UGO posted an article about Hanna’s panel during New York Comic-Con. Here are the details of the two footage from the film. Hopefully we will get those clip soon.

We saw the first footage from Hanna here at New York Comic-Con – here’s the lowdown:

The clip starts with Cate Blanchett on the phone, trying to talk her way out of…something. The story’s a mystery here, but obviously her slimy CIA character is in danger. That idea is even more evident when a shot is fired through the front door and straight into Blanchett’s body guard’s head.

A small eye peeks through the bullet hole of the door – Blanchett knows she’s in danger. The scene is visceral, but the look is very akin to Wright’s other films: clean and crisp. It’s not shaky cam style like Bourne, but meticulous dolly moves, methodical action. Blanchett eventually finds her own handgun and she trades shots with the assassin outside the door. Eventually, Eric Bana storms in, but by then, Blanchett is gone.

Second clip – gunfire!

Hanna’s been living in the forest with her dad Eric Bana for fifteen years, but now she’s been captured by Marissa (Cate Blanchett). In the clip, she’s being interrogated by a guard, a tension-filled scene filled with security camera angles and heavy dialogue. There’s little comedy in Hanna – replaced by deliberate choices, like a stage play…with guns.

After a few lab techs realize there’s something amiss with her blood sameple, Hanna demands to speak to Marissa face-to-face. Cate Blanchett is chewing up her scenery in this movie – her Marissa is dripping with evil, a deranged look in her eye while she’s trying to break the young Hanna. Marissa sends a body double to speak to Hanna, whose demise comes quickly when Hanna realizes the truth. This is when the footage goes from unsettling to mentally unstable. Hanna cracks the double’s neck, takes down a few guards then fires a few shots into the remaining thugs.

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Here’s a article more about the panel. Thanks to M for the link.

Ronan said she was intrigued by the script because there was nothing else like it out there. She’s done a lot of drama, and figured it was time to play a “kick-ass girl.” And then when Wright got involved, he added a real fairy-tale element to the story as well which made the project even more appealing. “She’s a bit of a freak,” the actress said of Hanna. “I like freaks.”

Bana joked that he just wanted to work with someone named Saoirse.

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Photos from Hanna have been added to the new gallery. So be sure check them out.

Hanna will open nationwide on Friday, April 8th, 2011, and wraps production next month on location in Europe. BAFTA Award winner Joe Wright, whose films include Focus’ Atonement and Pride & Prejudice, is directing the movie. Hanna stars Academy Award nominee Saoirse Ronan, Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett, and Eric Bana. Hanna (Ms. Ronan) is a teenage girl. Uniquely, she has the strength, the stamina, and the smarts of a solider; these come from being raised by her father (Mr. Bana), an ex-CIA man, in the wilds of Finland. Living a life unlike any other teenager, her upbringing and training have been one and the same, all geared to making her the perfect assassin. The turning point in her adolescence is a sharp one; sent into the world by her father on a mission, Hanna journeys stealthily across Europe while eluding agents dispatched after her by a ruthless intelligence operative with secrets of her own (Ms. Blanchett). As she nears her ultimate target, Hanna faces startling revelations about her existence and unexpected questions about her humanity. Hanna also stars Jason Flemyng, Tom Hollander, Olivia Williams, and Martin Wuttke. Seth Lochhead wrote the initial screenplay and has written subsequent drafts, as have David Farr, Joe Penhall, and Mr. Wright. Academy Award nominee Leslie Holleran (Chocolat) is producing Hanna with the team of Marty Adelstein and Scott Nemes.

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Moving aggressively, Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisition Group has acquired all available foreign territory rights to Focus Features’ adventure thriller “Hanna,” from director Joe Wright.

Deal throws the weight of a studio behind “Hanna” in many international territories.

Focus — Universal’s specialty division — will retain distribution rights to “Hanna” in the U.S., U.K., Australia, New Zealand, Greece, Israel, Middle East and CIS. Sony Pictures Entertainment will release the film everywhere else.

Pact was engineered by Alison Thompson’s Focus Features Intl., which was shopping the project to foreign buyers at Cannes, and marks the biggest deal of the market so far. It also pairs a U.S. major with a U.S. studio specialty division.

“Hanna,” starring Saoirse Ronan, Cate Blanchett and Eric Bana, is in its final month of filming in Europe and will be released in 2011. Project reteams Wright and Ronan, who worked together on Focus’ “Atonement.” Universal distributed “Atonement” internationally.

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“It is a pleasure to be in business with Focus on what looks like an intense thriller. Audiences around the world will love this movie,” said Sony Pictures Entertainment prexy of worldwide affairs Peter Schlessel.

The Sony/Focus partnership was announced by Focus prexy of international sales and distribution Thompson and Sony senior VP of international sales Peter Kujawski.

“Under Joe Wright’s direction, ‘Hanna’ is shaping up as a dynamic and highly commercial film and we are thrilled that Sony has been so quick to recognize its international potential,” Thompson said.

Ronan plays a girl trained by her father, an ex-CIA agent, to be the perfect assassin.

“Hanna” is produced for $30 million.

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The first production still of Hanna has been replaced with HQ version.

Wow! We have our first look of Saoirse as Hanna. Thanks to M for the tip.

Young females with a killer instinct seem to be in vogue right now at the movies, what with The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and Kick-Ass. The next in line to be recruited for lethal duty is Saoirse Ronan, the 16-year-old Irish star of last year’s The Lovely Bones and an Oscar nominee as Keira Knightley’s troublemaking little sis in 2007′s Atonement.

In this exclusive first-look photo, reports USA TODAY’s Susan Wloszczyna, she is the title character in Hanna, raised from childhood to be the perfect assassin by her ex-CIA man father (Eric Bana) in rural Finland.

Cate Blanchett is the icy intelligence operative overseeing her mission. The Jason Bourne meets La Femme Nikita thriller is directed by Joe Wright, who showed a flair for intense action during the Dunkirk beach scene in Atonement, and is due next year.

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Finally we have our first look of Saoirse filming “Hanna”. She was spotted on set on April 09 and 14.

Also, Saoirse Ronan Web is now on Twitter! You can now follow @saoirseronanweb for all the latest updates and news of Saoirse.

Eric Bana is in final negotiations to star opposite Saoirse Ronan in Focus Features’ assassin pic “Hanna”.

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Cate Blanchett has joined Hanna, the Joe Wright-directed Focus Features drama which stars Saoirse Ronan and Eric Bana, and centers on a 14-year-old Eastern European girl who has been raised by her father to be a cold-blooded killing machine.

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