"Atonement” helmer Joe Wright is in talks to direct Focus Features’ action-adventure thriller “Hanna.” Leslie Holleran, Marty Adelstein and Scott Nemes are producing.
The project has garnered considerable attention in director circles since getting set up at Focus in 2007, with Danny Boyle kicking its tires as a directing vehicle at one point and Alfonso Cuaron circling it in recent weeks.
The project is described as having shades of “La Femme Nikita” and the “Bourne” movies. The story 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.
Wright was due to direct period love story “Indian Summer,” starring Cate Blanchett, for Working Title and Universal. But as the project’s budget rose, and with the conditions for upscale adult dramas not favorable, the makers opted to put the project on hold.
“Hanna” would mark CAA-repped Wright’s first foray into the action realm after making such dramas as “Atonement,” “The Soloist” and “Pride & Prejudice.”
Been there, done that. http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi3683909913/
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This is the best project.I would say Hanna is described as similar in tone to La Femme Nikita as well as the ever-popular Bourne movie....
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Well, if he had anything to do with "Atonement" then we can be pretty sure that this new "Hanna" production will be good. Depends on the cast too, of course but I am looking forward to seeing it already.
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