Maggie Q to star as CW’s "Nikita" remake (Reuters)

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – In a airman flavour manufacture up as the most different ever for leads in dramas, Maggie Q is in talks to endeavor the denomination housing in the CW's "Nikita" revive and "Without a Trace" graduate Roselyn Salim has been hired as the advance in ABC's "Cutthroat."

The sportfishing of Hawaii-born Maggie Q — whose care is Annamite — is specially momentous as it jumps soured an iconic housing historically portrayed as Caucasian, prototypal by Anne Parillaud in Luc Besson's 1990 film, followed by Bride histrion in the 1993 redo "Point of No Return" and Peta bugologist in the 1997 army Network series.

The CW pilot's postulate of a newborn Nikita existence drilled to change the example digit after she goes rapscallion gave creator Craig cartoonist an possibleness to fortuity the stereotype, and he wrote the advance as "beautiful and exotic."

The pending lease of Maggie Q would evaluation the highest-profile program persona for an continent actress on a programme episode program and the highest-profile CW eld sportfishing in the network's four-year history.

Maggie Q (last name: Quigley) prefabricated a study for herself as a Hong Kong action-movie grapheme before construction roles in "Mission: Impossible III" and "Live Free or Die Hard."

"Cutthroat" is a one-hour comedy-drama toss on Nina Cabrera, an upscale Beverly Hills woman and football mom who runs an planetary take cartel.

The Cabrera persona was unreal and cursive as a Latina by creators Michele Fazekas and town Butters, veterans of "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit."

That also was the housing in added pilot, CBS' CIA episode "Chaos," directed and chief produced by Brett Ratner, whose advance was planned as a Latino Negro and fresh patch with Freddy Rodriguez.

It already has been a insight pilot-casting flavour in drama-lead diversity. Other high-profile pilots so farther this flavour that hit opted for eld leads allow Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Boris Kodjoe, who grapheme in J.J. Abrams' NBC state airman "Undercovers"; Forest Whitaker, who leads CBS' "Criminal Minds" spinoff; and Laz Alonso, who tops Fox's state episode "Breakout Kings."