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KNIGHT RIDER Showrunner Wants William Daniels and David Hasselhoff To Return As KITT And Michael!!
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“Knight Rider” showrunner Gary Scott Thompson says he wants to go old school on his new show.
From SciFi Wire:
Thompson (Las Vegas) added that he has a dream scenario: Teaming Hasselhoff's Michael Knight with Justin Bruening's Mike Tracer, with both K.I.T.T.s: The original Pontiac Trans Am, originally voiced by William Daniels, and the Ford Mustang GT500KR, voiced by Val Kilmer. "I don't know if it will happen," Thompson said. "It's all about timing."
If the Trans Am returns, will NBC Universal lose any of those sweet Ford Motor Co. product-placement dollars?
The latest "Knight Rider" series premieres Sept. 24 on NBC.
Find all of SciFi Wire’s story on the matter here.
September 30!!
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Bring back some of the old baddies too. Goliath was unrealistic but watchable.
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Aug 21, 2008 12:55:28 PM CDT
~~~is that Voltron in your pants or are you the Hoff?~~~
by the marquis de side 3
serious 80s geekdom going on here... just cancel the new stuff and do new episodes with the Hoff in his mid-life crisis, dusting off the old Kitt to go cruisin for college girl virgins with rich daddies being ransomed by the mob with talking trucks. that's right NBC. nothing has to make ANY sense... =0p
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...is already on the brink of cancellation; and it doesn't even start airing for another month.
The movie was not good. Now this report comes out; it sounds like they know they're doomed and have no idea how to save themselves.
Bring back Daniels and Hasselhoff? This is the first time I've seen a reboot turn back on itself...
It's an un-reboot... an unboot?... or maybe a de-reboot?... -
Fuck them in their virgin aasses
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Can Hasselhoff stay sober long enough to shoot the episode?
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The Hoff is passe in today's media market. The 18-24 demo sees him as a joke, a la Shatner. His brief cameo in the pilot will probably be his biggest involvement with the new series.
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William Shatner and his Emmys for stellar work in Boston Legal says the 18-24 demo can go fuck itself.
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...Shatner is very cool.
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Aren't you the douche that posted the ending of Watchmen without a spoiler warning, you douche?
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Aren't you the douche that posted the ending of Watchmen without a spoiler warning, you douche?
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Knight Rider has never been aimed at the "Emmy" crowd. And the lack of a desirable demo is why Boston Legal has been slowly dying with lackluster ratings. It's the best show no one watches.
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simply by lending cred to the original. Even though the show wasn't high-brow, it was still entertaining to the slightly campy action crowd. Hoff's presence would guarantee the show doesn't get shit for taking itself too seriously
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You're still crying in your milk about a spoiler for a 22 year old graphic novel? Here's another spoiler, Lincoln gets assassinated at Ford's Theater.
If you like surprises, what are you doing on this website, Einstein? -
Hats off my good Sir, for my first laugh out loud moment of the day.
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In my dream Thompson gets replaced by Kevin Falls, who in turn replaces Bruening with Kevin McKidd; and instead of driving a talking car he travels through time. It would be called "Journeyman Season 2"!
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I hate spoilers, but I agree with you in this case. Oh, and Spock isn't really dead when they launch his corpse into space.
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I bought a Ford four years ago and it was one of the worst mistakes I've ever made in my life. It's been nothing but trouble. That awful television movie was nothing but a two-hour infomercial for Ford Mustang.
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I bet Big Jim's dream (not having read it yet) involves something scatalogical, sexual, or violent. Let's see if i'm right.
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I wanted a punchline, Big Jim!
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this isnt a reboot, they arent starting over as if the original show never existed. its a continuation. as for the possible dueling car company loyalties, well if transformers was able to have both GMC and Ford, i'm sure they can too.
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Bill Clay... Billy Shatner is my cousin (yes, I am actually serious no joke), and over the last 30 plus years, I have seen him weather financial ruin and rebuild... Career death and rebirth in multiple decades of film and movies... He suffered the loss of a loved one and made it through and bested his demons... Plus, he gets his status as a KING of the Ironic Past-Prime Hero, read his Kirk continuation in book form... So, on behalf of the Shatners and kin... When you are gone no one will remeber you (ok, a handfull will), but SHATNER is loved by millions and known to millions more... I am glassy guy, but you got to mrs, so... Fuck You.
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Judging from the movie I predict the series will be pooh (that takes care of the scatalogical).
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no doubt about it.
i was a huge fan of the original, when i was 6. the concept is still stupid and seemingly now the execution is even worse than before. -
The Mustang they use is missing several key details just to ensure that is plausibly deniable as a Mustang.
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to save the day and Michael Knight's fate will remain unknown.
That's how I'd write it. -
It seems like a missed opportunity for continuity to not have it be the same KITT from the old show just in a new body. I mean it's a computer you could just switch the hard drives.
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I never said I have anything against your cousin. I said the young people today laugh at Shatner and consider him irrelevant. He's even made a new career of poking fun at himself! I enjoyed watching him on Trek when I was a kid, but I understand that today's audience sees him differently.
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Nor do I care to.
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People will watch because its Hasselhoff and it could make the show actually compelling and fun to watch.
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Are you fucking serious? Why would he do a shit project like this? Is he broke?
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Aug 21, 2008 3:00:35 PM CDT
Bouncy X, I believe the Transformer was a Saleen
by shut the fuck up donny
which was modified enough from an original Mustang to qualify it as its own vehicle. That's how Bay and Co. got around that one. The Knight Rider car, on the other hand, is a Shelby, which is licensed out by Ford.
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I think the backdoor pilot destroyed the chances of this thing being a hit. Even if they fix the many, many problems with the backdoor pilot, they may have turned off a prime segment of their target audience.
At least the Bionic Woman didn't have people to have its pilot stewing in people's heads for six to eight months before the next episode aired like Knight Rider has. And the Bionic Woman's pilot wasn't nearly as bad as Knight Rider's.
This show is DOA. Well, unless they cut a really good deal with Ford for product placement that Ford can't back out of. Then it could stick around for a while. The backdoor pilot was one long commercial for Ford. -
Just hire him already.. cameo, anything!
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until they go shit-for-brains and proceed to high-five themselves for 3 more posts like massive douches.
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Like Peter Cullen will always be Optimus and Anthony Daniels will alwsy be C3PO.
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Shatner as James T. Knight with Spader as the slightly faggy sounding yet still presumably hetero Enhanced Black Hummer
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Wow, a Talkback were another t'backer (sounds gay, written that way, right?) will agree with something someone said... That being me. Looking at the perception of those that never saw Trek in the original airing, theatre in Toronto and abroad, his music (which even I hated), the Twilight Zone classic, TJ Hooker, and the ST motion pictures - when they were anticipated, I can see how many younger patrons just knowing/viewing his ironic commercials, bombastic character on Boston Legal, and Trek convention goof-and-silly random stories with Nemoy, would see him in such a way, especially if they see what he was before, back in his hayday... so B-Clay to an extent I agree, but as family of his and with the knowledge that millions more still see him (albiet older now), still as James T. Kirk, kick ass captain... PS: An f-bomb is Ok, but the need to FOAD another, just an FY will suffice good sir. Back to Knight Rider... TV movie sucked, Williams will not come to the TV show out of loyalty (classy) and wait it out to do a movie, if one happens. IF not he has his Disney Channel Boy Meets World residuals, yay...
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... Daniels and the Hoff back on the show. This certainly bodes well for the future of the show, especially if they can also include turbo boosts every week.
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If stuntmen aren't totally the suspension and frames of one or two cars per episode they're not doing a real action show.
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That.
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Ford isn't shelling out the big bucks anymore and now they have to fall back on 'logical plot'. Ok, whatever it takes to get KITT back in true form.
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Ford Motors paid for the rights to be the new car. If the original Trans Am returns they won't lose money. The only way Ford would pull out is if they made the new car a Trans Am as well.
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There was a version of Nick Fury made starring David Hasselhoff? This is like finding out a decade later that William Shatner once played Captain America and you missed it.
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I like it.
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Will William Daniels return as the Knight 4000 from Knight Rider 2000?
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has been in decline because it continues to rotate out good cast members (Craig Bierko, Constance Zimmer, Julie Warner, and Keen Eddie, and Odo) in favor of the Assburger's Syndrome Guy.
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If done right this could be a real high point for the 1rst season and a ratings explosion. If they did it something like the new KITT is trapped and things look dire. Then all of a sudden the old KITT comes in and saves their ass. Yup! That would be cool! One of the things I found missing from the recent TV movie is they didn't use the old theme enough. That was such a big part of the program. I know it's dated but it was part of the feel of the show.
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who posted above is David Hasselhoff's publicist. Gotta be.
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Nope! Just a grownup who used to watch this show when he was younger. Not deep entertainment. Not great acting. But could be alot of fun in a kid type way at times. Convinced now?
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Hoff + tash = awesome
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I think they need to go Batman Beyond...with it...make the Hoff a crip who sits back at a "control center" staying one step ahead of the bad guys, while the younger kid gets to do all the heavy lifting...
I'm sorry...but seeing the Hoff running and sliding across the hood of K.I.T.T. at his age may make me wet myself with laughter.
You could always have William Daniel's as the voice of Michael's super computer he uses to track the new guys movement. The Fanboy in me would love to see him back behind the wheel...But Hoff in an "Oracle" type role...might be the smarter choice...Plus...it takes Pontiac out of the equation. -
desperation. Same stench is also emanating from the new 90210.
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William Daniels to come sing the entire score of '1776' to me while I float on a boat down the river. Just cause you want something doesn't mean it will happen.
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the young people today laugh at Shatner and consider him irrelevant. hmm maybe, until they grow up and realise he's fucking cool. shtaner album has been is one of the best albums ever. seriously. there are some god damm great tracks on there. I saw some young people today hanging outside an event for slayer. all gothed up and looking like rejects from a bettlejuice cosplay convention. youth is wasted on the young!
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so i'll do my damdest to hate on and ridicule this show! who's with me!
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to return to the role of Emma Peel. So? Ain't gonna happen.
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...the awesomest plot would be for the new KITT to contract some sort of computer virus (a'la having to download replacement software from the Foundation satellite after being hit by a mysterious EMP weapon), and being controlled by bad guys. Mike Tracer is put out of commission and needs help to save the day, but with the ultimate car being controlled by the forces of evil, what is a hero to do? Why, there's no car on Earth that can stop it! Except...for a disheveled 1980s Pontiac with an old-fashioned sentient computer with attitude to spare...and his weathered, down on his luck driver. Mike Tracer has to convince Michael Knight to take on the KITT of the future by once again taking the wheel of his favorite Trans Am. It's KITT vs. KITT, old school. I'd pay money to see it. WHO'S WITH ME?!!
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...awesomest movie reference ever. Subtle, but good. Unless that's your real name, in which case you need to watch Alan Rickman's scenes in Die Hard all over again. You'll gain new appreciation for the moniker.
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The original KITT has become self aware with the ability to exist in cyberspace without a physical shell; the new KITT will aspire to this over the few seasons the show will have. The "Prometheus" project and mysterious individual who hired the contract killers in the pilot will be none other than an advanced KARR and Garthe Knight. I can read this like a book...fortunately, Knight Rider is the shit!!!!
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Maybe he's to old... but Hoff made that show back in the 80's. I would love to see this happening. The 2008 TV movie was just poorly executed, the show will be better(i hope..)!
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And it was a hoot. He fought the children of Baron Strucker and Arnim Zola himself. Zola was portrayed as an ailing Nazi scientist, not the cool Kirby face-on-torso cyborg. Aired on Fox. Made for televison. Hoff's performance rose above the production values of the project.
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Why not? Instead of making one remake per show, why not just throw a bunch of those shitty 1980s shows into one pot, stir vigorously, and come up with ONE show featuring all the hokey characters from our youth?
They could call it:
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...when you throw F-bombs at strangers. Classy guy, indeed.
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Manimal can fight Lucan
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That was awesome!
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When I was a really young kid, hopped up on SPEED RACER and even before M.A.S.K. came out, I was convinced that all you had to do to make a car able to fly was open the doors (to act as the wings) and have a really fast engine. Then, a little bit later in life, whilst still a kid, M.A.S.K. confirmed for me that this was true -- you didn't need to have special wings like the Car Acrobatic Team, all you needed was to open your doors and drive really fast. Sadly, this was also how I lost both my first and second cars. After that I stopped believing in cartoons. Damn this consensus reality! DAMN IT TO HELL!!!
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The best part was when they were in that fucked up cave that spun around and it was all trippy and it fucked up Steve Austin. He was all discombobulated by the cheap special efx! Awesome!
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KARR shoots first!
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I liked the Nick Fury TV movie starring the Hoff, and was kinda pissed when they went with Ultimate Nick Fury for the Iron Man film. Hoff should have reprised the role.
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I mean, specifically, did he appear in human form, playing another character? If they want to use him on this new show, why not just cast him as, for example, an engineer whose voice was used for the original KITT?
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Is that spinny cave tunnel thingy still part of the Universal Studios tram tour?
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Well you know the car is driven from the seated position. You don't have to be young to be a hot driver. Just portray him as he is. He doesn't need to go sliding off the hood of the car anymore.
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...granted, most of the rest of the tv movie blew. Wasn't the cartoon voice of Nick Fury from the 90s Spidey cartoon also in the flick as well? I swear I'd prefer Hoff as Fury than Sam Jackson in yet another film playing Sam Jackson.
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Michelle Ryan was unfairly blamed for the show's failure. She was hot, she could act, she did action well, and she also did a convincing American accent. It still amazes me that NBC canceled the show because the ratings were decent. I guess the fact that they didn't have the rights to certain classic characters like Oscar Goldman added to the complications of having producers in a revolving door environment.
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Knight Rider was, is and always will be a weak children's show. Hasselhoff is a self important non-actor.
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