Cate to star in 'Hanna' with Saoirse Ronan and Eric Bana?

A new movie rumor has popped up at the forums, as reported by Variety.

"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.

Thanks Daisy Button and Blaze78 for the heads up!