THR has revealed that The CW has put in a pilot order for a new television series based on La Femme Nikita. Peter Johnson and McG, both of Supernatural, will be executive producers.
This is not the first time La Femme Nikita has been done as a TV series. A previous adaptation ran from 1997 to 2001 on the USA Network. The concept is based on a French film titled Nikita about a young criminal who is trained to be an assassin by a government organization. It was remade as a film in 1993 called Point Of No Return which starred Bridget Fonda. THR reports that in this version, Nikita goes rogue and a new assassin is trained to replace her.
The appointment of an action drama to The CW’s development is a welcome one, as most of the other announced projects from the network seem to fall into the network’s tried-and-true “rich white girls” formula. This could be an opportunity for the network to do something different and exciting, much like The Vampire Diaries had been for them in this past year.
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