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Q: Who Will Follow Anne Parillaud, Bridget Fonda and Peta Wilson as LA NOUVELLE FEMME NIKITA??
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Irish/Polish/Vietnamese-American Margaret Denise Quigley (aka Maggie Q) is in talks to play the title role in The CW’s pilot for a reboot of “La Femme Nikita,” based on Luc Besson’s 1990 secret-agent thriller.
The project, from McG (“Charlie’s Angels,” “Terminator Salvation”) and writer-producer Craig Silverstein (creator of Fox's perfectly awful Ron Livingston hostage-negotiator dramedy "Standoff"), will have nothing to do with the series that ran on USA from 1997 to 2001. In the CW’s pilot, Nikita is on the run from an assassin trained by the same agency that trained her.
Q’s prior credits include “Rush Hour 2,” “Around The World In 80 Days,” “Mission: Impossible III,” “Live Free Or Die Hard,” “Balls of Fury” and “Deception.”
Find The Hollywood Reporter’s story on the matter here.
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Sorry a first post just had to be done, I love the original film (I love the end scene) and have fond memories of watching the TV show on the UK's Channel 5.
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and call it Femme Nikita L.A.comma, they should...
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is the new FRIST! (dammit!)
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The remake not much. My dad like the series. Or was that Silk Stalkings?
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I thought it was a rather competent show -- certainly not "perfectly awful." Of course, the scripts were routinely bad and the plots unremarkable, but the show really hinged on the chemistry of the leads, who, now that I think about it, were two of the blandest, most milquetoast actors I've ever seen on television. On second thought, maybe "Standoff" WAS awful. Those two -- Ron Livingston and Rosemarie DeWitt -- are now married, and I'd wager they're the blandest, most milquetoast celebrity couple in Hollywood ... right in front of Jane Kazmerek (sp?) and Bradley Whitford. You know what hourlong crime drama was fucking awesome? "Smith." Goddamn, I wish they hadn't canceled that show a mere three episodes in. It was like a weekly Michael Mann mini-movie.
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Because my dad always loved it, too, VikkiMarsdale. What's strange about that, though, is that he didn't really watch any other scripted television -- just History Channel and "La Femme Nikita."
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they could have cast someone with no "combat" experience, like a Gossip Girl or something.
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Jennifer Garner ?!?
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With all due respect, an Asian La Femme Nikita is basically 'Naked Killer' - which MAGGIE Q ALREADY PLAYED !!!!!
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Yup, that about sums up how good this will be.
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Everyone on here thinks they're so TV savvy about the Spielberg EP thing and how he is just slapping on his name to get a paycheck... but no one gets that McG really has NOTHING to do with this project other than name alone. He's got like 4 series on the air and has NOTHING to do with them creatively. He has a company with execs who push projects through. He's not directing, he's not writing, he doesn't give notes. He's just getting a paycheck and pissing off stupid people who think they understand TV and don't have a clue.
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Feb 19, 2010 3:52:18 AM CST
Just when you thought ass-kicked women couldn't get any smaller
by domi'sinnerchild
We bring you a small asian boy.
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Jane Kaczmarek and Bradley Whitford are in the process of getting divorced. Just FYI.
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already, the fact that it's a CW project is the final nail in the coffin.
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saw the bridget one. nobody showed that in the uk/ireland. at least not on terrestrial. not available on dvd here.
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My God, it's a WOMAN doing spy/assassin stuff that is typically done by MEN! How groundbreaking! Great job McG, dredging this crap up for its FOURTH incarnation.
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It should be on cable, where it can be violent, bloody and as dark as a show needs to be to show an assassination squad. That would be the only reason to remake it, so it could be on somewhere like HBO and be the proper gutsy incarnation that would truly suit the story.
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The concept itself is nothing special.
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Feb 19, 2010 6:42:30 AM CST
As good as this news sound, CW can't handle a series like this!
by hollywoodhellraiser
CW don't have the resources to back something like this and make it kickass!
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as SHE SPIES season two.
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She's the hotter mixed Asian of the two
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...the Hierophant crosses the Four of Pentacles. Influences don't look good.
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Yeah, Naked Killer or Naked Weapon was very La Femme Nikita-ish... I being so excited to see Maggie Q in action again I didn't catch it was going to be on the CW. Sigh. Oh well. Yay hapas!
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It's offical...PASS!
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But this idea sounds fucking stupid!! Just give it a different name, McG. Calling it Nikita is stupid.
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I could go for another vresion of "La Femme Nikita."
But she's doing The Fugitive thing?
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...the great original tv series, but I'm all for hot chicks kicking ass. I'll sign up every time, but I just hope this CW version isn't too Dawson Creek with her personal life. Maggie Q is a great choice, and a female lead we haven't really seen before. Have we?
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Seriously, whenever I see a movie or TV show where some scrawny five-foot-tall model-type runs around with guns and kicks the asses of legions of trained male killers, I fucking laugh. If Maggie Q got attacked by one guy in an alley, she wouldn't even have time to get her pepper spray out of her purse, let alone kick someone's ass. She could train in every martial art there is and she'd still lose, because she's a scrawny little girl and no match for a man's strength. Garner comes closest because she actually has the body of a man, but anybody who saw DIE HARD 4 knows that Bruce Willis would have destroyed this chick with one punch to the face. So, why would I ever believe that she's some super assassin? And the same goes for Parillaud, Fonda, Wilson, Jolie, Moss, Jovovich, Rodriguez and any other spindly movie chick who squeezes the trigger of .50 cal. Desert Eagle and doesn't get knocked on her ass or sprain a wrist. Hollywood needs to give these actresses roles they can believably do, like playing headgames and shopping.
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Great casting. Only Zooey could be a better choice.
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Bionic enhancement.
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I would watch.
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Dawsons Creek is also used as a reference as the emotional aspect of the show... but see i love DC and glad everyone is workin hard and big... well minus Andy...
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...was gonna do a reboot. I like Maggie Q, but it's just another TV series knck off of the original? No thanks.
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...nobody, but NOBODY watches the CW. (And to make matters worse, the CW doesn't broadcast in HD in my area.)
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catch the series, but didn't Besson’s film adapt a punk/nihilist attitude that was thinned out with each adaptation?
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The original kicked my balls. The sequel not so much, even though Bridget Fonda was like crazy hot. The TV series was too tuned down to be good. Needs the total ball kicking craziness of the original to succeed.
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that's what makes the woman assassin thing interesting, the unlikeliness of it. And the way to make it good and even somewhat believable is for the woman to use every dirty trick in the book and to use the element of surprise and the advantage of being underestimated. True, a straight up fight would usually not go well for La Femme but what if she got in a shot to the nards before the big dumb guy even knew he was in a fight? Might be an equalizer.
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Sweet.
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Didn't mean to disrespect the Creek, just using the title to reference the teenage drama often found on WB/CW shows, and don't know if it would fit in an assassin action/drama. Of course, DC now looks like unadulterated teen drama compared to Gossip/OneTree/Diaries incarnations today.
CW knows their demo, not really knocking it. But like a few others have suggested here, it would be great if this new Nikita was home to a network hunting older age groups. Obviously, these are unfair assumptions until I've seen the finished product. -
Good fucking casting, people.
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Isn't McG already executive producing HUMAN TARGET for Fox? I'm sensing a theme here...
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She'll fuck you up, son.
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Who'll blind you with her razor sharp nipples, than stab you with her penis.
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Tell us how you REALLY feel, chief.
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who is tasked to assassinate people in Hollywood responsible for reboots.
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Its ok, no one could ever disrespect the greatness that is DC... but it would be nice if the new Nikita has a love triangle, teachers sexin students, and Speilberg references... i wonder how long til they reboot that show
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...lookin' for a paycheque. Probably the same ones.
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McG's company, Wonderland, produces Chuck, Supernatural and Human Target. He may be a medicore director and a douche, but his TV track record is really strong.
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Just kill him.
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The shit I would do to her... it would involve ping pong balls, a slip 'n slide and a lot of oil.
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...and who is she boning?
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...kick your butt and kill you, though? Kinda defeats the idea of her being a "hidden" assassin. Maybe it's just me.
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sixty pounds?'
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all fighting on tv and movies is choreographed. I thought we knew this already.
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...Why does Jack think he can kick everyone ass on Lost? i swear each ep he tries to go toe to toe wit someone but is conveniently stopped (by Jacob)... i mean seriously, did that time travelin make him a pseudobad ass?
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... with nudity and lesbo scenes between assassins. What could be better than hot assassins making out?
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do you understand the concept of martial arts? It doesn't matter how big or how strong you are. If you've got the speed and the precision, you can take someone down in seconds. You can incapacitate someone with the strength of two fingers. I've seen "little girls" who can take down men twice their size without breaking a sweat. I've been hearing this ignorant complaint ever since Buffy. Yeah, it's fiction, but it's not like it's fantasy. Having said all that, I'm not going to be watching this show.
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I don't need to discuss the meritsw of whether they should make a remake of a remake-
She's fuckin hot- end of discussion.
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That will be all.
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There was a very popular local commercial when I was growing up in the DC area, for a tae kwon do school run by a Master called Jhoon Rhee. They promised to teach you how to be strong and not get your ass kicked, and he even had his kids in the ads doing their martial arts moves. Jhoon Rhee got mugged, and Jhoon Rhee got his ass kicked. He could whip somebody in the dojo who was playing by the rules, but he got out in the real world where bad guys don't give a damn about decorum, where you can be beaten by somebody who's simply bigger and stronger than you and really wants to fuck you up. And he lost. And, as far as Buffy goes, Buffy has powers and shit, so all bets are off. She's not even part of this discussion.
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I don't think that counts as really kicking ass, though.
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