Why I believe a Knight RIder movie/series won't work anymore
Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2016 9:07 am
Hey guys,
before your going to lynch me or something else, let me hear you out.
I wouldn't have made this statement, if I really haven't thought about it long and hard. It's just a sad realisation, I had when I was again in a "Knight Rider" binge watch mood. While I would really really really see such as a big silver screen movie, I do believe it won't do good to Knight Rider. Why?
Knight Rider was a child of it's time, the 80's. I recently watched the documentary "CNN: The Eighties - Raised on Television" as one member here pointed out, that Knight Rider was in the promo (actually, there was no honorary mention, which was disappointing ). In the 80's, TV wasn't second class anymore, people are engaged in the stories told on the small screen week by week. Knight Rider was new and fresh and so avant garde in terms of technological "fantasy", I quoted the word fantasy by design, since it has ecome reality and I think one of the major reasons, why Knight Rider won't work today.
Knight Rider and KITT especially as we know, was the first car to feature digital readouts. Knight Rider was the first series to feature full synthesizer theme in a series, which was only accompanying a more traditional instrumental theme. KITT showed something magical, the computer era was born and the technological advancement and technological believe, that everything was possible was real. But in retrospective, more than 30 years after, you'll see that nearly everything we have now in your cars, have been pioneered by KITT, the car of the future (then indeed!).
Now, autonomous cars are coming which are inspired by Knight Rider. KITT had follwing technological features that are now common place.
Radar sensors for naviagtion, camera pattern recognition for track keeping, cruise control, automated parking, GPS Satellite Navigation, Satellite Communication, modem communication to remote computer and databases, anti collision control (I guess that's the ACC on the voice box), single/double display for maps, systems self diagnositics, position tracking of other cars, fingerprint scanner on the car door handle, digital compass, short route calculation, video calls, speakerphone for call ins, and many more. Even the Comlink was the first smartwatch to be ever featured.
KITT became real in the sense of technological feature, which was unthinkable 30 years ago. Now, 30 years later, no one would be impressed with those capabilities. Yes, there are things like Turbo Boost , Micro Jam, remote Lock pick or laser restraints, which are clearly fantasy. My point is, there's not much to show, which could make your jaw drop. Knight Rider has become a what I consider a "frozen time remanent", something that was technological avant garde, but won't translate to today's technological advancement. Even if the story would be retold as it would happen today as Glen intended, I don't believe anything would work to intrigue the audience today to tune into Knight Rider. It would a fan pandering and nostalgia cash in like the Ghostbusters reboot.
before your going to lynch me or something else, let me hear you out.
I wouldn't have made this statement, if I really haven't thought about it long and hard. It's just a sad realisation, I had when I was again in a "Knight Rider" binge watch mood. While I would really really really see such as a big silver screen movie, I do believe it won't do good to Knight Rider. Why?
Knight Rider was a child of it's time, the 80's. I recently watched the documentary "CNN: The Eighties - Raised on Television" as one member here pointed out, that Knight Rider was in the promo (actually, there was no honorary mention, which was disappointing ). In the 80's, TV wasn't second class anymore, people are engaged in the stories told on the small screen week by week. Knight Rider was new and fresh and so avant garde in terms of technological "fantasy", I quoted the word fantasy by design, since it has ecome reality and I think one of the major reasons, why Knight Rider won't work today.
Knight Rider and KITT especially as we know, was the first car to feature digital readouts. Knight Rider was the first series to feature full synthesizer theme in a series, which was only accompanying a more traditional instrumental theme. KITT showed something magical, the computer era was born and the technological advancement and technological believe, that everything was possible was real. But in retrospective, more than 30 years after, you'll see that nearly everything we have now in your cars, have been pioneered by KITT, the car of the future (then indeed!).
Now, autonomous cars are coming which are inspired by Knight Rider. KITT had follwing technological features that are now common place.
Radar sensors for naviagtion, camera pattern recognition for track keeping, cruise control, automated parking, GPS Satellite Navigation, Satellite Communication, modem communication to remote computer and databases, anti collision control (I guess that's the ACC on the voice box), single/double display for maps, systems self diagnositics, position tracking of other cars, fingerprint scanner on the car door handle, digital compass, short route calculation, video calls, speakerphone for call ins, and many more. Even the Comlink was the first smartwatch to be ever featured.
KITT became real in the sense of technological feature, which was unthinkable 30 years ago. Now, 30 years later, no one would be impressed with those capabilities. Yes, there are things like Turbo Boost , Micro Jam, remote Lock pick or laser restraints, which are clearly fantasy. My point is, there's not much to show, which could make your jaw drop. Knight Rider has become a what I consider a "frozen time remanent", something that was technological avant garde, but won't translate to today's technological advancement. Even if the story would be retold as it would happen today as Glen intended, I don't believe anything would work to intrigue the audience today to tune into Knight Rider. It would a fan pandering and nostalgia cash in like the Ghostbusters reboot.