Steve Jobs and X-Men: Apocalypse actor Michael Fassbender is in talks to star.
If the deal goes through, Fassbender will portray real-life Austrian serial killer Jack Unterweger, who lead a double life as a celebrated journalist and ruthless murderer. Unterweger amassed a kill count of 11 people across the world before he was sentenced to a life in prison and hung himself as a result in 1994.
In 2015, Fassbender continued to prove himself as one of the best actors working in the industry today, starring in three critically acclaimed films, Slow West, Macbeth and Steve Jobs, the latter of which earned him his second Oscar nomination.
Few actors are as prolific as Fassbender as well, seeing as how he consistently appears in multiple films every year and has quite the slate of films ahead of him. Between now and 2017, the actor will be popping up in Terrence Malick’s Weightless, Derek Cianfrance’s The Light Between Oceans, Assassin’s Creed and Alien: Covenant.
Entering Hades will be produced by Storyscape Entertainment’s Bob Cooper and Richard Saperstein and DMC Film’s Conor McCaughan and Daniel Emmerson. The screenplay was originally written by Bill Wheeler.
Source: Variety
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Originally published May 3, 2016. Updated April 15, 2018.
