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Hanna
Theatrical Release Poster
Directed byJoe Wright
Screenplay byDavid Farr
Seth Lochhead
Story bySeth Lochhead
Produced byLeslie Holleran
Marty Adelstein
Scott Nemes
StarringSaoirse Ronan
Eric Bana
Tom Hollander
Olivia Williams
Jason Flemyng
Cate Blanchett
CinematographyAlwin H. Kuchler
Edited byPaul Tothill
Music byThe Chemical Brothers
Distributed byFocus Features
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Release dates
  • April 8, 2011 (2011-04-08) (United States)
  • May 6, 2011 (2011-05-06) (United Kingdom)
Running time
111 minutes
CountriesTemplate:Film Germany
Template:Film UK
Template:Film US
LanguagesEnglish
French
Budget$30 million[1]
Box office$26,443,860[2]

Hanna is a 2011 action thriller film directed by Joe Wright, starring Saoirse Ronan, Eric Bana and Cate Blanchett.

Plot

Hanna Heller (Saoirse Ronan) is a 16-year-old girl who lives in a cabin in Finland with her father, Erik Heller (Eric Bana). Ever since she was born, Hanna has been trained by Erik to become an assassin. As part of her training, she has never come into contact with modern technology and has memorized a series of fake back stories for herself to be used when the time comes.

Hanna approaches Erik and tells him that she is "ready", and he retrieves a box containing an old transmitter, which he gives to her. After analyzing the situation, Hanna flips the switch, sending a signal of her location to Marissa Wiegler (Cate Blanchett), a corrupt CIA agent. Marissa sends a team to Erik's cabin, where Hanna, who had been waiting for them, is captured and taken to a CIA safe house in Morocco. There, she discovers that Erik is a former CIA agent who betrayed the agency and knows a secret that can't become public. Marissa has been assigned to kill him. Hanna, on the other hand, has been trained to kill Marissa by Erik. Knowing that Hanna was captured too easily, Marissa sends a body double (Michelle Dockery) to speak with Hanna. Hanna kills the false Marissa, breaks free and escapes the compound. While on the run, she meets Sebastian (Jason Flemyng) and Rachel (Olivia Williams), and befriends their daughter Sophie (Jessica Barden). They decide to help her go to Berlin, after she tells them her fake back story. Meanwhile, Marissa hires a mercenary called Isaacs (Tom Hollander) to eliminate Hanna and goes after Erik, who is in Germany.

Isaacs and his men corner Hanna and the family, but she manages to escape after killing one of Isaacs' men. The boy of the captured family is tricked into telling Marissa that Hanna is heading for Berlin. The family's fate is left unknown.

In Berlin, Hanna meets with one of her father's associates, who lives in an abandoned amusement park, to rendezvous with her father. However, Marissa and Isaacs locate them. They kill Erik's associate, but Hanna escapes. She eventually meets with her father at her grandmother's apartment, where she discovers that Marissa has murdered her grandmother. Hanna accuses Erik of not being her father, and it is revealed that Erik was once a recruiter for a program in which pregnant women were recruited from abortion clinics so that the CIA could alter their children's DNA, enhancing their strength, stamina, and reflexes in order to create a batch of super-operatives that could be trained from birth. The project was, however, deemed a failure by the CIA higher-ups and all the women were eliminated. Erik, unable to allow Hanna's mother to be killed, tried to escape with them, but Marissa murdered Hanna's mother before Erik could escape with Hanna to their cabin, where, in complete isolation, Erik was able to train her to avenge her mother while preventing the CIA from locating them.

Their discussion is interrupted by Marissa and Isaacs, who appear with Isaacs' remaining cohort. Erik acts as a distraction to allow Hanna to escape, and kills Isaacs and his cohort before being shot and killed by Marissa, who then chases Hanna back to the abandoned amusement park.

There, Marissa confronts Hanna, who wounds her with an improvised bow-and-arrow. Marissa then attempts to flee, but Hanna gives chase and catches up to her. The film ends with Hanna shooting Marissa dead, thus finishing her mission.

Cast

Production

Filming locations included northern Finland near Kuusamo, followed by several locations in Germany including Bad Tölz, Berlin's Studio Babelsberg, and the abandoned amusement park Spreepark, and Hamburg, and then Ouarzazate and Essaouira in Morocco.[3] Temperatures during the Finland shoot sometimes fell as low as -33°C but Ronan said "Finland did bring out the fairy tale aspects of the story. We were shooting on a frozen lake, surrounded by pine trees covered in snow."[3] Most of the filming occurred at Studio Babelsberg.[4] Danny Boyle and Alfonso Cuarón were previously attached to direct the film, before it was confirmed that Joe Wright would direct it,[5] after Ronan prompted the producers to consider him.[6]

The film's story and script were written by Seth Lochhead[7] while a student in the Writing program at Vancouver Film School.[8] He finalized the script in 2006 with David Farr providing later changes.[9] Lochhead wrote the original story and script on spec.[10] Ronan commented on her character, saying: "We meet her as she goes out on her own, and when she does she is fascinated by everyone and everything she comes across. My favorite quality of hers is that she is non-judgmental; she shows an open mind to, and a fascination with, everything."[3]

In an interview with Film School Rejects, Joe Wright cited David Lynch as a major influence on Hanna. On The Chemical Brothers score, he said: "You can expect an extraordinarily loud, thumping, deeply funky score that will not disappoint."[11]

Marketing

On December 20, 2010, the first official trailer was released, the international trailer being released on February 3, 2011.[12] On March 11, 2011, Focus Features released two television advertisements for their movie, which can be viewed on their YouTube account under the playlist "Hanna".[13][14] The official soundtrack, composed by The Chemical Brothers, was released 1 March 2011 on iTunes.[15]

Reception

Hanna received generally favorable reviews. It holds a 71% favorable rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 137 reviews with the consensus stating "Fantastic acting and crisply choreographed action sequences propel this unique, cool take on the revenge thriller."[16] Justin Chang of Variety states that "Joe Wright's 'Hanna' is an exuberantly crafted chase thriller that pulses with energy from its adrenaline-pumping first minutes to its muted bang of a finish."[17] Roger Ebert also provided positive feedback commenting "Wright combines his two genres into a stylish exercise that perversely includes some sentiment and insight".[18]

According to Hollywood Reporter, Hanna came in second place at the U.S. box office in its first weekend behind Hop.[19]

Soundtrack

Main article: Hanna (soundtrack)

References

  1. ^ "Box office / business for Hanna (2011)". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 5 April 2011.
  2. ^ http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=hanna.htm
  3. ^ a b c Raup, Jordan (February 15, 2011). "New Images & First Clip From Joe Wright's 'Hanna'". The Film Stage. Retrieved March 26, 2011.
  4. ^ "Start of Principal Photography on Hanna, Joe Wright, UK/ US/ Germany 2010". Retrieved 2011-02-17.
  5. ^ Weinberg, Scott (2009-11-17[last update]). "Joe Wright to Tackle Action With 'Hanna'". blog.moviefone.com. Retrieved 2011-02-17. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  6. ^ Pilkington, Mark (2011-04-06). "Cineplex Movie Blog - Saoirse Ronan and Eric Bana talk Hanna". cineplex.com. Retrieved 17 April 2011.
  7. ^ "Vancouver Film School helped Seth Lochhead realize his ambition for big thriller Hanna". Retrieved 2011-04-09.
  8. ^ "Vancouver Film School assignment turns into multimillion-dollar thriller 'Hanna'". Retrieved 2011-04-09.
  9. ^ "Hanna". Retrieved 2011-02-17. {{cite web}}: Text "A Focus Features Film" ignored (help); Text "Movie Overview" ignored (help)
  10. ^ "The Year of Living Famously".
  11. ^ Giroux, Joe (12 October 2010). "New York Comic Con: Joe Wright on His Action Fairy Tale 'Hanna'". Film School Rejects. Retrieved 5 April 2011.
  12. ^ "Exclusive Thriller:'Hanna'". MSN Movies UK. Retrieved 2011-02-03.
  13. ^ "Hanna TV Spot - Who is Hanna?". YouTube. 14 March 2011. Retrieved 5 April 2011.
  14. ^ "FocusFeatures's Channel: Hanna Playlist". YouTube. Retrieved 5 April 2011.
  15. ^ "Hanna (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) by The Chemical Brothers". iTunes. 1 March 2011. Retrieved 5 April 2011.
  16. ^ "Hanna (2011)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 8 April 2011.
  17. ^ Chang, Justin (30 March 2011). "Hanna". Variety. Retrieved 5 April 2011.
  18. ^ Ebert, Roger (April 7, 2011). "Hanna". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved April 8, 2011.
  19. ^ "'Hanna' Edges Out 'Arthur' for No. 2 Box Office Spot".

External links

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