Production on the third season of the Amazon TV series Hanna is now underway in the Czech Republic, with filming currently taking place in Prague. Local production company Film United is coordinating the Czech shoot.
Based on the 2011 action film starring Saoirse Ronan and Eric Bana, Hanna stars Esme Creed-Miles as the titular young woman, whose mother was recruited into a secret government program that altered the DNA of their children to eventually turn them into super-soldiers.
Hanna’s father (Joel Kinnaman, in the role played by Bana in the film) broke her out of the program to raise her in isolation.
Mireille Enos (The Killing) plays a CIA operative behind the secret program who later takes a personal interest in Hanna.
While the cast for season 3 has not been announced, it is assumed that Esme Creed-Miles and Mireille Enos will return to the show in the primary roles. Other cast members who could return to the series include Dermot Mulroney, Yasmin Monet Prince, Áine Rose Daly and Gianna Kiehl.
Hanna was created by David Farr, who also wrote the screenplay for the 2011 movie and serves as series writer. Season three is slated to premiere on Amazon Prime Video in late 2021.
While previous seasons of Hanna were partially shot in neighboring Slovakia, this is the first to be filmed in the Czech Republic. Filming on previous seasons has also taken place in Hungary, Spain, France, and the United Kingdom.
Today, production was on location in Prague’s Karlín district.
Local casting agencies are currently seeking extras for the film, as well as an actor resembling a Goodfellas-era Ray Liotta.
Despite the ongoing COVID-19 situation in the Czech Republic, which disrupted film production in the country last year, early 2021 has seen a big uptick in international projects.
White Bird, starring Gillian Anderson, is also currently filming on location in the Czech Republic, and other major film and TV projects are also slated to begin shoots in the country in the upcoming months.
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Underrated series. Glad to see it get a proper resolution in S3 unlike so many others that end in a cliffhanger (looking at you, Netflix)