By | Published February 20, 2010

Action starlet Maggie Q is in talks to play the lead role in a new NIKITA TV series in development at the CW network.

NIKITA originated as a 1990 feature film from French filmmaker Luc Besson. It starred Anne Parillaud as an unsophisticated young woman in trouble with authorities who is taken in by a secret organization that trains her to become a suave assassin.

Jade Leung starred in director Stephen Shin’s unofficial Hong Kong remake BLACK CAT (1991) and its sequel BLACK CAT 2 (1992). NIKITA was officially remade in Hollywood in 1993 as POINT OF NO RETURN with Bridget Fonda starring. A successful TV series adaptation premiered in 1997 with Peta Wilson in the lead. It lasted for five seasons.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the new series will see a new Nikita being trained to replace the original who has gone rogue.

Maggie Q, a Hawaiian-born model-turned-actress is a veteran of Hong Kong action cinema who has essentially already played this character. Her first lead role was as an assassin in producer Wong Jing’s 2002 knockoff of NIKITA called NAKED WEAPON.

She has since appeared in actioners on both sides of the Pacific including DRAGON SQUAD, MISSION IMPOSSIBLE III and LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD. More recently she has starred in Chinese historical epics THREE KINGDOMS: RESURRECTION OF THE DRAGON and THE WARRIOR AND THE WOLF. Maggie Q will next be seen in fighting video game adaptation THE KING OF FIGHTERS and the horror Western PRIEST opposite LEGION star Paul Bellany.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

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  • brian

    oh god no.. what a bad choice.. hope not!!!! not a nikita at all.. no class

  • Stephanie

    Brian, you are a hater and uneducated person with your comment. Maggie is great and she will bring the best to this role.

  • Fan

    Maggie Q is gorgeous and it will be nice to see Nikita portrayed by a non-caucausin person for a change.

  • their fan

    Maggie Q and Kristin Kreuk are the most beautiful exotic actresses out there. Maggie will be Nikita and Kristin will lead a new show Hitched on CBS too. Yea!!! :)

  • Dave

    Maggie is beautiful. I think she will be fine for the role

  • Deke

    Better villainess than heroine imo.

  • Big fan

    I think Maggie is a perfect fit for the role. One, she can fight and kick ass…she learned how to fight at the young age. Two, she has this toughest in her to play Nikita character.

  • BruisedLo

    don't even start… she sucks. i don't think she's that talented.

    in rush hour 2, we see a little of maggie, and i'm sure most of you don't even know it was her. anyone like gen-Y-cops? i wasn't exactly impress with her performance. and the stuff that she's been doing, i dunno, its always like a so-so or a okay. sorry but i'm not interested in seeing more of her in any film.

  • fasho

    does naked weapon mean anything =]

  • http://www.facebook.com/musicvibes Kevin Celebi

    Wow…she may normally look good, but she looks like a class A hot mess in that photo, yikes

  • JT

    I'm officially interested in this Nikita series if Maggie Q is the lead! She's so hot and can do a good job kicking ass, not great but good enough for TV

  • eternityblack

    This is a good and bad thing for her. ITs good being the first Asian lead on a CW show and more people will get to know her. Its bad because in America, TV is not as lucrative as it is overseas and she started acting in some high profile films. and the show will be on CW which is Gossip Girl and 90210, etc.