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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.
s/busy/old/g
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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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.
I won't join Slashcott. OTOH, If Beta goes live, I just won't be back until it's fixed. Sorry Dice.
Dave did such a great job in the SpongeBob movie that they called him back. Eventually.
Knowing network TV, they'll go in two directions:
- If a car company will step and pay MANY millions for a sponsorship deal, they can make KITT *anything*. I will weep the day KITT becomes a Nissan 350Z or something equally stupid.
- If no car companies step up, no doubt they will go after something like a Ferrari or Lambo, to cash in on the bling-laden hip hop culture thems darned rappin' kids are into these days.
I wish I were kidding, but it's entirely plausible...
...for Baywatch: the Movie. It will be the first movie shot entirely in slow motion.
This is the knew Knight Rider vehicle... http://www.myersmotors.com/
http://www.rense.com/general79/wdx1.htm
The should make it a Tesla Roadster.
Ack, didn't realise I waasn't logged in, but yeah, the Tesla Roadster rocks. I just wish I could afford one...
Someone save me from this sanity.
What car will they be using as KITT?
"My Mother the Car" Version 3.
They'll probably do something cheesey and make K.I.T.T. into some futuristic car like they did in Knight Rider 2000.
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*
All cars are evil. KITT itself was not evil, but its windshield wipers were.
Obama likes poor people so much, he wants to make more of them.
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.
no they weren't. It was the duck in the trunk.
Operation Guillotine is in effect.
"Hey, baby! You got some duck in that trunk!"
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They won't use anything Italian due to cost. They'll use something cheap and common enough to replace / repair every time they break one. I could see them use a Lada or Hyundai.
Or they could try to do it all with CGI on a TV budget. Won't that look cool.
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!
"Ah, every week there is a canal" "Theres no need to yell Michael, im all around you"
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.
-FL
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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I thought KARR was the evil car.
Do I require the c-sig package to have a signature?
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?)
Face it, if they did chose something like a Nissan 350Z, they would at least have a car that could live up to the stunts. The Trans Am was woefully bad at going round corners (like most cars made for the US market) and only really became an icon thanks to Knight Rider. I agree though that a talking car is a bit passe now. Hell, my GPS talks to me!
Yes, we are all tired of channels re-hashing old "classics" (and I use the term with all the power of inverted commas), but we _keep_ watching them and paying good money to see them at the cinema. When people actually vote with their feet and refrain from going to see them, then maybe, just maybe, someone will have an original idea and manage to get it onto the screens. Heroes is a good example, as is 24. 24 is getting old now though, which is a shame as the first couple of series were quite good.
Teamwork is essential. It gives the enemy someone else to shoot at
Hey, maybe they can have a reality show to see who gets the part of Knight Rider?
*crosses finger*
FAQs are evil.
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.
He was - controlled by an evil duck.
ref: Eddie Izzard's rant on the "Tyranny of Ducks"
Ergo:
"Michael, I really don't think you should go in there."
"Oh, don't worry, KITT, it's me! I got thirty five minutes to save the day and then we got the rest of the season for me to look cool at your expense!"
"QUACK!" "What was that, KITT? KITT??" "VROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!" "YEURGH!" SPLAT!
*Technical difficulties, please stand by.*
Operation Guillotine is in effect.
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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I was thinking about this recently and it is a tough one. I assume a US carmaker would jump on this, though I'd rather see KITT 2.0 as an Audi since the convertible Jag is too pricey (unless you buy used, since they fall apart fast). So what that leave us with today? Mustangs? (God please no!) The new Dodge Charger? (Ick) And Ick goes for just about anything GM these days, though I do kind of like the look of the Solstice (though it is only a two seater and I don't think that would work for plot reasons). Someone mentioned that the talking robo car was cool in the 80's and that wouldn't work with today's politics and fears (though I thought the Superman movie suffered from that big time). I think the bigger issue is that today's cars are just mostly... 4X4 automatic transmission super minivans. Super shield or not, I can't picture little KITT going head to head in the desert against Lincoln Navigators, let alone an H2 or something. So does KITT then have to be an SUV too? Maybe a Ford Fusion! That would kick so much ass!
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.
Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, religion destroys spirituality
...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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There may be cars which talk to me. But where are the cars that talk with me?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
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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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.
...will they cast the Pontiac Trans-Am again, or will it be something new? Fans want to know!Well GM has resurrected the Camaro. All they have to do is paint it black and add a gold flaming chicken.
Of course they could make him a Charger and give him two brothers from Dixie as a driver. Then he will be unstoppable.
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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)
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.
Now I'm imagining KITT pretending to be a GPS whenever someone else is in the car.
KITT: Turn left in 200 feet, Michael.
Other person in car: Did your GPS just call you by name?
If corporations are people, aren't stockholders guilty of slavery?
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.
If a job's not worth doing, it's not worth doing right.
It's gonna bomb like the Miami Vice movie.
IMDb. :P
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why does hollywood think all we want to see is recycled, remade, garbage?
If this car is used, a perfect Hoff replacement is that one guy on Family Matters with the glasses.
finally! now I am able to drive 76+ miles per hour!
Actor, not character name = not redundant.
... "Back in my day, sonny, you didn't need the hearing aides! But they reformulated the Bengay, cheap penny-pinching corporate bastards! Just the other day someone tried to sell me a shoelace that you couldn't use as an explosive cord! Honestly, how do you younguns live with this shit?"
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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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.