New Knight Rider show in Entertainment Weekly
A 'Knight' to Remember
Nostalgia-happy NBC re-enters the shadowy world of a man who does not exist with its updated take on 'Knight Rider.' By Tanner Stransky
Throwbacks are the new comeback – at least, that seems to be the motton at NBC these days. On the same day that its Bionic Woman remake drew nearly 14 million viewers in its first airing, the networkannounced plans to raid its vault again with a reboot of Knight Rider, the '80s series about a hunky police officer (David Hasselhoff) who chases down perps with the help of a talking car named KITT.
"Our goal is to preserve the comedic adventure and fun from the show," says Doug Liman, who will exec-produce and possibly direct the project, which is being developed as a TV movie slated to air this season. (If it's successful, it could become a series next year.) Liman adds that the tone will fall somewhere between two of the hit movies he's directed – the dead-serious Bourne Identity and the lightweight action romp Mr. & Mrs. Smith. And borrowing from another hit revamp, the new-and-improved KITT will morph, Transofrmers-style.
While '80s-themed projects are capitalizing on a current wave of nostalgia, Liman says Rider wasitching to be remade because it's "the Shakspeare of out generation" – yes, he really said that – "a primal story that can be told over and over." From a network standpoint, adds NBC Entertainment co-chairman Marc Graboff, "You get a built-in awareness." And as for the original Knight himself? Asked about a possible Hasselhoff cameo, Liman teases: "I'm interested in honoring television history in any way that I can."
Originally Posted Here by Michael Pajaro
YES I LOVE KITT AND OWN ALL FOUR SEASONS OF KNIGHT RIDER BUT I WANT THE ORIGINAL KITT MAYBE WITH MORE FEATURES AND ALSO DAVID HASSELHOLF STILL STRONG AND AVAILABLE TO CONTINUE WITH THIS INCLUDING THE ORIGINAL DEVON,APRIL,OTHERWISE NEW ACTORS IS LIKE SUPERMAN WITHOUT CHRISTOPHER REVEE IS NOT THE SAME.
This new series hopefully will fare better then the newer Team Knight Rider that loosely followed the original story line. Since the actor who played Devon has now passed on how cool would it be if Hasselhoff took over Devon Miles Role? And there needs to be another hot "mechanic" for kitt. April was much hotter then Bonnie by the way
Hasselhoff is apparently going to make an appearence in the remake, my thoughts are that he will probably be cast as the founder of Knight industries who passed away in the first couple of episodes after creating the legacy for "Michael Knight". I think that would be a good homage to him without drowning us in constant appearences every few episodes
Great to hear a KNIGHT RIDER TV movie is in the works. Hope it keeps to the original format.A Hasselhoff appearance in some form or fashion would be great & even somehow, a TRANS AM.....
I'd like to see Devon back like the first poster said, But seeing as Edward Mulhare died 10 years ago of lung cancer, It'd be pretty impressive...
KNIGHT RIDER WAS AND ALWAYS WILL BE A SHOW THAT WAS WAY AHEAD OF IT'S TIME WITH A CAR THAT COULD STOP AND DRIVE BY ITSELF AND IF YOU WOULD LIKE MY OPINION WHY DON'T YOU HAVE A SCREEN TEST FOR A NEW MICHAEL KNIGHT AND BRING BACK DAVID HASSELHOFF AS THE NEW OENER OF FLAG SINCE YOU CAN'T GET EDWARD MULHARE WHO PLAYED DEVON FROM 82-86 BECAUSE HE PASSED AWAY MAY HE RIP AND HE WILL FOREVER BE MISSED BY KNIGHT RIDER FANS!! BUT ONE THING I CAN SAY IF YOU DO BRING KNIGHT RIDER BACK KITT HAS TO BE A TRANS AM IT CAN'T BE ANY OTHER CAR BECAUSE IT WOULDN'T LOOK RIGHT
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well kits need to go to another handler for sure
maybe michael could have talks to kitt
but at the end of the movie david no more deserve kitt he left it to the woman
he no more wants to drive kitt
he wants to go fishing instead
kitts new
handler shoul be handsome character wise polite trustwoirthy
maybe with a handsome james bond touch
a more agreessive driver than michel
i mean a big guy
I think you are making the same mistake you did with this so called mustang kitt for example, team knight rider lol that was a very bad insult to all knight rider fans.there wont be a series to this two hour show cause its not going to do good.i have waited to see when they would bring knight rider back,now that i know you all just lazy and picked up a frekin shelby mustang,instead of a pontiac firebird ,the frekin wait was not worth it.somebody better and with a love for knight rider should bought the rights to this show. SINCERLY P.O.
Wow, the english here is awful. I wish KITT would return in Trans AM form, but think that GM is unsure of bringing back Trans AM to the Pontiac line up. I have to admit, KITT does look good as a Mustang. Nice thread, but can we fix the English???
I too wish David Hassellhoff and the original Trans Am KITT would have at least had a major role in this series, even if it had been that Micheal was semi-retired with the old KITT as his personal car, and then his son might need to call on him and the original KITT every now and then for backup help, with the old KITT having many improvements. Mustangs just don't fit the bill. Trans Am's are forever the Knight Rider way, even the last made Trans Am would have been ideal for this show.