John Cusack, Nicolas Cage In 'The Frozen Ground': Alaskan Serial Killer Movie

John Cusack will soon star in "The Raven" as Edgar Allen Poe, who wrote dark stories. Next, he may play a man who lived a dark secret reality.

Cusack is in talks, Deadline reports, to star in the real-life serial killer drama, "The Frozen Ground," in which he'd play Robert Hansen, a notorious serial killer who lured prostitutes and strippers, flew them into the Alaskan forest, raped and tortured them, and then set them loose before hunting down and killing them.

A social outcast who was jailed for three years earlier in life for burning down a garage, he moved to Alaska with his wife and became a champion hunter. After a semi-tranquil life (not including a year in prison), he was arrested in 1983 and eventually charged with the murder of 12 women. (More on his bio at TruTV).

In talks to play the cop that hunted him down is Nicolas Cage, putting him in a hero role quite different than his upcoming movie, "Ghost Rider."

Check out an interview with Cusack about "The Raven" below.

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Comments

[bardofoc]

01:11 AM on 07/28/2011

Too bad John often gets overlooked in the public eye for his good work in Stand by Me.

[ummm]

11:52 PM on 07/27/2011

John's going to a really dark place- another exploration of his failed relationships with women? Creepily, the women murdered and Cusack's ex-girlfriends line up to resemble each other (just as he would easily look like Hanson); a part for Lili? Could be a role they give those awards out for...good part for the FBI guy, period manhunt, Alaskan wilderness, strippers and prostitutes, obsessed trophy hunter/ brutal serial killer/ gentleman baker is a graphic story he could make very chilling and he's played dads so go for it JC.

[Akizme72]

11:10 PM on 07/27/2011

One of my favorite actors...I could watch him read the phone book.

[frank day]

10:34 PM on 07/27/2011

I like Cusack, but this isn't the sort of film I enjoy.

[katherine2011ish]

06:05 PM on 07/27/2011

Love this actor!

[Martin Obando]

05:18 PM on 07/27/2011

I didn't know this story. Really creepy.

[douttfire]

04:41 PM on 07/27/2011

I'll see this movie if Pee Wee Herman was in it! I LOVE Edgar Allan Poe. I love Pee Wee, too. ;)

[bdazz]

04:40 PM on 07/27/2011

What a creepy movie....that would be difficult to watch. I love JC..but the story is horrible. The fact that it's a true story is even worse....Reminds me of Ed Gein stuff....ick!

[douttfire]

04:35 PM on 07/27/2011

I love John Cusack. "Martian Child" was my favorite of his movies. "Better off dead" and "One Crazy Summer" are just fun movies. Best Wishes to him.

[Vince Vaccaro]

04:30 PM on 07/27/2011

This guy's work just gets better and better as time passes ...

[jmslotnick]

04:07 PM on 07/27/2011

I will not go to see John Cusack playing such a role. He is such a good actor and I think doing this part is not smart. I can see Nicholas Cage playing the serial rapist more than Cusack, however, watching such brutality is not my idea of entertainment. I think the film will do poorly.

[HUPOFYU]

03:49 PM on 07/27/2011

John HAD some good roles. At this point he is a has been. Based on work during the past 5 years I would have NO interest in seeing anything he was invovled in.

Move on John, the world needs ditch diggers and janitors as well as actors.

[melanielpc]

03:57 PM on 07/27/2011

Yikes! Who peed in your post toasties?

[GracieGiraffe]

05:14 PM on 07/27/2011

Nic?

[ArtsyJane]

03:46 PM on 07/27/2011

Also, in that story I would have thought that Cage would play the serial killer and Cusack the cop that tracks him down, not the other way around.

[ArtsyJane]

03:36 PM on 07/27/2011

To judge from the title, I thought we were going to talk about crepes.

[ArtsyJane]

03:35 PM on 07/27/2011

I don't recall Hot Tub Time Machine being a horror film. It was more like a silly sex comedy.