Action-Packed Trailer For Amazon's Teenage Assassin Series HANNA
The 2011 Joe Wright-directed action thriller Hanna has been adapted into a series for Amazon Prime, and today the first trailer has dropped.
For those of you who don’t remember, the film told the story of a young girl who was raised by her ex-CIA dad to be an assassin and super spy. I actually really enjoyed the film and this series looks like it could end up being really good!
The series stars Joel Kinnaman and Mireille Enos who both starred together in the TV series The Killing. It’s pretty awesome that they got to work together again on a completely different series. They had great onscreen chemistry.
The series has been described as "a high-concept thriller and coming-of-age drama that follows the journey of an extraordinary young girl as she evades the relentless pursuit of an off-book CIA agent and tries to unearth the truth behind who she is."
Enos takes on the role of Marissa, "an efficient and ruthless agent who has risen up the ranks of the CIA. However, beneath her cool exterior is a deeply buried secret that continues to haunt her. The reappearance of Hanna and her father, Erik, threaten to expose the past she has worked to repress."
Kinnaman plays Erik, "a hardened, intuitive and uncompromising soldier and mercenary, who, for the past 15 years, has raised his daughter in the remote forests of northern Poland. Isolated from the world he once knew, he has trained Hanna in every method of survival, with his only goal, to keep her safe. But his teenage daughter begins to seek freedom from the restricted haven he has created."
The title character will be played by Esme Creed-Miles, who is described as an "extraordinary teenage girl, who feels she must leave the confinement of the forest to experience life. But once in the world, Hanna is hunted by Marissa and others connected to Hanna's hidden origins and exceptional abilities."
The script for the series was written by David Farr, who co-wrote the original film. The pilot episode was directed by Sarah Adina Smith (Legion). Farr previously had this to say about the series:
"I'm thrilled that Hanna has managed to attract a visionary director and actors of the caliber of Mireille and Joel to play our adult leads. 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."
Amazon Prime subscribers will be able to watch the first episode immediately after the Super Bowl this weekend. Watch the trailer and tell us what you think!