CW Picks Up Updated ‘Nikita’ as well as ‘Gilmore’ Creator Drama

The CW is ramping up its lineup with the addition of two new pilots: an update of the 1990s action thriller, La Femme Nikita, and a family drama from Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino.

According to an article on HollywoodReporter.com, “Nikita will give the CW its first nonsupernatural action drama. In this version, Nikita goes rogue, and a new assassin is trained to replace her. . . . The CW also is ordering an untitled family drama set on a Wyoming horse farm that returns Gilmore Girls husband-and-wife producing team Sherman-Palladino and Dan Palladino to the network.”

The original Nikita was a French film made by Luc Besson in 1990 about a young criminal trained to be an assassin by a top-secret government organization. In 1993, it was remade into a U.S. film, entitled Point of No Return, which starred Bridget Fonda and Gabriel Byrne. In 1997, the story was the premise behind a television series, entitled La Femme Nikita, on the USA Network, which starred Peta Wilson, who starred in the 2003 action/fantasy motion picture, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, which also featured Sean Connery and Stuart Townsend, who played the vampire Lestat in 2002’s Queen of the Damned.

Meanwhile, McG will be the showrunner of the Nikita remake along with Peter Johnson and Craig Silver, who were the showrunners of a handful of episodes of the Fox police dramedy series, Bones, and the Fox serial drama, K-Ville. The show is from Warner Bros. and Wonderland Productions.

The HollywoodReporter.com article goes on to mention, “The CW also is ordering an untitled family drama set on a Wyoming horse farm that returns Gilmore Girls husband-and-wife producing team Sherman-Palladino and Dan Palladino to the network. The Wyoming project is from Warner Bros. and CBS TV Studio.”