The Nikita character has seen several iterations, from Anne Parillaud in Luc Besson’s La Femme Nikita, to Bridget Fonda as the worst female action star ever in Point of No Return, to Peta Wilson in the Canadian television series that involved Nikita fighting beaver poachers and drunk ice fishermen (probably).
Next fall, the CW will air another remake/reboot/re-whatever starring Maggie Q, AKA the Asian chick that Bruce Willis killed in Live Free or Die Hard. The trailer below hits many of the right wickets — Maggie Q in a bikini, Maggie Q in lingerie, Maggie Q in bed, Maggie Q in lingerie WITH GUNS, Maggie Q in black leather, etc. — but still suffers from a distinct case of CW-itis: bad dialog, bag acting, bad music… pretty much bad everything else. I give this two thumbs down in a reverse wanking motion.
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I prefer to think of Maggie Q as the Asian chick who Tom Cruise didn’t bang (of course) in Mission Impossible III.
Jesus fuckin’ Christ, that bitch is skinny and frail-lookin’ even by Hollywood standards. I know they have been trying hard for the past 20 years to nail this “Femme Fatale” thing, but they are just making a pile of fail in a bowl of sadness.
Why cant all women be half asian?
@CrabApple
They all drive like they’re 95% Asian.
Can’t Luc Besson at least try to get Natalie Portman to reprise her role as Mathilda for the mythical sequel to Leon? Polanski was keen to helm it, he even offered to waive his fee but that’s because he thought they said prequel.
the Peta Wilson version wasnt bad. It helped pass the slow nights when bartending.
I’d like to show tiny, skinny Maggie Q some of my moves in the Octagon.
I know it’s necessary to willingly suspend disbelief when watching any of the Die Hard movies, but when Maggie Q’s character survives getting hit by an SUV traveling at about 40 mph and slammed through a wall with no visible injury whatsoever, it was just too damned ridiculous to tolerate.
I wonder if Timothy Olyphant got to bang her. Probably, right?
She’s so frail I doubt she could give a decent massage…happy ending maybe.
J-that was righteous.
they said they would remake Alias, but I didn’t realize it would be so soon
In that case it would be Arias.
Maybe they could use a symphony too.
Lame. They already made an Asian “La Femme Nikita,” back in 1991. It was called Black Cat. Seriously:
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Congratulations, CW! It looks like you’ve made a worse show than USA did back in their Silk Stalkings phase. All honor and glory to thee.
As a Canadian and a lesbian I thoroughly enjoyed the Peta Wilson La Femme Nikita. Peta was a gateay lesbian icon for me in the mid 90s – she made out with bisexual Angelina Jolie at a Cable Ace awards back then for godsake!
And it is for this reason alone (and because of my odd weakness for CW shows) that I’m gonna watch this Nikita redo. That and I’m a total rice queen.
“A secret division of the CIA has lost their most dangerous weapon…”
Her?
Maggie Q was redunkulously hot in MI:3.
WEll, looks like she lost some weight.
Now she looks like she would break a bone trying to pull off half the crap she does in that trailer.
Agree zimbabwebob. The part where she drove up in that lamborghini… *drool*
I didnt watch any previous movies with her, but I just think she looks really skinny and kinda old (maybe cause her face being too skinny). Looked up some pictures of her from MI3 and it seems she did lose weight. Anyways, this show seems crappy.