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The Hoff Returns To KNIGHT RIDER!?
Merrick here...
When NBC's new KNIGHT RIDER project was announced, one of the first things everybody asked was "Will Hasselhoff have anything to do with it?". And, as alluded to in previous posts, his Michael Knight character does make an appearance in the project's script.
However, until now, we'd head nothing about whether The Hoff would actually sign on. He'd been trying to resurrect the franchise for years, and may not necessarily have been predisposed towards jumping onto someone else's boat.
Now comes word that The Hoff is, indeed, in negotiations to appear in the new project...a sequel concept that will center on Michael Knight's son.
Deanna Russo has also joined the cast. She plays Logan Armstrong on THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS and also appeared in REST STOP. I haven't seen her work so I can't comment, although she's pretty cute.
The KNIGHT RIDER project, and Russo's role, is described thusly:
a sequel to the 1980s series that centers on Mike Tracer (Bruening), Michael Knight's son who never knew his dad.
Burned by his love for childhood best friend and one-time girlfriend Sarah Kamen (Russo), Mike is wasting away in Las Vegas when Sarah reappears and is willing to pay off Mike's gambling debt in exchange for help.
Sarah is the brilliant estranged daughter of KITT inventor Charles Kamen, who works as an assistant professor in the engineering department at Stanford. When she receives word from talking-car KITT (Knight Industries Three Thousand) that her father is missing, she and KITT set out to find and recruit Mike.
...says THIS ARTICLE in Hollywood Reporter.
All of this matches perfectly with my previously posted script review of the TV movie/backdoor pilot.
Burned by his love for childhood best friend and one-time girlfriend Sarah Kamen (Russo), Mike is wasting away in Las Vegas when Sarah reappears and is willing to pay off Mike's gambling debt in exchange for help.
Sarah is the brilliant estranged daughter of KITT inventor Charles Kamen, who works as an assistant professor in the engineering department at Stanford. When she receives word from talking-car KITT (Knight Industries Three Thousand) that her father is missing, she and KITT set out to find and recruit Mike.
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yeah
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It's not Knight Rider without The Hoff.
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He's got cheese value, but as an actor... I think even Shia LaBeouf couldn't harm this franchise more than the Hoff already has at this point. Move away from the Altar of the Hoff, fellas. Nothing to see here.
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My pants are in pursuit mode!
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It's not Knight Rider if the Hoff isn't involved. He should play the Devin role for the series.
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and that girl is f'in terrible in it.
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... and to show up and show Junior how it's done every so often. KITT 2000 & 3000 working together could be quite cool, especially if we get some dual turbo boost stunts.
The question is, Michael Knight had a girl in every town that he saved, so which one did he bang in the back seat of KITT? -
The Hoff. McBain. You know you want it.
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Will super pursuit mode return?
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The REAL question is which one DIDN'T he bang in KITT's back seat?
By the way...doing it in or on a talking car? Totally creepy, especially whn the car is self aware. One of my big problems with the end of Transformers. -
hanging around the beach in a trailor like Martin Riggs.
Aw.. Hell. No. -
they want hoff back
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Didn't Robot Bill and Ted discuss the "self-aware robot around humans having sex" thing in BILL AND TED'S BOGUS JOURNEY?
Full-on robot chubby! -
....KITT's inventor's daughter and Michael Knight's son? Sounds a little 'Galactica 1980' to me.
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I bet the original KITT gets fucked up and then they rebuild him to be like a transformer etc. Thats my idea anyways. I<3Hoff
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The hipsters who missed the "Let's love Shatner because he's cheesy and it's cool" train all tried to make up for it by loving Hasselhoff way too much. It's time to pick a new loser to venerate for no particularly good reason.
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Although his video never gets old..
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I want a fucking cheeseburger *burp*. And make me another goddamn vodka tonic, you're driving home on autopilot tonight buddy. *hiccup* And use an EMT pulse on my daughter's video camera this time. Don't want to see my drunk ass on youtube or TMZ again.
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KITT: Michael, your blood alcohol level is staggering. Michael: You're not the boss of me you f'n talking car! You pig car! Now take me to get some waffles! :::sobs::: I'm sorry... so sorry...
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"Boy Meets World" can't be the last we see of The Voice!
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we live in this time. I was having a bad day until I heard this. Note to anyone in show biz, if you can get the Hoff to appear in your whatever, even for just a second. I'll blow money to see it and so would pretty much the entire country. Oh yeah big shout out to my boi Piers Morgan gonna be on the big Apprentice.
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Who's Charles Kamon? Isn't the guy's name supoosed to be Devon?
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no mustache
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NBC's run by retards. Anyway good to see ya back hoffman.
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Announcer: "We now return to "Knightboat: the Crime-Solving Boat"."
Michael: "Faster, Knightboat! We gotta catch those starfish poachers."
Knightboat: "You don't have to yell, Michael, I'm all around you."
Michael: "Oh, no! They're headed for land. We'll never catch them now."
Knightboat: "Incorrect: look! A canal."
Homer: "Go, Knightboat, go!"
Bart: "Oh, every week there's a canal."
Lisa: "Or an inlet."
Bart: "Or a fjord."
Homer: "Quiet! I will not hear another word against the boat." -
So I support the Hoff on this one. Don't we all?
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The killer 18 wheeler and the evil Hoff driving it. LOL!!!
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I remember when they filmed the knight rider tv movie here in san antonio at the riverwalk..cool to see it being filmed here but the movie was embarassingly unwatchable.
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that is all.
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Um...cool?
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... I agree with the TB'er who said that he should now fill the Devin role. Also, I would like to see a certain dusty trans am tucked away. I don't want Michael Knight and the KITT 2000 to steal the show, but having them in the peripheral will not only respect the source material, it will ensure the support of us thirtysomethings who grew up watching this in the eighties. And in doing so, we will make sure our kids watch! Remember the success of new Doctor Who.... there's a reason families sit down and watch it together.
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To respect the source material you'd have to have super cheesy split-screen cutaways and bad synthesized music. This show was, is and will always be lame. Of all the shows that do not need to be remade, this tops the list.
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Come on. Knight Rider fit in well in the days of formulaic 80's action drama when the only drama with any originality and creativity was Hill Street Blues, but I don't think it will transfer well to today. Adding Hoff who has become a parody of himself, only ups the cheese factor.
I can't wait for the reimagination of Baywatch next. Today's TV is sorely missing montages of women in bathing suits running in slow motion on the beach.
I guess I am burnt out of these reimaginations. The only one that works is Battlestar Galatica and that is because they basically said to hell with the original series and did their own thing and only kept the character names and the very basic overal premise of the show. You take out the names of the characters and a some of the designs of the ships, no one would even know that show was related to the original BSG. -
im getting plastered!
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reading the first script review and the new details now, it seems pretty obvious that the hoff will only appear to be wiped out as michael knight...
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Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. Knight Rider was about a pimped ride and saving the fucking world with said ride.
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On the subject of using the backseat... ;)
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The Hoff has recently had his "moment." There is no way he can top it (except maybe in a Nick Fury sequel).
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Like a protgee, perhaps.
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My sister has old tapes of the Hoff as Dr. Snapper Foster on Young & the Restless. Funny stuff.
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The Hoff's gonna need to re-fuel.
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...very lame? I mean I was a fan of the original series, and was happy to finally get anew take on this, but to make everyone the child of everyone?!?! For god's sake... Could they not have just let the guy be a freaking soldier (or something like that when the news got first posted) and the girl just a new employee of Knight Industries?... WTF!! I hate it when they do this "son of the first dude!" thing... It just makes it more cheesy than it should be.They could've brought back Micheal Knight without giving him a long lost son which for me just makes it look like they got cheap writers... And what the hell happened to the original KITT??? Never saw the end of the show...
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Nobody cares.
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She's gotta cameo with her own car!
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and in one swift moment alienate all of us generation x'ers who will be tuning in for the very reason of seeing Hasselhoff.
Much as I love the Hoffmeister I second pikagreg,.. the man is no Tom Selleck. -
where the WHITE SCREEN OF DOOM hasn't followed me. I hate you with a passion WHITE SCREEN OF DOOM...
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You know what you did, right? You just made absolutely CERTAIN they'd be here soon.
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...an Ignition Interlock breathalyzer? KITT can drive himself and all, but they can't tell the cops that if he's pulled over. S'posed to be secret, y'know.
This thing would be a riot if they have Michael Knight ride shotgun with his boy, but for the whole movie he's either heaving out the window or passed out drunk. In one scene, he can try to instruct the car to fire the turbo boost, but he slurs his speech so badly that the voice recognition system eventually just gives up, ending with him projectile vomiting all over the dashboard Team America-style. Another scene could involve the son videotaping his father in their hotel room, imploring him to kick the bottle as he rambles incoherently and tries futilely to eat a futuristic cheeseburger.
It should feature cameos by Gary Coleman, Michael J. Fox, Mr. T, Sgt. Slaughter, and the Landers sisters. Hulk Hogan could play the bad guy riding in a tricked-out Escalade driven by his equally-evil street-racing son.
Comedy gold, I tell ya!
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Then again...if KITT's doing the driving, who gives a fuck? He could install a goddam bar in the backseat...
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Nov 22, 2007 10:54:14 PM CST
The Knight 2000 is a talking Segway invented by Dean Kamen
by darth_inedible
It will revolutionize the way we think about 80s cheese TV in a very fundamental way.
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Although with "twists" being all the rage these days you just know that daddy will have gone evil/rogue and isn't really missing.
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Nov 23, 2007 3:17:40 PM CST
"Mike, we're not on autopilot and you're intoxicated. Stop with
by thegreatwhatzit
KITT plunges off cliff, turning into an inferno upon impact into an abyss. The car, Michael and his passengers--three orphans on Christmas respite and four topless Vegas dancers--are instantly incinerated.
A message from MADD. -
"Stop shouting Michael, I'm all around you."
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saw a recent picture of her on Google and suddenly all of my pre-teen fantasies went to hell. She looks worse than Michael Jackson. How could something so hot become so scary?
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thats all i want to see.
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fghfgh
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is awesome. Here's hoping that NBC doesn't really screw this up by not casting him- and I, too, want to see the return of KARR.
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so why are they resurrecting it? Jebus Chreest.
And David Hasselhoff is such a pathetic actor/human being. What gives? Anyways, I'm off to rub weenies.
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