Joe Wright's Hanna (2011)

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=60969

Source:Heat Vision
November 17, 2009


Joe Wright (Atonement) is in talks to direct Focus Features' action adventure thriller Hanna, reports Heat Vision.

Hannah centers on a 14-year-old Eastern European girl who has been raised by her father to be a cold-blooded killing machine. She connects with a French family, forms a friendship with their daughter and goes through the pangs of adolescence. When the girl is dragged back to her father's world and discovers that she was bred as a killing machine in a CIA prison camp, she must fight her way to a free life.

Seth Lochhead and David Farr worked on the script.

Hmmmm, interesting change of pace for Wright.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

I enjoyed both Attonement and Pride and Prejudice.

This movie should be a nice change of pace and I wonder if he will be thinking of Saoirse Ronan for the lead?

 

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=63110

Exclusive: Saoirse Ronan on Thriller Hanna

Source:Heather Newgen
February 8, 2010

She may only be 15 years old, but Irish actress Saoirse Ronan really knows how to choose her movie projects. First she was nominated for an Oscar in 2008 for her role in Atonement and now she's getting a lot of attention for her latest film The Lovely Bones.

Ronan next will be reteaming with Atonement director Joe Wright again shortly for Focus Features' Hanna. ComingSoon.net talked exclusively to the actress about the role at the 25th Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival, where she received the Virtuoso Award.

"I'm doing a film with Joe Wright again called 'Hanna,'" Ronan told us on the red carpet before she accepted her award. The film starts shooting in March and it's a much different character than Ronan's played before.

"She's this young girl who has basically been trained her whole life by her father to kill," she added. "It should be good fun and I'm training for it in martial arts. It's tough but I really like it and enjoy it. I do two hours in the gym and then I do about two hours of martial arts."

Ronan hasn't seen Wright since she did Atonement and is excited to work with him again.

"I like lots about Joe. He's just a very involved director. He's extremely creative. It's been four years since I've worked with him. It will be wonderful to work with him again. I love him as a person. He's a very fun guy to be around and really cares about his art and puts everything into his movies. He really believes in this film as well."

She couldn't give many details about the upcoming project, but did say: "I wouldn't call it an action movie. It's a movie that has a lot of action in it. It goes quite deep as to where Hanna comes from and what she's all about. To me, it doesn't seem like your typical action film or action hero. She's a very interesting character and I think she's going to be very interesting to play."

Eric Bana will play her father in the film, written by Seth Lochhead and David Farr.

Ronan was given the Virtuoso Award along with Emily Blunt for The Young Victorian, Carey Mulligan for An Education, Gabourey Sidibe for Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire, and Michael Stuhlbarg for A Serious Man.

 

[bullets]

This should be quited interesting if the action isn't glossy.

 

[Laderlappen]

I love Saoirse Ronan. She is really fantastic. And I heard that no other than the great [BLACKOUT]Cate Blanchett[/BLACKOUT] will be in the movie.

 

[Dr. Evil]

Cate Blanchett joins the cast:

http://www.collider.com/2010/02/08/...-and-mia-wasikowska-brings-jane-eyre-to-life/

 

[Raiden]

I haven't seen Atonement nor The Lovely Bones, but Saoirse Ronan seems like a very promising young actress. Casting her in this movie is a pretty smart move.

 

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=65439

First Look at Saoirse Ronan as Hanna

Source: USA Today
April 23, 2010


USA Today has published this first look at Saoirse Ronan (The Lovely Bones, Atonement) as the title character of director Joe Wright's action-thriller Hanna, co-starring Eric Bana, Cate Blanchett and Niels Arestrup.

In the film, Hanna is a teenage girl. Uniquely, she has the strength, the stamina, and the smarts of a solider; these come from being raised by her father (Bana), an ex-CIA man, in the wilds of Sweden. Living a life unlike any other teenager, her upbringing and training have been one and the same, all geared to making her the perfect assassin. The turning point in her adolescence is a sharp one; sent into the world by her father on a mission, Hanna journeys stealthily across Europe while eluding agents dispatched after her by a ruthless intelligence operative with secrets of her own (Blanchett). As she nears her ultimate target, Hanna faces startling revelations about her existence and unexpected questions about her humanity.

 

[Octoberist]

I'm happy for Saoirse Ronan.

I can't wait for Hanna!

 

[ImWithTeamConan]

I enjoyed both Attonement and Pride and Prejudice.

This movie should be a nice change of pace and I wonder if he will be thinking of Saoirse Ronan for the lead?

Prophetic.

And I thought it was Edgar Wright from the title. I was about to come in guns blazing, "WTF about Ant Man Edgar!!!"

 

[Crockett]

The Chemical Brothers is doing the score

Cool, I did listened to them back when they released the album Come with us.

 

[Wolfwood]

Jeez, you guys are psychics! Give me some lotto numbers!

 

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=70615

NYCC: A First Look at Focus Features' Hanna http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=70615#ixzz129ALtHIn​

Source: Edward Douglas

October 12, 2010

While the New York Comic Con didn't have the level or size of movies we've been used to seeing in past years, it did premiere some of the very first footage for a number of movies coming out in early 2011, one of them being Joe Wright's Hanna, the Atonement director's first foray into doing an action movie.

Hanna reunites Wright with his Atonement star, Irish actress Saoirse Ronan, in the title role of a young teen girl who has been living in the forests of Finland with her father Erik, played by Eric Bana, where he's been training her as an assassin with the main purpose being to kill a CIA agent named Marissa Wiegler, played by Cate Blanchett.

During the panel, they showed two clips from the movie, the first of them involving Blanchett's character, starting with the sound of a phone ringing and her picking up the phone with a brusque "What?" Bana's character Erik is on the other end of the line, and they have a brief conversation where we get to hear that Blanchett is using a heavy Southern accent for this role. She says that it's good to hear from him because they haven't had a chance to talk, and they have a tense conversation while they try to figure out what the other one has planned. Clearly, the two of them have some bad blood from having worked together previously.

Before the conversation gets too deep, there's a knock on the door, and we can see that she's in what looks like a hotel room with another agent who goes over to the door to investigate only to be shot in the head with a bullet sending him flying backwards. She hears a dial tone on the other end of the phone because Erik has hung up so she walks over to the door to see what's going on and the phone starts ringing again so she starts shooting wildly at the door until the ringing stops. She calls out to him and when there's no response, she walks over to the door and looks through one of the bullet holes to see someone in a suit about to kick the door down. We then see that the person on the other side is Bana himself and he walks into the room with his gun blazing only to see that his opponent has somehow managed to escape leaving the room empty. This scene seemed very stylishly shot, possibly influenced by Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill, particularly the scene where The Bride learns she's pregnant just as an assassin shows up to kill her.

The second clip takes place after Hanna has been found and taken in by the CIA, and it opens with her waking up lying on a table in a holding cell, her hair looking rather wild and uncombed compared to Ronan's normally straight hair. The scene opens with a fish eye lens and an interesting uses of split screens to recreate the feeling of being disoriented. Hanna asks where she is and a psychiatrist outside of the room introduces himself and starts asking her questions through the PA such as how long she'd been in the forest and what her father told her, but she's ignoring him and instead, she comments on the number of cameras surrounding her in the cell.

Since the interrogation isn't going anywhere, the doctor says that if she needs anything that she should just ask, so she insists on talking to Marissa Wiegler, but he says that she's not there and he'll get her someone else. We then see that Marissa is in another room watching this interaction and she tells the psychiatrist to do what he's told. Finally, a woman walks into the room and sits down next to Hanna facing away from her who we assume to be Marissa. When the camera pans around we see that this isn't the real Marissa and they've figured that Hanna is up to something and have sent in a decoy.

Hanna asks the fake Marissa where she is and she's told she's in a nice place, but Hanna is suspicious and asks her where the agent first met her father, but the real Marissa is feeding the decoy that information through an earpiece. Hanna then starts crying so the woman posing as Marissa moves over to console her despite being told in her earpiece to keep her distance. When Hanna starts to embrace her closely, wrapping her legs around the woman's body, the agents watching this on the monitors start calling her to abort and they send armed agents to the room, but before they get there Hanna has snapped the woman's neck. Alarms start blaring and when the agents break into the room, Hanna quickly takes them all down, using an impressive judo move to throw one of them over her head, grabs one of their guns and proceeds to shoot out all the cameras, leaving the one being watched on a monitor by Marissa for last.

The footage was notably more stylish than what we normally have seen from Wright, and the director mentioned on the panel that the Chemical Brothers would be providing the music for the movie although we didn't get any taste of what they'll do with the clips shown. Wright had previously worked with the Chemicals helping to set up video installations for their raves back in the '90s, and that decision would be another departure for the director whose mainly had classical music influences for his previous three films.

Wright's also using fight coordinator Jeff Imada who did the "Bourne" movies to create a fighting style somewhere between martial arts and streetfighting.

After the panel, we had a chance to sit down with Joe Wright for an exclusive video interview and here's what we talked about:

* Why he decided to do something different
* How he went about approaching the material in terms of doing something more stylish
* Whether the humor was in the script or brought by the actors
* If he thinks the fans of Atonement might see Hanna
* The fairy tale aspect of the film and whether it's taken literally
* Working with the same actors a second time
* He says he might try to do another period film after finishing Hanna
* His disappointment in how things turned out with The Soloist
And More!

Hanna is scheduled to open on April 8, 2011.http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=70615#ixzz129AC3VyK​

 

[green]

Sounds fantastic. Looking forward to this.

 

[Crockett]

The description of the clips and the fairy tale aspect sounds great.

 

[Project862006]

Official Trailer

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1810163684/video/23571726
looks good

 

[TheComicbookKid]

The movie may be good but that trailer is balls.

 

[Hunter Rider]

It looks a lot quirkier than I was expecting.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Hmm, a very interesting trailer. I don't quite know how to think of it.

 

[hammerhedd11]

Wow, that looks great. This looks surreal and badass at the same time. This is what a real adaptation of RED should have looked like.

 

[Crockett]

Looks great and the tracks we've heard in the trailer from the Chemical Brothers sounds good, the minor complain though is that the trailer may reveal a bit too much of the story.

 

[green]

Trailer wasn't exactly what I was expecting, but I like it, a lot.

 

[Kane52630]

Trailer
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Plot
The title character of this adventure thriller, filmed in Europe, Hanna (Saoirse Ronan) is a teenage girl. Uniquely, she has the strength, the stamina, and the smarts of a soldier; these come from being raised by her father (Eric Bana), an ex-CIA man, in the wilds of Finland. Living a life unlike any other teenager, her upbringing and training have been one and the same, all geared to making her the perfect assassin. The turning point in her adolescence is a sharp one; sent into the world by her father on a mission, Hanna journeys stealthily across Europe while eluding agents dispatched after her by a ruthless intelligence operative with secrets of her own (Cate Blanchett). As she nears her ultimate target, Hanna faces startling revelations about her existence and unexpected questions about her humanity.

 

[bored]

Blanchett's gonna be her mother. Calling it right now.

 

[Sgt.Pepper]

There's already a tread for this movie.
http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.php?t=331584&highlight=Hanna