Saturday October 9, 12:30 PM
Actors Saoirse Ronan (The Lovely Bones, Atonement) and Eric Bana (Star Trek) and Director Joe Wright (Atonement, The Soloist)
The film, to be distributed by Focus Features, was presented as a sort of fairy-tale action film. Hanna (Saoirse Ronan) is raised in the forest by her father (Eric Bana) and then sent on a mission to find and kill CIA agent Marissa Wiegler (Cate Blanchett). During the panel, two ungraded, unscored scenes were screened. The first featured Marissa Wiegler in a gunfight. The second took place after Hannah (Saoirse Ronan) after she had been picked up by special ops from the forest. She was taken to a CIA holding so she could get closer to Marissa Wiegler. At the end of the scene, Hanna displays her super-human fighting powers by effortlessly killing everyone in her cell and shooting out all of the surveillance cameras.
Q&A Highlights
On the relationship between Saoirse Ronan and Joe Wright since Atonement:
SR: We just got to know each other a lot better. That was a while ago… and I think we’ve both changed since then.
JW: She had time to grow as an actress. She had this great talent that wasn’t formed… [and now] that talent has been honed and tuned.
He said the time on set is a lot more fun now, remarking on the difference between working with an 11-year-old and a 16-year-old.
What sort of scripts do you do?
JW: “If something frightens me and I don’t know how to do it, those are often the ones that I do…. I have to be scared every day, not just by the story but technically.”
On the music:
JW: The Chemical Brothers are doing the score for the whole film…. Most of my films are very classical, and I enjoyed working with Dario Marianelli, who won the Academy Award…. [But now] I am very excited to do something more with a more modern beat.
According to Wright, the general public will see a trailer “soon.”
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