Knight Rider TV Series Returns...Because of Transformers

Shape shifting? As long as it's not Viper, I'm all for it!

Good grief!

Sweet! I hope the Hoff has a part in this.

Didn't UPN already try this, with dismal results?

Flint wrote:Sweet! I hope the Hoff has a part in this.

Me too, but I don't want NBC to Hassle the Hoff too much.

NO MORE REMAKES!!!

Can't this industry produce something original?!?

What next: a re-hash of "The A-Team" with Tyrese Gibson as B.A. Baracus and Terry O'Quinn as Hannibal?

Shape shift? When did KITT ever shape shift? Unless you mean the drop top or the mind numbingly daft super pursuit mode where bits of the car stuck out for no real reason.

Knightrider 2000 was pretty bad ( woman gets one of KITT's chips installed in her noggin, please ) and Team Knightrider reminds me of the American dub of Galaxy Force with all the cars having a stupid accent.

Did you ever see Knight Rider 2010? That didn't even have a car until the last half hour - and it didn't even talk!

TheKnightShift makes a good point, no more remakes!

Well, KITT had that "Super Pursuit" mode in the last season. Still, I hope it's a SEQUAL, not a REMAKE. Too many remakes slapping the face of their old series. I want to see a series where they make a new car, and no I don't mean Knight Rider 2000!

How many times have they tried this and failed?

There was that Knight Rider team show with the mortorcyle. The Knight Rider future show with the rusted out homemade car with KITT being the guys girlfriend stuck in a crystal or something like that. I remember they had a kick ass monster truck in that one two.

I don't know if I'm missing any, but basicly Knight Rider was cool in it's own right. I realy hope if they do this that they learn from the mistakes in these previous attempts, or else, this will be an easy strick 3 for this franchise.

This could be cool... I think that re-makes like this are always a good idea because for all intents and purposes, they WORK. Knight Rider was extremely popular in its day, and there's no reason to think that an updated version won't sell, so long as it's handled right.

As for the Shape-Shifting, well all I know is that towards the end of the original Knight Rider series, K.I.T.T. woul doccasionally transform in to "Super Pursuit Mode(all of the armor panels extending outward, looked kinda dumb)", and that's something I'd rather not see repeated. But who knows. This could be interesting. Now give me some Airwolf and then we'll be cookin' with Gas!

I wonder if they'll try to bring back Peter Cullen to do the voice of K.A.R.R., K.I.T.T.'s evil nemesis?

Cullen could be K.I.T.T.!

Aww, Knight Rider, doesn't that bring back memories.
I apropriately fawned over David Hasselhoff, as very girl around here, although I always liked KITT better. I have even have a remote controlled KITT, but I dont know whether he still works, he'll go back onto the drawer tomorrow after the new telephone cable is in place.

I'm undecided as far as a new series goes, depends upon how it is done. Many of the recent SciFi series just can't hold my interest, somehow they have no heart.

cool bring back hasselhoff!

Just as long as they don't bring back that no talent ass clown Hasselhoff it will be good.

So...I know a lot of you are up in arms about this. But I have fond memories of watching Knight Rider as a kid...dare I say almost as much as Transformers? Forget that it was a cheasy show that starred Hasselhoff...to me, there was nothing more exciting than seeing a sleek Trans Am jump over barriers, tear through walls, get shot at, and not suffer a scratch! And then it could also drive itself, which was an added bonus...ah, memories....

I am a little worried, though. As stated, they've had several failures at trying to launch another series, and technically they were trying to take the movie approach (the Weinstein Company had acquired the movie rights). In other words, there's been a lot of talk over the past four years, but no results.

as long as the hoff doesnt sing

I liked the viper concept. Nbc seems to be hitting the mark n a few of its shows now with Heroes, and I havent seen Bionic woman but its got some outside hype. With the right team in place anything is possible.

It's becoming more and more obvious that either network execs smoke way too much weed-OR NOT ENOUGH!

A shape shifting KITT.... um, no.

Robinson wrote:I liked the viper concept. Nbc seems to be hitting the mark n a few of its shows now with Heroes, and I havent seen Bionic woman but its got some outside hype. With the right team in place anything is possible.

Heroes = original idea. Good job NBC, now go and think of some more.

TheKnightShift wrote:

NO MORE REMAKES!!!

Can't this industry produce something original?!?

What next: a re-hash of "The A-Team" with Tyrese Gibson as B.A. Baracus and Terry O'Quinn as Hannibal?

An A-Team movie is already in the planning phase (it is scheduled for 2009), the actors are 75% chosen, I heard.

Chaoslock wrote:

TheKnightShift wrote:

NO MORE REMAKES!!!

Can't this industry produce something original?!?

What next: a re-hash of "The A-Team" with Tyrese Gibson as B.A. Baracus and Terry O'Quinn as Hannibal?

An A-Team movie is already in the planning phase (it is scheduled for 2009), the actors are 75% chosen, I heard.

Do you mean they've selected 75% of the cast or the cast is only 75% sure it wants to do it? Because, if it's the latter, I'd probably listen to that other 25%.

aw for the love of Primus. This is exactly why I've pretty much given up watching movies or tv anymore. It's all just rehashed crap.

With the exception of the TF movie, which had at least 20-25 amazing minutes in it.

I see,.........more books in my future!!

So... KITT's gonna talk, drive himself AND transform? Why not stop beeding around the bush and make him a Headmaster already?

DEAR GOD NO!!! "The Hoff" was bad enough the first time around. Mabey this time we'll get Drunk Knight Rider!

what0080 wrote:So... KITT's gonna talk, drive himself AND transform? Why not stop beeding around the bush and make him a Headmaster already?

now that i'd pay to see!

Robinson wrote:I liked the viper concept. Nbc seems to be hitting the mark n a few of its shows now with Heroes,

cant argue with heroes

There's a thread called KITT over in the kitbash with a whole bunch of useless KR trivia if anyone is interested.

As for this, I will have to wait and see before I form a proper opinion. The New BSG has been the best series in recent times (I dont know if it's these guys, but it's proof not all remakes are crap). But this shapeshifting comment has me worried. They had better not have KITT doing really stupid looking stunts with CG. My view is: If you can't do it with a real car, or models, then you shouldn't be able to do it on screen. Unless it's something like dropping it off a 100ft ledge. But the original KITT jumped off a car park roof and into a 4th floor apartment in one episode, so maybe dropping it off would be okay.

And KITT had still better have his personality intact. Try to get Bill Daniels to play the voice, if not him, someone with the same kind of voice. KITT deserves at least that.

As for the car, I don't mind as long as it's black and doesnt look stupid. I'm looking at you here KR2000. And it has to have the woosh bar. In fact, get Glen A. Larson to help with the show. He was involved with the new BSG, so he's still active.

Anyone who's interested, there's a new channel (Virgin 1) starting on Freeview on Monday that will be showing the original KnightRider. WOOT!

As for that A Team movie, that was in the paper back in 2004. And nothing has come to pass on it.

wow didnt see that comin?

WOW to everyone bitching about remakes that "slap" the originals in the face.

Remakes aren't intended to be the exact same thing as their predecessor.

They are meant to be different.

And I think some of these remakes are pretty original honestly.

Taking a concept and seeing what you can do differently and better then someone else is always a challenge.

Get over yourselves really, Knight Rider was pure cheesyness.

A remake could take that awesome concept and give it a real sense of coolness

Liege Evilmus wrote:How many times have they tried this and failed?

There was that Knight Rider team show with the mortorcyle. The Knight Rider future show with the rusted out homemade car with KITT being the guys girlfriend stuck in a crystal or something like that. I remember they had a kick ass monster truck in that one two.

I don't know if I'm missing any, but basicly Knight Rider was cool in it's own right. I realy hope if they do this that they learn from the mistakes in these previous attempts, or else, this will be an easy strick 3 for this franchise.

I don't know about "failed", but they did 2 movies - Knight Rider 2000 and Knight Rider 2010 - the one you mentioned. Then Team Knight Rider with 3 cars and 2 motorcycles. The 2010 title had the least to do with the original series. The 2000 series was set in a near future California which has now come and gone and didn't happen. TKR was okay, they made each car less powerful because they didn't want them all to be unstopable.

I just hate seeing remakes. How about a GOOD sequal, where it says "yes, there was a guy named Michael Knight in the 1980s, and this is the same Foundation, and we have a new agent, here is his new car."

If they are going to do transforming cars, I'd rather see MASK--live action.

I think it could survive quite well as a SCI FI show, with the right writers and actors.

What could KITT possibly transform into? Other cars?

tigertracks 24 wrote:If they are going to do transforming cars, I'd rather see MASK--live action.

I think it could survive quite well as a SCI FI show, with the right writers and actors.

now you've really got my interest!

is peter the guy how play optmiusprime did he play nightrider as yell?

stellforest wrote:is peter the guy how play optmiusprime did he play nightrider as yell?

yes, peter cullen, who voice optimus in the original toon and the new movie, voicd K.A.R.R. in the origianl Knightrider series

stellforest wrote:is peter the guy how play optmiusprime did he play nightrider as yell?

Ummm....errrr....huh?

Haha, yeah I thought Viper when they said that. I dunno... shape shifting isn't what this show was about.

Scaleface wrote:

Liege Evilmus wrote:How many times have they tried this and failed?

There was that Knight Rider team show with the mortorcyle. The Knight Rider future show with the rusted out homemade car with KITT being the guys girlfriend stuck in a crystal or something like that. I remember they had a kick ass monster truck in that one two.

I don't know if I'm missing any, but basicly Knight Rider was cool in it's own right. I realy hope if they do this that they learn from the mistakes in these previous attempts, or else, this will be an easy strick 3 for this franchise.

I don't know about "failed", but they did 2 movies - Knight Rider 2000 and Knight Rider 2010 - the one you mentioned. Then Team Knight Rider with 3 cars and 2 motorcycles. The 2010 title had the least to do with the original series. The 2000 series was set in a near future California which has now come and gone and didn't happen. TKR was okay, they made each car less powerful because they didn't want them all to be unstopable.

I just hate seeing remakes. How about a GOOD sequal, where it says "yes, there was a guy named Michael Knight in the 1980s, and this is the same Foundation, and we have a new agent, here is his new car."

The team knight rider show was set in the same universe as the original show, they mention Devon Miles and the foundation as being its predecessor and Micheal Knight is vaguely mentioned.

Special f/x in tv shows is all good to me. BSG, Heroes, Lost... these are all shows that hold my attention, though not due to the f/x, but the writing.

However... I'd like to see more "original" ideas. If they want to do a show about a shape shifting car, does it "have" to be called Knight Rider? Is that the only way to get an idea off of paper and into reality by piggypacking it onto an older, established idea?

*sigh*

I'm all for the shapeshifting. Actually, if it's influenced by Transformers, and it has 'shapeshifting', talking cars...does anyone else see where I'm going with this? Who am I kidding? Though I'd kill for a live action Transformers show.

Meh, they've been talking about reviving Knight Rider for ages. It's like Indiana Jones 4: I'll believe it's happening when the cameras actually start rolling. Even though the latter has actually come to pass now, that doesn't change my attitude toward Development Hell.

Besides, even if they do actually get it done, Knight Rider was cheesy enough in its original version that remaking it could fall either way, really. The series had some great elements - the two-part pilot/origin "Knight Of The Phoenix", an absolute necessity to adapt for a new version, IMO - and a lot of excruciatingly silly ones - like the fact that both Michael AND KITT have EVIL TWINS. Please.

I can say, however, that I'm not keen on the idea of a shape-shifting KITT, since VIPER already took care of that, kind of. Were it my call, a new Knight Rider would have reimagined the original story into something a lot darker and more mysterious - more in line with the narration in the original show's opening credits: "Knight Rider, a shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist. Michael Knight, a young loner on a crusade to champion the cause of the innocent, the helpless, the powerless, in a world of criminals who operate above the law."

Shape shifting? Wasn't that show called Viper?

Hmm, might be interesting. I was 1 when Knight Rider ended, so it holds no nastalgic appeal to me. Caught a couple episodes on TVLAND or something before, seemed kinda interesting.

Viper does hold nastalgic appeal to me, but I barely remember the show. All I know is that I used to watch it. I do remember Viper fighting the prototype Viper one episode though. I wiki'd it, and I had no idea it had four seasons!

I say they make a series based on the idea in the Simpsons. Knight Boat, The Crime Solving Boat.

Michael: Oh, no! They're headed for land! We'll never catch them now!
Knight Boat: Incorrect. Look, a canal.

I wonder if it was really Transformers that inspired a new KR series or the remake of Herbie...
At any rate i guess it would be cool a cross-over between KR and TF. Example:

They get all this cool technology from Megatron while he's an ice cube, then from that Knight's Industries gets a government contract to build a computerized car (KARR) built from TF technology. Incidentally the decepticons get hold of KARR and turn it evil so Kight Industried got to build a new one (KITT). At that point the autobots show up and grab KITT too and then Devon Miles says "Ahh screw it! Bonnie, it that job with the FBI still available?" "Yeah, you mean the one about UFO investigations?" "Yeah... that. Call them up now, and tell Wilton i'm outta here.".

Nbc are bringing back the old Knight Rider show to television. I guess it's going to be shown on Nbc. It's no remake. It's the original one from 1982.







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...Knight Rider, back on the air? O_o...well that came out of left field...where it should've stayed.

I don't think a rebirth is a great idea, by any means.

SpacerAM2 wrote:Nbc are bringing back the old Knight Rider show to television. I guess it's going to be shown on Nbc. It's no remake. It's the original one from 1982.

It will indeed be a remake. Not just re-runs