Magnolia Pictures has acquired U.S. rights to How I Live Now, an apocalyptic thriller from director Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland), starring Saoirse Ronan (Hanna) as an American teenager whose visit to the U.K. and love affair with a boy is like totally disrupted by war. Bummer!

Magnolia President Eamonn Bowles describes the film as:

Grandly scaled, beautifully crafted, with a terrific performance from the always great Saoirse Ronan, How I Live Now is equally successful as a tense apocalyptic thriller and a great teenage romance.

How I Live Now is based on English writer Meg Rosoff’s 2004 young-adult novel of the same name. Magnolia is eyeballing a fall release for the film through its Magnet Releasing shingle. Ronan is coming off Open Road’s The Host, an adaptation of Stephenie Meyers’ teen sci-fi novel.

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