Joe Wright to direct teen assassin tale Hanna
Joe Wright to direct teen assassin tale Hanna
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Tuesday, 17, Nov 2009 10:30
By Lewis Bazley.
Atonement director Joe Wright is in talks to take the helm of Hanna, an upcoming action thriller concerned with a teenage assassin.
Already compared to the La Femme Nikita and Bourne films, as well as television series Alias, Hanna tells of a 14-year-old Eastern European girl raised by her father as a "cold-blooded killing machine", according to the Hollywood Reporter.
The teenager begins a normal adolescent life after she "connects" with a French family, having formed a friendship with their daughter, but soon finds herself pulled back into her father's world.
When the youngster discovers that she was "bred as a killing machine in a CIA prison camp", she faces a struggle to escape her violent upbringing.
Based on a script by Seth Lochhead and David Farr, Hanna has been a popular project since its 2007 inception at Focus Features, with both Children of Men director Alfonso Cuaron and Oscar winner Danny Boyle linked with the film.
But after period drama Indian Summer, starring Cate Blanchett, was postponed due to budgetary and location concerns, Wright now looks likely to make his first adventure film.
Having made his major directorial debut with 2005's Pride and Prejudice, been Oscar nominated for Atonement in 2007 and received acclaim for this year's The Soloist, Hanna marks a surprising departure for 35-year-old Wright.