Last year, we learned that The Night Manager's David Farr would be adapting Hanna – the 2011 Joe Wright film he co-scripted – for TV. We now know who will be starring, as Joel Kinnaman, Mireille Enos and Esme Creed-Miles have snagged the lead roles.
The series, like the movie before it, will follow the titular young woman (Creed-Miles) raised in a forest on Northern Poland by her hardened and intuitive soldier and mercenary father Erik (Kinnaman), and trained in fighting and survival. They've stayed hidden for years, but emerge when a conspiracy threatens their safety. On their trailer is the ruthless and efficient CIA agent Marissa (Enos), who harbours a dark secret that haunts her, and Hanna and Erik's re-emergence threatens to expose her past.
Amazon is producing the show, and director Sarah Adina Smith, a veteran of shows such as Legion and Room 104 and who just made the film Buster's Mal Heart, is handling the episodes. "I’m thrilled that Hanna has managed to attract a visionary director and actors of the calibre of Mireille and Joel to play our adult leads," Farr said in a statement picked up by Variety. "And in Esme Creed-Miles I believe we have discovered a star of the future – she is going to be a very special Hanna. Hanna aims to be both a raw-knuckle ride and a deeply touching family drama. It has the visceral excitement of a genuine conspiracy thriller but also the simple humanity of a rites of passage drama. Hanna is in a very unusual family. She’s a very special teenager. But all teenagers think they’re abnormal. She’s just a little more abnormal than most."
Shooting is scheduled for Hungary, Slovakia, Spain and the UK starting next month.
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