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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.
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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...or McGuyver making nuclear weapons out of a cane, dentures, Bengay, and hearing aides.
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i just realized this is a show, not a movie. Go ahead and unleash the hounds (with bees in their mouths, and when they bark, they shoot bees at you). Also, I've been drinking.
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Watched the A team recently, C.H.I.P.S. Dukes of Hazzard? They were all cheesy! No-one ever died, except on the cop shows, and any woman who the male lead fell in love with.
They were also, for the most part, great fun, and high quality entertainment as a result. This point seems to have escaped you.
This is the knew Knight Rider vehicle... http://www.myersmotors.com/
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What car will they be using as KITT?
Have you watched it lately? I loved Knight Rider as a kid, but I watched an episode the other day where Kitt singlehandedly stopped a coup d'etat in a Central American country. Beloved it should not be.
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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.
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Wonder what beloved 80's TV show the movie/TV industry will rape next.
Actually, they should just go the whole hog and combine two or three series into one new programme.
Personally I'd like to see the KITTs of Hazzard, or the Six Million Dollar ALF.
Above all, though, I'd like to see the A-Team take on the lizards from V. The only problem with that, though, is BA would never make it up to the mothership without being drugged, and the A-Team's complete inability to hit anything at all means that we'd all be lizard food within a matter of weeks.
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?
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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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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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McGuyver cannot fly. Don't forget, what good ol' McG did is exactly what the terrorists do today. Take household stuff and make big kabooms with it.
Not a chance that someone like that would be a hero. Besides, the days of the hero being smart are over. The 90s already paved the way, with Home Improvement and first and foremost Married with Children, the hero of today is the idiot. If there may be a geek and brainy guy, he must be the comic relief akin to Steve "Did I do that?" Urkel.
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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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do it yourself.... do a quick search for "retro cell phone" and you will find comments on all of the forums suggesting that someone turn the handset into a shoe... the demand is there, you could make a couple bucks...
There may be cars which talk to me. But where are the cars that talk with me?
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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.