'Hanna' director slams 'Sucker Punch'

Director Joe Wright has launched a veiled attack against Sucker Punch.

The BAFTA-winning Pride & Prejudice filmmaker, appearing at WonderCon to promote his forthcoming action-thriller Hanna, suggested that Zack Snyder's latest movie had a "bulls**t" female empowerment message.

Wright said: "I remember when the Spice Girls came out in the '90s and they called it 'Girl Power' - I think that's bulls**t.

"I probably shouldn't say this but the posters for recent films with girls kicking a**e - there's one out at the moment - there's girls in the poster in bikinis and crop-tops, and they've got pigtails and they're dressed up as schoolgirls. They're being sexualised, this is supposedly 'Girl Power' female empowerment and that's bulls**t.

"Female empowerment is not about sex, that is the point of female empowerment. It's about brains and not objectifying women."

Wright's Hanna, which reunites him with Atonement star Saoirse Ronan, centres on a teenage girl who is raised to be a deadly assassin by a her father.

The director said that he will use the film to address "the concerns I have about the place of young women in society and the continued sexual objectification of young women".

Watch a behind-the-scenes Hanna video below: