NBC Revive Knight Rider

[ZariusTwo]

US broadcasting giant NBC is planning to bring 'Knight Rider' back to TV screens.

Variety reports that NBC has hired 'Mr and Mrs Smith' and 'The Bourne Identity' director Doug Liman to produce a 'Transformers'-inspired reworking of the 1980s series about the crusading Michael Knight and his computerised car KITT.

KITT could shift shapes in the new series, which could also see battles involving 'evil' cars.

The trade daily says NBC is developing a two-hour pilot episode and hopes to air it as a TV movie in the US later this year; if that goes well a full series could be on air by next autumn.

Aside from producing the pilot, Liman may also sit in the director's chair.

http://www.rte.ie/arts/2007/0927/knightrider.html

This news likely means Larson's attempt at a Knight Rider movie has either become a new series, or there moving ahead without him and doing a series in spite of his idea for a film. I hope Hasselhoff is given a small role as either a mentor character or the voice of K.I.T.T if they cant get William Daniels to reprise his role.

[Drtooth]

Originally Posted by ZariusTwo

I hope Hasselhoff is given a small role as either a mentor character or the voice of K.I.T.T if they cant get William Daniels to reprise his role.

Why wouldn't they be able to get William Daniels? Not like he's doin' too much. And he did play Nightrider on an episode of the Simpsons a few years back...

[Raph's Girl]

KITT could shift shapes in the new series, which could also see battles involving 'evil' cars.

Evil cars??? LIke Team Knight Rider wasn't bad enough! Im all for a new Knight Rider series if the Hoff actually shows up with K.I.T.T....but after Team Knight Rider...I dunno....

But K.I.T.T being a shape shifter? Um... Why don't they just go and make a live action Transformers series cuz with K.I.T.T fighting evil cars and shape shifting that's what this new Knight Rider thing sounds like!

[JetsAndHeels]

Somewhere Michael Bay is placing a phone call to NBC.

[ZariusTwo]

Originally Posted by Raph's Girl

But K.I.T.T being a shape shifter? Um... Why don't they just go and make a live action Transformers series cuz with K.I.T.T fighting evil cars and shape shifting that's what this new Knight Rider thing sounds like!

Actually, K.I.T.T morphing would be more like VIPER.

[Raph's Girl]

Originally Posted by ZariusTwo

Actually, K.I.T.T morphing would be more like VIPER.

WTF?! I've never heard of that series and it aired from 1994 - 1999 on NBC and Syndication. Weird....looked like a major Knight Rider rip-off.

[ZariusTwo]

Originally Posted by Raph's Girl

WTF?! I've never heard of that series and it aired from 1994 - 1999 on NBC and Syndication. Weird....looked like a major Knight Rider rip-off.

VIPER was fairly popular and has a major cult following, it wasnt called the "Knight Rider" of the 1990s for nothing, as it was a deliberate homage to Knight Rider, right down to the driver having a new identity (only he was a criminal, not a cop as Michael was) with a car that could do the impossible. The original star of the series who drove the car (not seen in this season three intro, he only appeared in seasons one and four) eventually voiced Max Payne.

Fans of the series consider it NBC's only success in duplicating what made KR's formula work. Check it out, it's more than worth it.

The irony is that the homage was actually ripped-off.

[Barkworm]

Originally Posted by Raph's Girl

Evil cars??? LIke Team Knight Rider wasn't bad enough!

Actually there was an evil car (called KARR) in the original Knight Rider. It was the "evil twin" of KITT.

[GK Punk]

Originally Posted by Barkworm

Actually there was an evil car (called KARR) in the original Knight Rider. It was the "evil twin" of KITT.

Sure, a German would know that. You crazy kids and your love for "The Hoff"

[Barkworm]

You know, when I was seven my favourite song in the world was Hasselhoff's "Looking for Freedom" and I'M NOT KIDDING!!!

[GK Punk]

I've never even heard any of his song haha. It's okay, I loved Billy Joel when I was like 5. That's right, you heard me.

[ZariusTwo]

Hooked On A Feeling!

[Raph's Girl]

Aaand casting is now going for this made for tv movie that might become a lead in to a tv series! Sorry folks...no Hoff this time around....but we get Michael Knight's never before heard of son!

Meet the new Knight Rider.

"All My Children" hunk Justin Bruening is set as the lead in NBC's two-hour movie "Knight Rider," a "Transformers"-inspired sequel to the 1980s series about a man and his talking car. If successful, the movie could lay the groundwork for a new series.

Bruening will play the son of Michael Knight, the character played by David Hasselhoff in the original series. And like father, like son, the choice of Bruening closely resembles Hasselhoff's casting a quarter-century ago.

Like Bruening, Hasselhoff was a soap star ("The Young & the Restless") with few other credits when he landed "Knight Rider." He was almost the same age as Bruening, who is 28.

Bruening also follows in the footsteps of fellow "Children" alum Josh Duhamel, who made the transition to a primetime leading man as the star of NBC's "Las Vegas."

Bruening plays Jamie Martin on "Children" and also had a role on the ABC soap "One Life to Live."

I found a picture of him and I have to say that he's not a hunk and I can't picture him as the son of the Hoff. :/
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1472010/

[Buslady]

This only proves that there is no creativity left in the TV biz. Now let's make KITT a transformer.
Theres only one KITT, he's a computer in a 83 Trans Am...didn't like that TVM where KITT was a red car/boat thingy...but it was funny him in the old Bel Aire or whatever it was...

nah that kid doenst look like he'd be remotely related to Michael Knight. LOL!!

I barely remember Viper...

[ZariusTwo]

That TMNT cartoon is NOTHING like the original, it sucks

I still see people complain about the modern Galactica, yet it's the best american science-fiction series presently airing beyond anything with "Stargate" in the title. Great writing, dynamic and conflicted characters, and it makes use of everything from the religious overtones, to a bleak militant attitude, to politics, to human Cylons (and anyone who watched Galactica 1980 knows that isnt even new).

[Raph's Girl]

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index...ory=0&id=45572

Actress Sydney Poitier (Grindhouse) has landed a role on NBC's two-hour movie Knight Rider, which will serve as a pilot for a possible remake of the TV series about a man and his talking car, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The Transformers-inspired sequel centers on Mike Tracer (Justin Bruening), the son of Michael Knight, the character played by David Hasselhoff in the original show. Poitier will play a feisty FBI agent who dislikes Mike.

Poitier, youngest daughter of actor Sidney Poitier, starred in Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof portion of the Grindhouse double feature, as well as in the CW series Veronica Mars.

Mike Tracer??? Im assuming that's his mom's surname?

[Machias Banshee]

I'm certainly looking forward to hearing more updates about this. We loved Knight Rider in my youth, and I Looooooved Viper, even if it WAS just a giant commercial for Dodge (still want one!), plus having the original Hoff around will be really nice to see...

I just hope they don't turn KITT into a Prius...

[Raph's Girl]

Looks like Da Hoff himself will be appearing in this film! Yay! Phew! Also the movie now has a plot! And an interesting one at that! Looks like KITT is the star of the film!! YEA!! WOOHOO!! GOO KITT!!! Save the day!!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071120/...asselhoff_dc_1

David Hasselhoff is in talks to appear on NBC's "Knight Rider," reprising his role as Michael Knight from the original series. Also cast in the movie/pilot is Deanna Russo of "The Young & the Restless," who will play the female lead opposite fellow soap star Justin Bruening.

"Rider" is a sequel to the 1980s series that centers on Mike Tracer (Bruening), Michael Knight's son who never knew his dad.

Burned by his love for childhood best friend and one-time girlfriend Sarah Kamen (Russo), Mike is wasting away in Las Vegas when Sarah reappears and is willing to pay off Mike's gambling debt in exchange for help.

Sarah is the brilliant estranged daughter of KITT inventor Charles Kamen, who works as an assistant professor in the engineering department at Stanford. When she receives word from talking-car KITT (Knight Industries Three Thousand) that her father is missing, she and KITT set out to find and recruit Mike.

[Dr. Doom]

Sounds kinda interesting, actually. How's it gonna have a script?

[Raph's Girl]

http://jalopnik.com/cars/knight-ride...0kr-327687.php
There's images up of the NEW Kitt car.... KITT is now a black-with-gray-stripes 550 HP Ford Shelby GT500KR Mustang.

WTF?!



That is one ugly looking car...no offense to Caroll Shelby or anything....