The Chemical Brothers Provide Joe Wright With Killer Beats

If the idea of Joe Wright (director of Pride & Prejudice, Atonement, and The Soloist) directing a film about a teenage girl who is also a trained assassin wasn't intriguing enough, what if I told you electronic heavyweights The Chemical Brothers were providing the film's score.  Would that be something you might be interested in?

At this weekend's New York Comic-Con, Wright made an appearance to show off a few scenes from the upcoming film Hanna, which stars Soairse Ronan as the titular teen assassin and Eric Bana as her ex-CIA father and trainer.  While the scenes were described as just "okay", Wright went on to confirm that The Chemical Brothers would be scoring the entire film in order to give it a more "modern beat."

Here's the synopsis for Hanna:

"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, 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. As she nears her ultimate target, Hanna faces startling revelations about her existence and unexpected questions about her humanity."

The idea of Wright making a film like this will obviously catch people off guard.  Looking at his past filmography, the idea of an assassin film doesn't really mesh.  Let alone a female teen assassin film.  But the man does know how to tell a story and his visual presence is completely underrated.  And with this cast we should get something more along the lines of The Professional rather than Kick-Ass.

What shouldn't catch anyone off guard though is the use of the use of conventional musicians scoring the film.  The Chemical Brothers' work will continue the trend set by artists like Arcade Fire and their score for The Box, Trent Reznor and The Social Network, and the highly anticipated work of Daft Punk on TRON: Legacy.  All of which have been great in their own right, so we can only hope Hanna's score can follow suit.

Comments

[Courtney]

Chemical Brothers scored FIGHT CLUB years ago so it's not like they aren't used to making a film score.

[Jay]

Courtney, it was The Dust Brothers (from L.A.) that scored Fight Club, not the Chemical Brothers (from U.K.), although I'm sure they'll do just as well :-)

[J.Bradley]

This sounds like they've taken the main appealing element of "Kick-Ass" and made a whole movie out of it. And I thought The Dust Brothers was the name The Chemical Brothers used when they were recording off-label.

[anton]

Bradley: I think that was the case some years ago but that they stopped because the "real" Dust Brothers did not approve.