Saoirse Ronan is in negotiations to reteam with her "Atonement" director Joe Wright to star as the title character in "
Hanna," Focus' tale of a teenage assassin.
The story follows a 14-year-old Eastern European girl (Ronan) who has been raised by her father to be a cold-blooded killing machine. She connects with a French family, forms a friendship with their daughter and goes through the pangs of adolescence. When the girl is dragged back to her father's world and discovers that she was bred as a killing machine in a CIA prison camp, she must fight her way to a free life.