HANNA, first look

Dakota Fanning  has signed with prestigious  IMG modeling agency, you can view her portfolio here  IMG Agency, DAKOTA F. In other Dakota news it appears our favorite actress has dropped out of the supernatural drama "If I Stay."  Sources close to the actress said Fanning has opted not make that movie, which leaves Fanning without a major leading role. Representative for the star confirmed actress’ desire to finish her senior year of high school and enroll in NYU in the fall. Fanning is still on track to shoot the two The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn films (in which she plays Jane, a role that brings a decidedly less demanding workload). It appears Fanning is following the Jodie Foster, education first model. Fanning’s stock remains high with producers who say they are attracted to her mix of vulnerability and maturity, qualities she aptly demonstrated in last years biopic The Runaways.   What all this means is, that with the exception of a few magazine covers, some token two-minute appearances in Twilight, and maybe the promise of an indie quickie, that pretty much leaves this blog without a leading lady.

     We will have to look elsewhere, which brings us to the subject of this post, the action espionage thriller Hanna. I saw the trailer in the theater and was immediately impressed.  If it could be said that  Dakota Fanning has anything resembling a rival—the only actress out there who can hold a candle to Dakota would have to be Irish born Saorise Ronan (The Lovely Bones).  This girl is so talented, so natural it’s almost scary!  So I’m sitting in the movie theater and this trailer begins, it’s obviously a young girl lost in a frozen arctic wasteland, all dressed in animal skins like some kind of white-girl Inuit.  This piqued my interest, but it just kept getting better, turns out this girl kicks ass!  Saorise is such a chameleon actress that I didn’t even recognize her at first.
 

     THE PLOT: Hanna (Ronan) is a fourteen-year-old girl, who possesses the strength, the stamina, and the smarts of a solider; these qualities come from being raised by her father (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 (Blanchett). As she nears her ultimate target, Hanna faces startling revelations about her existence and unexpected questions about her humanity.

     Sounds cool! I love a story about a self-assured young girl who can kick-ass, and with the capable Ronan as the girl, this one promises to be significantly less cartoony than Chloe Moretz’s Hit girl. This is one movie we will defiantly be keeping our eye on. Hanna has an announced April release date.