Modesty Blaise
From amnesiac child to head of a criminal network, the beautiful (and, of course, deadly) Modesty Blaise has quite the checkered past – but Peter O’Donnell’s newspaper strip heroine found fame as a secret agent who’d give James Bond a run for his money. She’s appeared in (terrible) movies, comic books and novels, and her fans include Quentin Tarantino and Nicole Kidman, who once expressed interest in starring in a modern Modesty movie. If Nikita manages to launch a new fad for spy TV, someone should snatch this up for adaptation as soon as possible.
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