Michael Fassbender to play Austrian serial killer — theguardian.com

Michael Fassbender will play Austrian serial killer Jack Unterweger, known as the “prison poet” and the “Vienna Strangler” in new thriller Entering Hades, reports Variety. Based on John Leake’s true crime novel of the same title, the story is currently being adapted by the Oscar-winning co-writer of Birdman, Alexander Dinelaris, from an original script by Bill Wheeler. Unterweger became a cause celebre of the Austrian literary scene in the mid-1980s as the author of short stories, poems, plays, and an autobiography, later made into a film. These were all written while Unterweger was in jail for the sexually aggravated murder of an 18-year-old woman, in 1976. Among the famous figures campaigning for his release were the celebrated poet, author and artist Günter Grass and playwright and novelist Elfriede Jelinek.

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