Amazon took the occasion of this year's Super Bowl across the pond to release the first full trailer for its TV adaptation of 2011's Hanna. It also launched the initial episode of the series, though only for 24 hours after the big game. Now a new trailer has arrived, heralding the arrival of the full run starting 29 March.
The series, like the film, will follow the titular young woman (Esme Creed-Miles) nabbed from a secret facility as an infant, raised in a forest on Northern Poland by her hardened and intuitive soldier and mercenary father Erik (Joel Kinnaman), and trained in fighting and survival. They've stayed hidden for years, but emerge when a conspiracy threatens their safety. On their trail is the ruthless and efficient CIA agent Marissa (Mireille Enos), who harbours a dark secret that haunts her, and Hanna and Erik's re-emergence threatens to expose her past.
Movie co-writer David Farr is spearheading the show, which according to the official press release, sees him "reimagine Hanna’s world for the small-screen with compelling intimacy. Having a wider, longer scope in which to tell her story, Farr has woven a compelling coming-of-age story about a young woman learning about – and experiencing – for the first time what it is to be female in the modern world. Her strength and power as a trained fighter doesn’t preclude her from navigating the awkwardness of her burgeoning sexuality, changes in her body, relationships and other challenges that remind the audience that, underneath Hanna’s grit, is a young woman who ultimately yearns to feel normal." Now you know. As mentioned above, the show launches on 29 March.
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