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• Hanna
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• Cancer Vixen
  
• As Bees in Honey Drown
  
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  Theatre
  
• Big and little

Movies

Hanna
Status: Rumored

Variety reports:
"Cate Blanchett is joining Saoirse Ronan and Eric Bana in the Joe Wright-directed thriller Hanna at Focus Features. The film centers on a 14-year-old Eastern European girl 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."

The Playlist provides more insight on the parts and the casting:
The film stars Saoirse Ronan as a teenage girl raised as a lethal killing machine by her ex-CIA operative father played by Eric Bana. DHD doesn't say who Blanchett will play, but having read the script, a sort of "La Femme Nikita" meets "Bourne" full throttle actioner by Seth Lochhead and David Farr, we can say without question it's the role of Maria, the central villain, a high-level CIA agent chasing down Hanna, who knows her father's methods all too well from their past history and work together in the field.

The script for 'Hanna' was listed on the 2009 Black List, an annual list of the best unproduced screenplays of the year. Rumor has it Danny Boyle and Seth Lochhead were attached as part contributing writers in early 2009, before eventually leaving the project. This is the second movie rumor involving director Joe Wright, whom Cate was set to work with on 'Indian Summer', a project which was cancelled late last year due to, amongst other things, budgetary issues.

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Nottingham
Status: Confirmed

Cate has signed up for the part of Maid Marian in 'Nottingham', a new take on Robin Hood, to be directed by Ridley Scott.

Her future co-star Mark Strong, who has been cast as Sir Guy of Gisbourne, mentioned on the red carpet of the London Film Critics' Circle Awards, "I think Cate Blanchett is set to take the Maid Marian part. She is a wonderful actress and it would make it a much classier film if she was in it." Cate has committed to the role of Maid Marian after Sienna Miller recently lost the part, as she apparently was deemed to youthful for the part.

Aside from Strong, Russel Crowe is a fix for the roles of Robin Hood and the Sherrif of Nottingham. Rumored co-stars include William Hurt and Vanessa Redgrave. The film will be shot at a $130 million budget, and Scott will be aiming for a PG-13 rating.

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Cancer Vixen
Status: Unknown

Cate Blanchett is attached to star in "Cancer Vixen: A True Story," based on an upcoming memoir of the same name by Marisa Acocella Marchetto, a cartoonist fashionista for Glamour and the New Yorker.

Marchetto's autobiography, which has been generating buzz ahead of its release by Knopf on Tuesday, describes how she fell in love with a celebrity restaurateur and was planning their wedding when she was diagnosed with breast cancer and realized that she had let her health insurance lapse. Her friends - stylists, gossip columnists, designers - rallied around her as she wore killer shoes to chemo sessions and strove to get married on time.

Blanchett and her husband, Andrew Upton, are in talks to serve as producers of the Working Title Films project.

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As Bees in Honey Drown
Status: Rumored

It's rumored that Cate will star 'As Bees in Honey Drown'.

As Bees in Honey Drown is a comedy about the pitfalls of the unquenchable hunger for fame. Eager almost-famous painters, singers, musicians, business managers, and, of course, authors—the occupation of the protagonist of this play—are displayed as easily trapped victims of con artists who promise big, but empty, dreams.

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The Darling / American Darling
Status: Rumored

Another rumor, and this time it's that Cate is set to portray the title role in "The Darling", a movie directed by Martin Scorsese, after the book by the same title by Russell Banks.

The book is Hannah Musgrave's story, told emotionally and convincingly years later by Hannah herself. A political radical and member of the Weather Underground, Hannah has fled America to West Africa, where she and her Liberian husband become friends and colleagues of Charles Taylor, the notorious warlord and now ex-president of Liberia.

When Taylor leaves for the United States in an effort to escape embezzlement charges, he's immediately placed in prison. Hannah's encounter with Taylor in American ultimately triggers a series of events whose momentum catches Hannah's family in its grips and forces her to make a heartrending choice.

Set in Liberia and the United States from 1975 through 1991, The Darling is a political/historical thriller -- reminiscent of Graham Greene and Joseph Conrad -- that explodes the genre, raising serious philosophical questions about terrorism, political violence, and the clash of races and cultures.

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Theatre

Big and little
Status: Rumored

Cate's rumored to be hitting the stage in Vienna, performing in Botho Strauss' "Groß und Klein" (Big and little).

Written by Botho Strauß, 'Big and little' is a drama about a woman, Lotte, and her relationships with a wide range of characters in Saarbruecken. Lotte interacts with liberal artists and a conservative elite, and along the way, the sorrows and joys of life are brought forward.

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