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Airdate: Hanna

8 part drama based on 2011 film, will premiere on Amazon Prime in March.

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8 part drama Hanna, based on Joe Wright’s acclaimed 2011 film, will premiere on Amazon Prime Video in March.

The series written by David Farr (The Night Manager), was filmed on location in Germany, Hungary, Slovakia, Morocco, Spain and the UK.

It stars Esmé Creed-Mile as Hanna and Joel Kinnaman as Erik Heller.

Also featuring are Mireille Enos (Marissa), Joanna Kulig (Johanna), Rhianne Barreto (Sophie Quatri), Stefan Rudolf (Rudi), Peter Ferdinando (Lukas), Katharina Heyer (Elsa), Benno Fürmann (Dieter), Felicien Juttner (Olivier), Gamba Cole (Anton), Justin Salinger (Meisner), Khalid Abdalla (Sawyer), Yasmin Monet Prince (Clara), and Noah Taylor (Dr. Roland Kunek).

Raised in total seclusion in the remote woods of Eastern Europe, 15-year-old Hanna (Esme Creed-Miles) has spent her entire young life training to fight those who hunt her and her mercenary father, Erik Heller (Joel Kinnaman). Her survivalist skills are finally tested when she and Erik are separated upon their discovery by a rogue CIA operative, Marissa Wiegler (Mireille Enos) and her team of agents.

Hanna 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.

It was produced by NBC Universal International Studios, Working Title Television and Amazon Studios. Director Sarah Adina Smith (Legion, Room 104) helmed episodes one and two of the series, which filmed entirely on location in Germany, Hungary, Slovakia, Morocco, Spain and the UK.

While building on the driving action-conspiracy narrative of his feature script, Farr has also re-imagined Hanna’s world for the small-screen with compelling intimacy. Having a wider, longer scope in which to tell her story, Farr has woven a compelling coming-of-age story about a young woman learning about – and experiencing – for the first time what it is to be female in the modern world. Her strength and power as a trained fighter don’t preclude her from navigating the awkwardness of her burgeoning sexuality, changes in her body, relationships and other challenges that remind the audience that, underneath Hanna’s grit, is a young woman who ultimately yearns to feel normal.

Friday 29 March on Amazon Prime.

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