First image from Hanna released

The first image from director Joe Wright and Saoirse Ronan’s thriller Hanna has been released.

Showing Ronan in the title role of Hanna, the image was unveiled by USA Today , and portrays her “perfect assassin” as trained by her ex-CIA agent father, played by Eric Bana.

Check out the image below and click for a slightly larger version...

The official synopsis for the film goes like this (though we think the Sweden bit is a slip, the film's actually set in Finland):

Hanna is a teenage girl. Uniquely, she has the strength, the stamina, and the smarts of a solider; these come from being raised by her father, an ex-CIA man, in the wilds of Sweden.

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.

As she nears her ultimate target, Hanna faces startling revelations about her existence and unexpected questions about her humanity.

Hanna is set for release in 2011.

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Josh Winning has worn a lot of hats over the years. Contributing Editor at Total Film, writer for SFX, and senior film writer at the Radio Times. Josh has also penned a novel about mysteries and monsters, is the co-host of a movie podcast, and has a library of pretty phenomenal stories from visiting some of the biggest TV and film sets in the world. He would also like you to know that he "lives for cat videos..." Don't we all, Josh. Don't we all.