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Knight Rider To Ride Again
Penguinsh*t writes "Though the movie version of Knight Rider has remained 'up on chocks' for the better part of the last decade, Knight Rider, the TV show is revving into high gear. 'The premise of the show will essentially remain the same as the original, which centered on a mulleted man righting wrongs with the help of a particularly chatty and souped-up automobile. No word yet on who will play the hero this time around, but the Peacock is looking for some new blood.' Besides which, 'the Hoff' is busy."
I wondered how much trouble NBC was in, and now we know, this will be a really short lived remake I think.
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I was once told that the original show was popular enough that they wouldn't have cancelled it, except they simply couldn't buy enough trans ams for all the stunts.
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Wonder what beloved 80's TV show the movie/TV industry will rape next.
Sorry if I sound bitter, I just saw the trailer for the Alvin and the Chipmunks movie.
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WHO cares? It was a cheesy show, with a ham for a lead actor. This is not news,
it is predictable. Yawn.
I certainly hope this show bombs like no show has bombed before....Not sure what Zucker was thinking here, but I'm quite sure that Brandon Tartikoff must be rolling over in his grave....
No word yet on who will play the hero this time around, but the Peacock is looking for some new blood.
Why do I have a gut feeling that this movie will star Ben Stiller with an afro wig, and will be directed by Uwe Boll?
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...will they cast the Pontiac Trans-Am again, or will it be something new? Fans want to know!
It'll be something new. I vaguely remember Knight Rider 2000. Kit wound up in something red.
Unless, of course, they pretend that Kit is being built for the first time. It will be something new in that case too.
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How old is this guy? Eight? "Potentially 'evil' cars do battle against K.I.T.T."? With "cool special effects"? And you couldn't think of it before seeing Transformers THE MOVIE?
At least before I thought TV executives were chuckling while pumping their repetitive, cliched horseshit to the unwashed masses. Now I know the execs are retarded, too.
Dave did such a great job in the SpongeBob movie that they called him back. Eventually.
Without GM making a trans-am/firebird what will the Knight Industries Two Thousand (KITT) be? Going to have to go with a 4th gen model like the cheesy TV show they had a few years ago and different vehicles?
...for Baywatch: the Movie. It will be the first movie shot entirely in slow motion.
very strong. must resist.
What car will they be using as KITT?
"My Mother the Car" Version 3.
Hollywood. Please stop with the remakes. Let's see something original.
How many remakes have they done over the past ten years or so?
Charlie's Angels
Transformers
Bionic Woman
Alvin and the Chipmunks
Bewitched
Starsky & Hutch
Lost in Space
The Dukes of Hazzard
Fat Albert
Miami Vice.....
the list goes on and on.
Can't wait for the Thundercats and Get Smart movies.
*rollseyes*
Might as well be if you take a look at the typical dialogue from the original knight rider.
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I loved the show years ago, but these days people are used to their cars talking to them, so the novelty is kind of eroded. With good stories it could work, but I hope they don't rely on effects to drive interest.
I thought they already had a remake. I guess they just needed to rehash this one more time. Oh well, let's hope it's not another Flash Gordon.
Anyone else tired of these retreads?
Dub-du-du-duuuuh,
dub-du-du-duuuuh,
dub-du-du-du-du-duuuuuuuuuuuuh!
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I don't think robo-cars are really all that interesting now. With stuff like Battlestar Galactica, and Heroes and Dr. Who on the air, and with the whole Star Trek franchise come and gone since Knight Rider, people have a somewhat higher expectation of quality from their sci-fi adventure. Knight Rider is a relic from the hair spray decade, when culture rarely elevated above space invaders and bimbos. I mean, we were listening to "Thriller" and "Devo". --Which yes, I realize aren't much more advanced than the latest. . , what the heck are kids listening to now? But still. There was a highly plasticized happy-happy fakeness to everything. A bullet-proof talking car which could jump over trucks? That could work in such an environment. But now? No chance.
I'm not claiming that people today are any smarter than they were in the 80's. --We've got legions of cynical, drooling game-box junkies who are plenty dull, but that kind of stupid is incompatible with the stupid of the 80's. Our culture is too firmly tuned to violence to give a hoot about such a childish formula as a talking car. --Remember, fun in the 80's involved little multi-coloured cube puzzles and video games where you shot alien space ships, jumped over barrels and ate dots. Today we gun down simulated fellow humans for fun and pretend it hasn't changed us. We've become a race of fat, dull-witted warriors who barely blink when civilians are murdered by our troops. Our reaction to the present events going on in the world would have been very, very different in the 80's.
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He is busy. I saw him do some his best work ever. It was a recent project produced and directed by his daughter. He was *playing* the role of a drunk...
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I'm excited. This is so cool. I was a huge fan of KITT back in the ole' days. I wonder how the writers are going to explain the tech behind KITT. Maybe they'll go for nano tech. and talk about AI
I hope that they get the technobabbling right
NBC already has some good shows - the best IMHO, is Heroes. However, Knight Rider is not like Heroes and it's really scifi (without space and aliens), kinda like a down to Earth scifi
Maybe, the ole' show should be left alone. Let the new car be derived from KITT. Let's say that the military develops its own version of KITT. It would be nice to have an episode with the real KITT and Michael Knight starring.
BTW, don't you think the Spider is better suited for KITT, rather than the pontiac?
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you see it all the time in comic books - a good writer can make a very interesting story arc with a mundane character, whereas a hack can write a fantastically horrible story on a character with a lot of depth and backstory.
Get Smart. If it were any smarter, they wouldn't make it at all. Don Adams must be rolling in his grave so fast that he couldn't answer his shoe phone. (When is someone going to make a cell phone in a shoe, for the yuppie fan-with-everything?)
Hey, maybe they can have a reality show to see who gets the part of Knight Rider?
*crosses finger*
FAQs are evil.
eating cheese burgers and drinking copious amounts of piss....
What OS will KITT run?
/dev/KITT: I'm sorry Micheal, I just don't think you realize the power of EMACS no matter how much you tell me VI is better. I think you'll have to deal with the bad guys on your own.
Windows
KITT: Micheal look out! The bad guys have guns! I'm opening the door for you to get in and be safe.
(C)ancel or (A)llow?
MAC OS
iKITT: Micheal look out! The bad guys have guns! I'm opening the door for you to get in and be safe.
*iKITT shuts down because Micheal fixed iKITT to go with a different cell phone provider.*
LINUX
*Drives off in a huff*
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than the original star trek. I'm no trekkie geek (in fact, I don't remember watching more than an episode or 2 of any other spin-offs since then) but as far writing and the stories, narrative, etcetera - I felt that the original star trek and TNG feel completely different and share perhaps only the same type of set and universe. That's about it. TNG was vastly superior IMO. The original star trek always struck me as a bad James Bond series set in the future.
I don't like remakes often, it indicates a lack of creativity, but then I liked the new 3:10 to Yuma (original from the 50s). Mostly remakes suck (House of Wax, most other horror movies - ugh). I think the cause is that the original is looked at with Rose colored glasses when in reality the story concept was purely a product of the times and ages badly. For example, the same way people conceptualized the future 50-60 years back was taken seriously back then but is just a bad joke to us today.
.. to match your sense of humor?
Now that we've got GPS and cars talk to you, KITT isn't that special. That said, there is a special relationship between Americans and their cars with the car as the symbol of freedom and masculinity that people subconsciously respond to. But I honestly don't think it could do like Dr. Who, which had a 26-year history with the British public and a much more rabid fanbase.
Battlestar Galactica...OK, maybe.
I hear that there's a growing consensus that the only remaining 1970s television show that the public is begging to see remade is "Good Times", so a darker revisioning of the old 1990s show "Friends" is in production.
In the revisioning, "Phoebe" has been renamed "Geraldine" and is a serial killer who is hired by the Pentagon to do performance evaluations. "Joey" has been renamed "Angelo" and is in contact with a seductive alien who is trying to decide whether New York is a strange experiment and will destroy it if her suspicion is correct.
"Rachel" is a Corporate Downsizing Consultant addicted to pain meds, "Monica" is a man with 6 months to live, "Chandler" is a Jack Russell terrier with only three legs, and Ross voted Republican in the last election.
In this revisioning, none of the characters are friends.
Rich And Stupid is not so bad as Working For Rich And Stupid.
And because of global warming, they should consider using a small economical car rather than a great big racy gas-guzzler - say something like a Volkswagen Beetle.
And because the VW Beetle isn't known for its speed, they should paint it white and put a big racing stripe down the whole length of the car and a number, say a "53", to make it look like it's just been in a race!
And then... oh wait.
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Trying to capture the 2000s youth market with a staple of 70s
television.
Why can't they bring back or remake good shows like B.J. And the
bear ?
Now, there's a concept I can't get enough of; a man and his
monkey.
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Last I heard, Knight Rider had set up his own media empire.
Impossible supersonic helicopters for the win! http://youtube.com/watch?v=u902HyNQTD4
...nothing to see here.
... KITT was still in rehab following a bad acid trip.
8==8 Bones 8==8
Whether it will be good or bad it is still great news :) Kitt will be back!
On the other hand, McGiver? Total mullet city.
I had a two week engineering job at a paper mill in Naciemento, Chile a couple of years ago. On the way to the mill we past by a small town that had a building with a life sized painting of the Thundercats symbol on it. I thought that it was really strange at the time (and still do.)
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The show is dated. It was great at the time. I loved it. 25 years ago they only made shows about cars (Dukes of Hazzard and A-Team) and about computers with lifelike AI, normally brought to life by a power surge or spilling coke in a computer (Automan and Electric Dreams) or sometimes unlikely crime-stopping heros (miami vice or Greatest American Hero or again A-TEAM). Knight Rider was the ultimate 80's show because it took all 3 of these things and turned them into one show. But, 25 years later a show like any of these things just doesn't work so well. We are more jaded and this would just seem silly. I'd still love a reunion show, but I don't think the premise works any more.
We've moved past an age where computers were mysterious, dangerous, and somehow held the key to the salvation or the damnation of the human race. Now we accept them as what they are, another tool that people use or misuse. They are not mysterious and no one imagines that they are going to start talking to you. They'd have to do some serious revamping to make me suspend belief enough to get into this show or to not hate it for making my precious childhood memories seem ridiculous.
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Remakes have been going on for quite a lot longer than 10 years. There are only a few good stories to tell; they just have different characters and circumstances. More than half of the stuff on TV can be traced to William Shakespere in some way. Hollywood producers are in business to make money. They occasionally produce something worthwhile despite their motives. I'm 45 and I stopped watching television at 16. There are plenty of other things to do with your time and nearly all of them are more rewarding.
idiotic talking car, at least one blond per show which could hardly act, and of course Hasselhoff... I wonder how they will keep up with this.
It is hardly a question that it will feature a different car, with a different voice, with a different behavior etc.
The first episode will explain that.
But it will be cancelled.
Because the reason would be that...
...after one of those rare accidents where restoration from some hard to find backup is needed...
...it is found to be impossible because of the DRM installed during the last one.
My guess is since in 2009 the new Camaro is supposed to be released along with a Pontiac version of the car based on the same zeta platform (Either a new Trans-Am or GTO) that is what NBC would be going with if you asked me. And we all know after Transformers that GM isn't opposed to whoring their new cars.
Yeah, it was a better newspaper chain before it got sold.
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The show was a success for two reasons:
a) KITT
b) The Hoff
If they manage to find both a car and a dude that would be able to have the same impact on popular culture as
those 2 did in the 80's, they will have a success. Otherwise, it will be lame.
I hate to admit it, but Hasselhoff was brilliant in that show and it would be difficult to find someone up to par (by today's, not 80's standards of course)
"Our reaction to the present events going on in the world would have been very, very different in the 80's."
You're right...especially since Americans were lynching Blacks less than twenty years earlier. They were 'oh, so righteous' in the era of greed and Regan.
I watched the show in Turkey when I was a kid. It was fully translated and characters speaking in Turkish. That was a hit in Turkey in those years. Later, I watched the same show in US and it turned out that it was not that good at all. Of course, you may say you were a kid then. But, the Turkish voices were more suitable. Especially, KITT's voice was more adult and authoritative. The producers should look at the foreign markets and find the voices that made the more successful than the original english one.
Wheel chocks, on the other hand, are wedge shaped items inserted at the front and/or back of a vehicle tire to prevent the wheel from turning and stop the vehicle from rolling. As the chocks simply prevent tire rotation, there is no 'up' associated with them. A vehicle with chocks applied is simply said to be "chocked".
This error is probably excusable under the "diminished capacity" defense. It is not fair to expect anyone who takes an interest in the Knight Rider franchise to have the sort of basic competence necessary to be familiar common with figures of speech.
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It's gonna bomb like the Miami Vice movie.
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why does hollywood think all we want to see is recycled, remade, garbage?
I don't look forward to this at all. However, since there is a lack of creativity and a desperation to recapture good old T.V. memories, ie. Transformers, Miami Vice, Dukes of Hazard, etc; I kinda knew it would happen. You can be guanranteed it'll be out on DVD in less than 6 months after it tanks at the box office. Artistic creativity in films is at an all time low. I hope something new will come along and change they way we seek entertainment soon?
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Well except for the fact that most of the killing of Iraqis is Iraqis killing other Iraqis (ethnic clensing). Us being the "aggressors" wouldn't have changed that.
I nominate Nathan Fillion
Actor, not character name = not redundant.
Aren't we supposed to be geeks here? Sure, it was a cheesy show, but I ask you.. If you're in your late 20s or early 30s now, looking back on the following films/tv shows - which ones are not cheesy?
- Knight Rider
- The A-Team
- The Last Starfighter
- Wargames
- D.A.R.Y.L
- MacGyver
- Mork & Mindy
- Short Circuit
- Wonder Woman
I mean, come'on. There was a time when geeky was embarrasing. Lets not lose focus here.
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Help poke pirates in the eyepatch, arr.
We could have "Whoopy" one week, "The Donald" the next, "Britney" the following week (with some crazy, erratic driving) and so on...
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The same people that read Playboy for the articles? [sarcastic]
If you'd ever bothered to read Playboy, instead of giggling like a schoolboy at pictures of naked women (gasp!), then you would realize that it actually IS filled with great articles and other content.
Long interviews with diverse people (sports, entertainment, business)
Short fiction by well-known authors
Good articles
Reviews of movies, books, video games, technology
Cooking, wine, drinks, entertaining
And beautiful women. It's not shameful - grow up.
I'm waiting for Knight Boat, the crime solving boat!
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IT was not a remake but a continuation of the original series, where Haseloff plays a key (but not active field role) for the Foundation. It's not too hard to do that I think, I mean the guy got older, maybe he got appointed as the face man. The only problem is can there be a Knight rider with out Edward Mulhare has Devon though? That' would be a tough sell :/
Dunno. Post-transformers, even Dark Angel and the like, isn't a guy in a talking car a little lame in general and a little tame in compelling available story lines?
Perhaps interesting betting fodder on whether it survives from two shows to perhaps two seasons.