Sci-Fi Film and Television Developments

La Femme Nikita (TV)

5/18/10 - The CW has green-lighted Nikita as a series, starring uber-hot martial-arts expert Maggie Q in a reboot/follow-up to USA's beloved spy-fi show La Femme Nikita.  McG will executive-produce the remake, along with Peter Johnson from Warner Brothers TV and Wonderland Productions.  The USA show, as fans know, was based on Luc Besson's awesome 1990 French spy thriller Nikita, but the show had its own mythology and cast, headed by the beautiful blond kick-ass Aussie Peta Wilson and her broody, mulletted French-Canadian co-star Roy Dupuis.  In the new show, Nikita goes rogue, and a new assassin (Q) is trained to replace her.

2/19/10 - Maggie Q has been cast in the title role of The CW's Nikita pilot, a reboot of the spy-fi La Femme Nikita franchise, according to The Hollywood Reporter.  The CW pilot's premise of a new Nikita being trained to replace the original one after she goes rogue gave creator Craig Silverstein an opportunity to break the stereotype, and he wrote the lead as "beautiful and exotic." The pending hire of Maggie Q in Nikita, from WBTV and McG's Wonderland, would mark the highest-profile series role for an Asian actress on a broadcast drama series and the highest-profile CW minority casting in the network's four-year history.

1/27/10 - The CW has ordered a pilot for a remake of La Femme Nikita, the 1990s USA Network show based on Luc Besson's French movie, from Supernatural producer McG, according to The Hollywood Reporter.  McG will executive produce the Nikita remake, along with Peter Johnson from Warner Bros. and Wonderland Prods.  The French film Nikita, about a young criminal who's trained to be an assassin by a top-secret government organization, was originally made by Luc Besson in 1990, then was remade in 1993 as a U.S. film starring Bridget Fonda called Point of No Return. The story was then launched as a TV series in 1991 on USA Network.  Nikita will give The CW its first non-supernatural action-drama. In this version, Nikita goes rogue and a new assassin is trained to replace her.

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