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since were on this strange casting idea, hell why dont we get hulk hogan to play michael knight and kitt can be his tag team wrestling partner.lolseeker78 wrote:hmm what racial differences? the driver for the new movie has to look like David Hasselhoff? Isn't he already going to be playing a Devon type character?
Denzel Washington would be good too, but he's too old, I think.
Vince Vaughn, hmm I don't know about that one. Maybe. Every time I see him I think of dodgeball, lmao.
How about Jay Hernandez? Jaimie Fox?
LOL!!!!knightprobe89 wrote:since were on this strange casting idea, hell why dont we get hulk hogan to play michael knight and kitt can be his tag team wrestling partner.lol
I agree, Tom Welling would be good too!young-nyc wrote:actually now you mention it, i wouldn't mind seeing tom welling as michael knight.
i just hope it's not ashton kutcher.
Well, I'm not with you there, I think that's where I diverge from most other posters on this. The only time the driver would need to be a white male is if he is supposed to be a direct descendant of MK.i always pictured MK as a white male, it's like what if they cast Russell wong or Jet Li as MK?
it would be too weird.
Yes, exactly. I completely agree. That's what I was saying.Knight Rider Archive wrote: Personally, I don't have a problem with Will Smith in the role... He can do serious, he can do comedy, he can do action, and those are the qualities that are needed for Michael Knight.
But see, that's where you're wrong about Will Smith.Lost Knight wrote:I do have a problem with the idea of Will Smith being a driver in the movie. I even think it's an absurd idea. Why? Because while there are valid points about the movie being a blank slate, that doesn't mean everything has to be the opposite of what it once was (and really, the two main ingredients here are the car and the driver).
I wasn't suggesting change for change's sake, just that when they're casting this thing they need to hire whoever best fits the part of Michael Knight as to his character in Larson's script. That might be a white guy, it could be a black actor. Who knows? The original script for the 1982 pilot didn't specifically say Michael Long/Knight was white... will the script for the feature film? Does he need to be white? Interesting issues. As I said before, I'm sure that the actor will need to be able to do "serious", do comedy, do action, and most importantly of all, make us believe that the car is "real"... that the AI is really interacting with him. Hasselhoff doesn't get enough credit for the job he did in all of those areas in the series. Will Smith is a good example of an actor that has all those qualities in movies he has made over the last ten years. Of course, he won't be Michael Knight... he's too old to be a "young loner" now.Lost Knight wrote:
I do have a problem with the idea of Will Smith being a driver in the movie. I even think it's an absurd idea. Why? Because while there are valid points about the movie being a blank slate, that doesn't mean everything has to be the opposite of what it once was (and really, the two main ingredients here are the car and the driver).
I think that the fact that the (feature) movie is being written and exec-produced by Glen Larson, some people are confused about what will be delivered. As Victor has stated, Larson's script will remain faithful to the spirit of the original show. It will not be the original show. It's a reboot, a fresh start, a new take for the 21st Century. Not a continuation, but a new story and universe in which the old show never existed. Of course there will be changes, and some of them will be radical. That's a given. There are a hell of a lot of concepts that will be dropped from the original, and a lot of new material that will be added in its place, and rightfully so. I'm sure that Larson thought long and hard about what worked in the original show, but he will also take into account what works now and act on that. Not change for change's sake, as I said before, but he should not be afraid to make radical changes either if the changes work for the story.Lost Knight wrote:
The bottom line here is that while things need to change, the changes shouldn't be too radical.
Yes, exactly. I agree.Knight Rider Archive wrote: I wasn't suggesting change for change's sake, just that when they're casting this thing they need to hire whoever best fits the part of Michael Knight as to his character in Larson's script. That might be a white guy, it could be a black actor. Who knows?
If we're to use this same logic, that means K.I.T.T. could be a tank or an SUV. As long as the voice actor fits the part and the car can do the required stunts, why not? This logic misses the point. It means that nothing is sacred. Making too many radical changes diverts away from respect of the original source material. This caters more to brand new fans of the franchise than it does to the die-hard fans who have supported the show for 25+ years. There needs to be more evident traces as to what this new film is built upon. And for the record, if Michael Knight was originally African-American, I'd be arguing the point that the new actor should be, too.Knight Rider Archive wrote:I wasn't suggesting change for change's sake, just that when they're casting this thing they need to hire whoever best fits the part of Michael Knight as to his character in Larson's script. That might be a white guy, it could be a black actor. Who knows?
It's an argument of semantics -- there can (and will) be radical changes, yet the new script will still honour and respect the spirit of the original work. What changes, how many, and how they're executed, will all be up to Larson and the Weinstein Corporation. Whatever happens, the movie, with Larson's involvement or not, will undoubtedly split the fan reactions as much as the NBC project has: some will end up loving it, some will end up hating it, but it will create lots of new fans and interest in Knight Rider regardless of peoples' familiarity with the original show. Unfortunately, whatever creative decisions they make, they can't please everybody.Lost Knight wrote:This logic misses the point. It means that nothing is sacred. Making too many radical changes diverts away from respect of the original source material.
That pretty much sums it up; from a business stand-point, they know they already have our money at the box-office. Everybody on all of these boards are going to see this movie, most more than once. In that respect, it's the new fans that they will be trying to reach out to in order to get behinds on seats at the cinema, and create huge box office returns.Lost Knight wrote:This caters more to brand new fans of the franchise than it does to the die-hard fans who have supported the show for 25+ years.
The thing is: since Victor is more or less a liason for Glen and has stressed to him the importance of fan input in choosing the vehicle, that says to me that the creative decisions for this project go beyond money (so far). I wish I could say the same for NBC Universal, in which case I agree with you. How much interference The Weinstein Co. is going to have may involve appealing to the newer fans, but I can only speculate since we haven't read the script. But, based on everything I've read thus far, the script will maintain the same spirit of the original show, which caters more to the original fans. As you said, the questions become: How much to change? How big should the changes be? What should be changed and what should be left alone, if anything?Knight Rider Archive wrote:That pretty much sums it up; from a business stand-point, they know they already have our money at the box-office. Everybody on all of these boards are going to see this movie, most more than once. In that respect, it's the new fans that they will be trying to reach out to in order to get behinds on seats at the cinema, and create huge box office returns.