Knight Rider. Knight Rider is coming back to TV. That’s right, apparently some NBC execs saw Transformers and thought the same thing I did – "Hey, this reminds me of KITT." Only they also thought it’d be a good idea to do a remake of Knight Rider. They want Doug Liman (Swingers, Go) to direct a two-hour "backdoor" pilot.
It’s also likely the new show will explore the idea of "evil" cars to offset the heroic talking K.I.T.T. car of the original.. That said, skein is expected to essentially remain focused on the story of a single man fighting for justice with the help of his superadvanced car.
Lame. I think Knight Rider is a great idea, but only if Hasselhoff comes back and it’s a made-for-TV movie about the dangers of drunken driving. "You’ve had too much to drink, Michael. Calling your ex-girfriend is a bad idea, Michael. You’ve ordered far too many tacos, Michael. Put your shirt back on, Michael. Chewing gum won’t help you pass a breathalyzer, Michael. You’ve parked me on the lawn again, Michael." Pff, nagging ass cars. Who needs em. [via IESB]
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Michael Knight:"Hey Kit, can you videotape me if I get drunk again? I have a job tomorrow."
Child:"I’m your daughter and not a talking car dad. Quit getting shitfaced and putting on that smelly leather jacket."
‘A two-hour "backdoor" pilot’? Just when I thought that show couldn’t get any camper.
Zing!
Wait, this is a pilot? So it’s coming back a series? Who in the hell are they going to get that can exude as much pure German charisma as The Hoff? And if this is going to be a series about "evil" cars to offset KITT, does that mean that KITT’s evil twin KARR will have a bigger role? I don’t know how I feel about it.
The whole allure of Knight Rider was the fact that it was so cheesy. It was a show that Dursted before it ever aired. But when they introduced KARR and Michael’s evil twin, it kinda extra-Dursted. Suddenly it’s camp value just didn’t seem to redeem it anymore.
Interesting thing about the origins of Knight Rider. In the original pilot episode that Michael is a cop who gets shot in the face (hence surgery to make him look like the Hoff and no one recognises him). However they also say he didn’t die because the bullet was stopped by a metal plate in his head, FROM ALREADY BEING SHOT IN THE HEAD BEFORE. No wonder he needed a talking car to help him solve crimes… wtf?
I actually thought the show going to become Transformers before too long. When they did the super boost thing and all those boosters rockets and wings came folding out of KITT I figured he’d become full blown walking battle armor the following season.
We look back on this as campy now, but did you guys really think it was when you were kids? This show was AWESOME! I also thought Dukes of Hazzard was the greatest show ever, and now I find it completely unwatchable.
Yes!!! Trans-ams are always going to be cool! Unless, of course, you aren’t a dipshit.
Hairy: There is a simple explanation. Kids are stupid. The end.
Color me interested ONLY if the new "supercar" is a 1975 yellow Pacer.
I smell a hit!!!
Nope, just sharted.
Ok, I’ll cop to it. I thought Knight Rider was the coolest thing in the world. I really didn’t like the KARR storyline though.
didnt they get followed by a fuckn trailer?
btw im back mothafuckas!
Welcome back!!!
Like other people said, Knight Rider and the other shows from the 80′s are sort of campy in retrospect. Anyone seen the "A-Team," lately? The plot is secondary to the stunts.
I always liked the all too real sound effects… Constantly squeeling the tires, even on a dirt road. Man I wasted a lot of time trying to do that one.
Maybe it will just be about the car. Every week it will get a new driver. Half the show will be about convincing the driver that the car is real, quarter of the show will be commercials and the last quarter will be about the car saving the day.
Not too much thinking involved with that.
sings Chitty Bang Bang Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Chitty Bang Bang Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Chitty Bang Bang Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Oh you Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang we love you… shit. That was from something else. "I smell children." Wonder if the Child Catcher was related to Mutiple Miggs?
The only reason this show wasn’t completely forgotten was because we love to make fun of it. Not because we actually liked it. It’s like Chuck Norris, we all love him, but who the fuck actually watches Texas Ranger and I know none of you are running out to rent his craptastic films. Leave Knight Rider where it should of been left the first time, on the drawing board!
Wow. A talking car. Can it take a shit, too? That’s cool.ÂÂ
Faster NightBoat.. we have to catch those Starfish Poachers!
You don’t have to yell, Michael. I’m all around you.
Ronn: So when Michael gets inside KITT, it’s like they have had sex?
If Nicholas Cage doesn’t get the role of Michael Knight I shall be severely disappointed.
I think the return of Knight Rider is part of an affirmative action program for alternative lifestyle automotive products. Haselhoff is proof that you can ride a gay all day long and still not become one. He just had to get used to Kitt’s anal seat restraint system.
Remember that DOUG LIMAN also directed BOURNE IDENTITY. And was very involved while producing BOURNE ULTIMATUM and BOURNE SUPREMACY. So…who knows, might be real good.
Shaky Cam Over the Top Good?
Only if you’re lucky, bearclaw.
This is the one remake where I hope and pray Hollywood plays the race card. How cool would Kitt be with the voice of Mister T or Fitty Cent? Will Smith can play Michael Knight and Kayne West can play the whiny assed megalomaniac villain. Box office gold!
Great! Just in time for a Don’t Hassle the Hoff reality series. Episode 2: Hoff is loaded on the kitchen floor slamming a 4×4 In-n-Out burger in between shots of tequila. Meanwhile, his daughter’s lecturing him on the dangers of mixing alcohol with bible-quoted burgers as Hoff sheds tears about NBC not inviting him back to its new lame Knightrider show, a-la Corey Haim whining to Corey Feldman about not being apart of Lost Boys 2: Straight to Video, in their faux-reality hit, The Coreys. Only, this won’t be scripted and will be even more predictable than the transformation of Britney Spears into a white trash whore destined to be in Playboy by 2011.
Just another sign that new A-Team and Magnum P.I. television shows once destined for movie theater treatments are just around the corner. Maybe even MacGuyer.