Saoirse Ronan in talks to play teen assassin
Saoirse Ronan in talks to play teen assassin
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Atonement actress Saoirse Ronan is reportedly in negotiations to reunite with director Joe Wright for his upcoming action thriller Hanna.
Pride and Prejudice helmer Wright was linked with the film last November and according to the Hollywood Reporter, is keen to cast 15-year-old Ronan in the title role.
Based on a script by Seth Lochhead and David Farr, Hanna has been compared to La Femme Nikita and the Bourne films while its plot also bears similarity to JJ Abrams' Alias.
The Focus Features production will tell of a 14-year-old Eastern European girl (Ronan) raised by her father as a "cold-blooded killing machine".
The teenager discovers some semblance of a normal adolescence after befriending a French family, but soon finds herself dragged back into her father's world.
When Hanna discovers she was "bred as a killing machine in a CIA prison camp", she faces a battle to escape her violent roots.
Ronan can next be seen in the lead role of murdered teenager Susie Salmon in Peter Jackson's adaptation of hit novel The Lovely Bones.
Wright is due to begin shooting Hanna in Europe later this year, with Leslie Holleran, Marty Adelstein and Scott Nemes producing.