Amazon's streaming platform dropped a huge surprise last Sunday, Feb. 3. The company gave subscribers a peek into its latest spy series called "Hanna," with the release of its pilot episode.
The availability of the new show was, in fact, revealed during a commercial break on Super Bowl LIII. Amazon showed the trailer to "Hanna" and then confirmed that viewers can watch the first episode within a 24-hour period only.
But those who failed to catch the pilot may watch all the episodes when the first season launches on the streaming platform. Amazon set the show's debut sometime this March, but the actual date has not yet been announced.
"Hanna" is based on a 2011 movie that starred Saoirse Ronan ("Mary Queen of Scots") as the young assassin. Joe Wright ("Atonement") directed the film from a script penned by David Farr and Seth Lochhead. The TV show, however, will star a newcomer in 18-year-old Esme Creed-Miles. The actress' other film credits include "Dark River" and "Mister Lonely."
Joining Creed-Miles on the show is "Altered Carbon" season 1 star Joel Kinnaman. He'll play an ex-soldier and CIA operative named Erik who raises his daughter in isolation so that she becomes the most powerful assassin in the world.
Kinnaman will be reunited with his "The Killing" (2011-2014) co-star, Mireille Enos, and she'll play another CIA agent named Marissa who holds the secrets to Erik's life.
Both seasoned actors are following in the footsteps of Eric Bana and Cate Blanchette, who played Erik and Marissa in the film version. "Hanna" will also feature Khalid Abdalla as Jerome, Rhianne Barreto as Sophie, Phaldut Sharma as Tom, Kemaal Deen-Ellis as Jay and Sam C. Wilson as Costigan.
Both Wright and Farr are attached to Amazon's "Hanna." But the TV version has so many differences from the film, based on what was shown in the pilot episode.
According to Screen Rant, some of the differences cover the new training ground for Hanna, which takes place in caves on the TV show when it was in the log cabins in the movie. Erik also trains Hanna to learn different languages through films and music in the series. In the movie version, Hanna learned French, German and Spanish by reading.
Also missing from the series is Hanna's favorite book, "Grimm's Fairy Tales." Slashfilm observed that the TV version might do away with the fairy tale aspect of the story. But the biggest change from movie to TV involves how Marissa captures Hanna.
There will be eight full-hour episodes to "Hanna." Amazon Prime will release all episodes in March.
