Casting is now beginning for The CW’s Nikita, and with the start of the process comes some news about the series.
In this version of the story, as previously reported, Nikita has gotten away from the organization that once brought her in, and it sounds like her onetime captors are determined to bring her back. There’s a character named “Alex” who is being cast, who has an origin similar to Nikita’s, in that she was imprisoned for a crime she says she did not commit and then had a faked suicide that brought her into the fold.
Like before, there IS a character named Michael, who might be the same character from the earlier La Femme Nikita series reinvented. It has not yet been said or announced whether or not this series follows the continuity of the USA Network series, though it is unlikely; however, he does have a “past” with Nikita.
It sounds like the parallels between the life of Nikita, who got out – and Alex, who didn’t – will be explored. It sounds as though Nikita is as much, if not more, of a presence in this as Alex is.
Other characters of this new take (names subject to change) are “Amanda,” a character who sounds a bit like the original series’ “Madeline,” an associate of Michael’s named Percy, and Thom and Jaden, two other young recruits to the program alongside Alex.
The people Alex is recruited to work for – the group who Nikita escaped from – is referred to here as “The Division.”
