Joe Wright's name first emerged in connection with Seth Lochhead and David Farr's smokin' hot teen assassin script Hanna a couple of months ago, and reports are now coming in that he may have his leading lady in the form of The Lovely Bones' Saoirse Ronan.
Ronan, of course, has previous form with Wright, having appeared alongside Keira Knightley in the director's 2007 Atonement. Hey, maybe she can pick up some Domino-type advice. Or perhaps not.
There, she was an aspiring writer who brought the world crashing down around her sister's ears, but as Hanna she'd be ending lives in an entirely different manner, as "an Eastern European killing machine bred in a CIA prison camp". It's being touted as a bit Nikita and a bit Bourne, but also has obvious shades of Alias and the shortly upcoming Kick Ass.
New territory for both director and potential star then, although the reported story of Hanna hiding out with a French family, befriending their daughter and "suffering the pangs of adolescence" suggests more familiar emotional territory for the pair to navigate.
Focus Features are holding the reigns, and shooting is set to take place around Europe later this year.