FF:NZ Knight Rider is back!! Woo-hoo!

YIPPEE!!! WOO-HOO!!!

BREAKING NEWS!
MARCH 19, 2002
Daily Variety

Revolution Studios is teaming with Mayhem Pictures partners Mark
Ciardi and Gordon Gray for a souped up feature version of "Knight
Rider," the NBC drama that starred David Hasselhoff and a car voiced
by former SAG prexy William Daniels.

The vehicle is being overhauled to fit in with the action-oriented
youthful demo Revolution is gunning for with its summer entry "XXX."
Hasselhoff will exec produce the film along with series creator Glen
A. Larson. Larson has been signed to write the first script draft.

Along with Mark Johnson, Ciardi and Gray produced "The Rookie," the
upcoming fact-based Disney film. The duo also produced with John
Strauss the Ed Decter-directed Revolution comedy "The New Guy," which
bows May 10.

The "Knight Rider" concept revolved around crime fighter Michael
Knight and his partner, a sleek black customized Pontiac Trans Am that
could travel 300 mph and leap 50 feet into the air.

In the deal brokered for him and Larson by ICM, Hasselhoff will have
input in the film, and he is also expected to play an onscreen role.

Hopefully they don't muck about "updating" the show too much.

 

Wow, cool. I wonder what they'll stick Kitt in now; I remember in the last movie he was in a chevvy for most of the time, then they stuck him in a ferrari at the end.

 

... when all we wanted was the black Trans Am.

Knight Rider was always about the black Trans Am, not David Freakin Hasselhof.

I'm still bitter about that movie. Didn't they also kill Devon?

 

Apparently they killed Devon, because it was a potential pilot for a new KR tv series (it was a made for tv movie), but they never went ahead with it.

I haven't seen it in ages, but I've got it on a tape somewhere.
Kitt being in the chevy was pretty funny, but they should have put him back in the trans-am within ten minutes or so.

I think the whole problem with the movie was it was a bit sinister. All that stuff about implanting microchips in someone's brain and freezing criminals ... wasn't really in the flavour of the original series.

The series relied a lot on that light-hearted humor ... the love triangle between Bonnie, Michael and Kitt for instance.

 

And Devon, April and KARR.

 

OK, I must have been too young last time I saw it because that one went over my head

 

You don't remember April and KARR?