Since the release of “Hanna” in 2011, the thriller’s star, Saoirse Ronan, has grown up — earning her second and third Oscar nods for “Brooklyn” and “Lady Bird” in the process. Amazon is revisiting and reimagining the story of a 15-year-old girl raised by her father in total seclusion in the remote woods of Europe, and Esmé Creed-Miles (“Dark River”) is taking on the role originated by Ronan. A trailer just dropped for the series.
“Let’s talk about your father. Do you know why he kept you in the forest?” Hanna is asked in an interrogation room. “Did he tell you were he was going? We are all worried about him.” The teen breaks down and hugs her interviewer, who reassures her that everything will be OK. And it will be — for Hanna. Her father didn’t just teach her to “fight like a machine” — her survival skills include spotting weaknesses, and she exploits her interviewer’s vulnerability by attacking her mid-embrace.
Fans of “The Killing” will be pleased to see alumni Mireille Enos and Joel Kinnaman reunited on-screen. The former plays Hanna’s father, and the latter a rogue CIA operative intent on tracking him down.
When Hanna and her father are separated, she “has no choice but to embark on a perilous journey alone across Europe as she seeks to reunite with her father and evade — and ultimately take down — the dangerous agents who target them. Hanna’s isolated upbringing leads her to face particularly daunting physical and emotional challenges along the way, as she navigates an ever-deepening conspiracy — one that could be the undoing of both her and her father,” according to the show’s synopsis.
Sarah Adina Smith (“Buster’s Mal Heart,” “Legion”) helmed the first two episodes of the series, which hits Amazon Prime March 29.
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