New Poster For Joe Wright's 'Hanna'

"Adapt or Die" is the tag line from this new poster for Hanna, from director Joe Wright. It prominently features Saoirse Ronan, and why shouldn't it? The film seems to clearly be a vehicle for showcasing the young actress, who also starred in Wright's Atonement.

The film is about a 16-year-old who was raised by her father (Eric Bana) to be the perfect assassin. She's sent on a mission across Europe, tracked by Cate Blanchett as a "ruthless intelligence agent." We previously shared the trailer for Hanna with you here.

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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?

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Joe Wright Directing Live-Action 'Little Mermaid'

There have been a few takes on The Little Mermaid, the Hans Christian Andersen story that is almost certainly better known as a Disney cartoon than it is in its original form. Now director Joe Wright (Atonement) will bring the fairy tale back to theaters as a live-action film.

Cinematical reports that the new adaptation has been written by Abi Morgan, whose new take was inspired by a puppet show at the Little Angel Theatre Company. It's an interesting choice for Wright, whose arc goes like this: Pride & Prejudice, Atonement, The Soloist, next year's teen assassin thriller Hanna, the historical drama Indian Summer with Cate Blanchett, and now The Little Mermaid. That's pretty diverse.

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First Look at Assassin Saoirse Ronan in 'Hanna'

USA Today has he first look at Saoirse Ronan in Hanna. "She'll play raised from childhood to be the perfect assassin by her ex-CIA man father (Eric Bana) in rural Finland. Cate Blanchett is the icy intelligence operative overseeing her mission."

The film reunites Ronan with Joe Wright, who cast her for an Oscar-nominated role in Atonement. Focus has already set this film up for a 2011 release.

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Blanchett, Bana, Ronan in Joe Wright's 'Hanna'

Atonement director Joe Wright hopes to rebound from the misfire of The Soloist (which I had taken to call The So-Soloist) with Hanna, which Focus Features describes an an adventure thriller. It will also be the "biggest production yet" for the Universal arthouse label, according its top guy James Schamus, and it certainly has a cast to match.

Saoirse Ronan, Cate Blanchett, and Eric Bana will lead the ensemble, and Niels Arestrup, who plays a pivotal role in the foreign language epic Un Prophète, has just inked a deal to co-star. Here's our Prophète review, by the way. Arestrup won the Best Supporting Actor César award for his work in that film. The only drawback I see is that, in the Focus press release, there's a chronology of how many drafts the script has been through. At least five attempts have been made to punch up Seth Lochhead's original screenplay. That can work, but very often a screenplay that goes through four separate writers has a few potholes. We'll hope that's not the case.

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