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According to The Futon Critic, Lyndsy Fonseca (How I Met Your Mother), Aaron Stanford (X2, Traveler) and Melinda Clarke (The OC) have joined CW's Nikita remake. Clarke will play Amanda, a division operative who sounds an awful lot like Madeline from La Femme Nikita, while Stanford will play Birkhoff, a computer specialist who's a direct steal from LFN. Another character lifted from LFN is Shane West's "Michael", who trains the new recruits into becoming happy little government assassins. Fonseca's character, though, is interesting:
'She'll play Alex, a 19-year-old felon who - after being sentenced to 25 years in a federal penitentiary - is recruited by a secret government agency to hunt down the title character (Maggie Q), her predecessor. She's detailed as an "attractive, young, white female with virtually no personal ties or paper trail," a profile which is deemed ideal for their kind of work.'
The Hollywood Reporter has so far been saying that Maggie Q. is playing the new recruit; but given the relative ages of Lyndsy Fonseca and Maggie Q. (23 and 30), I'm starting to lean toward The Futon Critic on this. Which is discouraging, because now it sounds like Maggie isn't actually the female lead at all, and it's going to be Bionic Woman all over again. (Spoiler TV)
ETA: If you're in the US, apparently you can watch all all 5 seasons (96 episodes) of USA Network's La Femme Nikita here at the WB website.
Amanda Seyfried (Mama Mia!, Big Love) is in talks to star in The Girl with the Red Riding Hood, a fresh take on the fairytale directed by Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight). Hardwicke discribes it as "a wild, thrilling mystery in this great Gothic fairytale setting. It’s very sexy, romantic and scary." (The Playlist)
Andy Tudyk (Dollhouse, Firefly) is set to star opposite Dermot Mulroney in NBC's pilot Rockford Files, a remake of the classic 1970s P.I. series. Written by House creator David Shore, Rockford Files stars Mulroney as Jim Rockford, who is "slightly crumpled, wry humored, cynical, world weary, compassionate when it's called for and easily irritated by morons." Tudyk will play Det. Dennis Becker, a friend of Rockford's who is a bit embarrassed by that since all the other cops hate Rockford. (THR)
Warner Bros. wants to give Renaissance polymath/genius Leonardo da Vinci the same action-hero treatment it gave Sherlock Holmes - and maybe throw in some actual demonic spirits while they're at it:
'The project re-imagines Da Vinci as a member of a secret society who falls headlong into a supernatural adventure that pits the man against Biblical demons in a story involving secret codes, lost civilizations, hidden fortresses and fallen angels. Think "National Treasure" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark" by way of "Clash of the Titans."'
This sounds just marginally less moronic than the Marco Polo-meets-the-mystical-Far-East pic that the studio also has planned. Also, if you're going to mythologise such a famous historical figure, you'd better come ready to deal with all his baggage, ie. the charges that Da Vinci was atheist and/or gay/bisexual. (The Playlist)
Teaser trailer for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.
Richard Kind (A Serious Man) and Ian Hart (Dirt) are the latest additions to the cast of Luck, HBO's pilot about the world of horse racing, scripted by David Milch (Deadwood) and directed by Michael Mann (Heat). They join Dustin Hoffman, Dennis Farina, John Ortiz, Nick Nolte, Kevin Dunn, Tom Payne and Kerry Cordon. (Variety)
Jim Sturgess and Anna Hathaway are attached to star in One Day, a romantic comedy centering on Emma (Hathaway) and Dexter (Sturgess), who first meet during their graduation in 1988, which then proceeds to revisit them both on the same day each year for the next 20 years. Based on the novel by David Nicholls, the film is directed by Lone Scherfig (An Education). (Coming Soon)
Charlie Rose talks to Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon about their movie Green Zone.
Loads of hi-res stills from Clash of the Titans, starring Sam Worthington. [imdb]