The true life events of Alaskan serial killer Robert Hansen is being adapted into the feature presentation ‘The Frozen Ground’ courtesy of writer/director Scott Walker. Today the Hollywood Reporter bring us news that actress Katherine LaNasa has joined the cast of the new movie currently shooting. LaNasa (below) will join John Cusack (‘The Raven’, ‘1408’), who’ll play Hansen, and Nicolas Cage (‘Season of the Witch’) who will play the part of the pursuing detective. Hansen himself was responsible for abducting more than 24 women and hunting them in the Alaskan wilderness. Vanessa Hudgens (‘Sucker Punch’), 50 Cent and Richard Schiff also co-star in the project. Check out the plot info below.
“Hansen, a respected family man, systematically abducted some two dozen women and flew them into the Alaskan wilderness where he released and then hunted them. Story will follow a trooper who finds one of Hansen’s victims alive on the street who becomes the key in an unlikely partnership that brings Hansen to justice.
Hansen was arrested in 1983 and charged with four murders and, as part of a plea bargain, agreed to show police where the graves of the murdered women were. He was sentenced to 461 years in prison and is currently imprisoned at Spring Creek Correctional Center in Alaska.”
Katherine LaNasa Joins ‘The Frozen Ground’
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