Dupuis and Orsini are reuniting for a TV series about biker gangs.

The pair will star in a six-hour, $10-million production titled The Last Chapter/Le Dernier Chapitre, to be broadcast on CBC Television in English and Radio-Canada in French.

The three-episode miniseries will also star Toronto actor Michael Ironside as the boss of an Ontario biker gang that is at war with its Quebec counterpart. Orsini will play Ironside's wife. Dupuis is cast as Ironside's longtime friend turned rival.

The series will be directed by Richard Roy, whose feature film Cafe Ole opens in Montreal tomorrow. It will be shot in English and French, with filming scheduled to begin in July in Toronto. The Last Chapter is expected to air early next year.

Dupuis and Orsini captivated French-language television viewers 10 years ago when they did Les Filles de Caleb together.

The Last Chapter is not expected to be anything like Hochelaga, Michel Jette's recent movie about biker gangs. Hochelaga took place on the streets; The Last Chapter is set in the biker gangs' boardrooms.

During a recent interview in Toronto, Roy said he agreed to do the series because the script was penned by Luc Dionne, who also wrote Omerta, the popular French-language mob series.

"Luc knows some of these guys and he had them read the script," Roy told the Toronto Star. He said the series will take viewers behind the scenes to reveal the real businessman-biker types.

"It's rare that these guys will ride their Harley-Davidsons, except once a year," Roy said.

Ironside is a veteran character actor who has appeared in such films as The Perfect Storm (as George Clooney's fishing boss), Starship Troopers, Total Recall and Top Gun.

Orsini has been seen most recently as Dr. Lucille Teasdale in the made-for-TV production Dr. Lucille.

Dupuis is best known to English-language TV fans for his ongoing role as the superspy Michael in the series Nikita. That series begins its fifth and final season on CFCF-12 on June 27.

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