Prepare to hear the worst remake news since we found out that the Thundercats were being remade into teenage rockstars dressed as Cats fighting crime.
Knight Rider was an iconic staple of 80s night time TV. Clearly the springboard that launched David Hasselhoff into worldwide fame often credited to Baywatch.
Now we get an update on the Knight Rider movie, in which the Hoff tried to cast himself and Orlando Bloom through a leaked rumour campaign. Well this won’t be a Knight Rider: The Next Generation, but rather a heavily influenced Transformers vs Knight Rider show.
MovieWeb reports:
The telefilm is scheduled to air later this season. If the TV movie is a hit, a series will follow shortly afterward. It could be on the air as early as next fall. Dave Andron is currently writing the screenplay, which will see the car shifting into different shapes and fighting off other evil shape-shifting cars.
So will Autobots wage their Battle to destroy the evil forces of the Decepticons?
Or is this just implying that (presumably) KITT will be a car that can transform into other vehicles and such instead of giant robots.
I guess if they make the car TOO high tech it would seem a waste to pit him against villains that are mere mortals committing crimes. They have to raise the bar of the badguys too and give them transforming supercars too.
I think I liked this idea better when it was the animated tv show MASK
This post was Authored by Rodney Brazeau, Senior Editor for the TVShow Blog and Our Resident Authority on all things Heroes and Smallville
Comments
This show is going to suck… How much of a rip-off, coat-tail riding wanna be can this “movie” want to be? Seriously… If Transformers wasn’t the success it was, would this TV movie even be considering the transforming element?
What I don’t understand is why use the Knight Rider name? The show could probably be pretty cool (excuse me while I choke up my spleen)but what do they get by using the name of a show that their target demographic either doesn’t know or considers a ridiculous, has been, 80s show. There just doesn’t seem to be any connection to the original premise that would justify tying the name Knight Rider to it. I was a child of the 80s and have fond memories of Knight Rider, but I wince when I see a rerun of it now. I wouldn’t mind a reinvented (reimagined) version, but this sounds like it’s really taking it to the extreme.
This will not turn into a tv series. Wasn’t there a tv show within the last ten years that tried to basically be the knight rider show. I think it was called Viper. I think it only lasted half a season.