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The CW has picked up an update of the action-thriller La Femme Nikita, says The Hollywood Reporter.

McG (Terminator Salvation, "Human Target") will executive produce the remake, along with Peter Johnson from Warner Bros. and Wonderland Productions.

Luc Besson's French film was released in 1990, then was remade in 1993 as the English-language Point of No Return, starring Bridget Fonda. It was turned into a TV series by USA Network in 1997.

In this version, Nikita goes rogue and a new assassin is trained to replace her.

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It was always on here at 10.30pm, my first website was a fan site for this show I made back in 1995 :D

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That tiny pic is the only memory I have of that site, it was one of the top fan websites at the time too :(

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It was always on here at 10.30pm, my first website was a fan site for this show I made back in 1995 :D

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That tiny pic is the only memory I have of that site, it was one of the top fan websites at the time too :(

wow that's totally old school!, reminds me a geocities site, I used to have a few sites based on shows on geocities! :D

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Actress Maggie Q ("Mission Impossible III," "Live Free or Die Hard") is in talks to star in The CW's "Nikita" pilot, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The casting of Maggie Q is particularly significant as it jumps off an iconic character historically portrayed as Caucasian, first by Anne Parillaud in Luc Besson's 1990 film, followed by Bridget Fonda in the 1993 redo "Point of No Return" and Peta Wilson in the 1997 USA Network series.

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.

Born in Hawaii, Maggie Q made a name for herself as a Hong Kong action star before breaking through in American cinema. She will be seen next in Screen Gems' "Priest," starring Paul Bettany and Cam Gigandet.

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Shane West ("ER") has booked the male lead on the drama pilot, about an assassin for a top-secret government organization who goes rogue (Maggie Q) and the new assassin who is trained to replace her. He'll play Michael, the agent in charge of recruitment sent to bring in the rogue Nikita. Danny Cannon is helming the hour from a script by Craig Silverstein. Warner Bros. Television is producing.

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Lyndsy Fonseca ("How I Met Your Mother") has scored a lead role on the drama pilot, a 21st century take on the "La Femme Nikita" franchise. She'll play Alex, a 19-year-old felon who - after being sentenced to 25 years in a federal penitentiary - is recruited by a secret government agency to hunt down the title character (Maggie Q), her predecessor. She's detailed as an "attractive, young, white female with virtually no personal ties or paper trail," a profile which is deemed ideal for their kind of work. Melinda Clarke ("The O.C.") and Aaron Stanford ("X-Men Trilogy/"Traveler") have both also joined the show Melinda play Amanda, a division operative tasked with educating the newly recruited Alex (Lyndsy Fonseca) in how to use her femininity to her advantage. Stanford then is on board as Birkhoff, a computer specialist who enjoys Red Bull, potato chips and watching skateboarding bloopers on YouTube.

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