'Noir' Action Thriller TV series for Starz in development

[jefferiestubes8]

Starz has picked up an action project from Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert that's based on a Japanese anime TV series.

The premium cable network is developing Noir, a live-action U.S. remake of a 2001 show about two female assassins working in a criminal underworld.

Stephen Lightfoot (Criminal Justice and House of Saddam) is the writer and executive producer.

Raimi and Tapert will exec produce.

Starz Nabs Assassin Project From Sam Raimi

imdb listing:
Noir (TV Series 2001) "Nowâru" (original title)

Noir is a tale of assassins, in particular one named Mireiyu Buke, a contract killer who receives a message from a young girl with no memory about herself, but is an incredibly efficient killing machine. The story takes us on a pilgrimage to the pasts of both girls, which leads them to Paris, France, and someone is trying to stop them...

26 episode series
on DVD - a review
http://www.dvdvisionjapan.com/noir.html

similar to Dollhouse really but also the assassin/spy TV drama genres like
remakes of Charlie's Angels, new series "ECHELON", "Legends", Nikita, Covert Affairs, the cancelled Under Covers, and the 'in development' True Lies series coming, & ABC Family's "Shadows".

related thread about TV spy dramas:
ABC to bring back the early 2000's

 

[lennier1]

I'm really not looking forward to them dumbing it down for the American audience.

 

[PsychoPere]

^ I'm not familiar with the anime series, but Starz at least is a premium cable channel, so it likely has a better shot there than if it were being developed for a broadcast network.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Starz is HBO's sleazy sister, so it might not be dumbed down so much as sleazed up. Not that I begrudge them one iota. They know their market, just like all the other channels do, from turgid, vanilla CBS to daring little AMC. Everyone plays to their audience, that's how they make a buck.

I'm really not looking forward to them dumbing it down for the American audience.

You're in Germany, so what's it to you? Someone got a gun to your head forcing you to dl shows?

My main complaint is that the whole spy/assassin trope has gotten wildly overexposed, and I'd rather see a more original and underexposed premise given a timeslot.