Michael Fassbender is one of the most exciting actors working today, and he’s landed a promising piece of material for a potential project down the road. Broad Green Pictures announced today that it has landed the rights to John Leake’s true crime novel Entering Hades, which has Fassbender attached to produce and potentially star in the tale of an Austrian serial killer. Jack Unterweger was a celebrated journalist and best-selling author who spent his days investigating murders and his nights committing them, killing over 11 people.
Unterweger committed his first murder in 1974, after which he was arrested and sent to prison, where he became an author. He was released in 1990 and used as an example of rehabilitation, working as a journalist and reporting on various crimes in Los Angeles. Little did the public know that as soon as Unterweger was released, he began killing again. The story then gets even crazier, as he led cops on a chase through the U.S., Canada, and Europe, going so far as to try and call the Austrian media to convince them of his innocence.