Knight Righter is back- a quarter of a century after the original series. There is a new car, a new driver, and some smooth CGI to make it all real. It most certainly is bigger, but is it better?
The pilot aired in February as a TV movie and is more than likely to be spawned into a new series. The story takes places 25 years after the original KITT (Knight Industries Two Thousand) -the thinking, talking super car that could throw the occasional one linter- is dismantled and its charismatic driver.
Michael Knight (David Hesselhoff) is forced to go into hiding.
In the new movie, Charles Graiman, one of the surviving members of the knight Foundation for Law and Government (FLAG) founded by Wilton Knight many years ago, it is revealed ,designed the original KITT. The opening scenes of the movie in Graiman's house tell us of the fate that befell the old car. The old 'KNIGHT' license plate and the steering wheel can clearly be seen lying around Graiman's lab along with several shiny black metal plates- heartbreaking, to say the least (that is ,if you’re a hardcore fan of the original series as I’m). Note: the writer belongs to a generation of kids that grew up watching Knight Rider.
UPDATED 'KNIGHT RIDER' REVS UP TO RETURN TO NBC FOR SPECIAL TWO-HOUR MOVIE EVENT ON FEBRUARY 17 AS NEW KITT CAR IS REVEALED
NBC held a press conference today officially announcing the return of Knight Rider to network TV. The new show will debut as a two-hour movie on February 17 with a cast that includes Justin Bruening, Deanna Russo, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, and Bruce Davison. Also confirmed is the return of David Hassel off in the role of an elder Michael Knight. Finally, the character we care about most, KITT, has been officially confirmed as a Ford GT500KR. The voice of KITT will also be none other than Will Arnett, husband of Saturday Night Lives’ Amy Poehler and ex-alum of the TV show Arrested Development. There will actually be three versions of KITT in the show: a 540-hp standard version of the character named KITT Hero, a super high-speed version that is heavily modified for combat called KITT Attack, and a driverless version called KITT Remote. According to NBC, KITT in the modern era is a supercomputer capable of hacking anything that plugs into a wall, and thanks to progress made in the area of nanotechnology, its body can shift both its shape and color.
The pilot aired in February as a TV movie and is more than likely to be spawned into a new series. The story takes places 25 years after the original KITT (Knight Industries Two Thousand) -the thinking, talking super car that could throw the occasional one linter- is dismantled and its charismatic driver.
Michael Knight (David Hesselhoff) is forced to go into hiding.
In the new movie, Charles Graiman, one of the surviving members of the knight Foundation for Law and Government (FLAG) founded by Wilton Knight many years ago, it is revealed ,designed the original KITT. The opening scenes of the movie in Graiman's house tell us of the fate that befell the old car. The old 'KNIGHT' license plate and the steering wheel can clearly be seen lying around Graiman's lab along with several shiny black metal plates- heartbreaking, to say the least (that is ,if you’re a hardcore fan of the original series as I’m). Note: the writer belongs to a generation of kids that grew up watching Knight Rider.
UPDATED 'KNIGHT RIDER' REVS UP TO RETURN TO NBC FOR SPECIAL TWO-HOUR MOVIE EVENT ON FEBRUARY 17 AS NEW KITT CAR IS REVEALED
NBC held a press conference today officially announcing the return of Knight Rider to network TV. The new show will debut as a two-hour movie on February 17 with a cast that includes Justin Bruening, Deanna Russo, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, and Bruce Davison. Also confirmed is the return of David Hassel off in the role of an elder Michael Knight. Finally, the character we care about most, KITT, has been officially confirmed as a Ford GT500KR. The voice of KITT will also be none other than Will Arnett, husband of Saturday Night Lives’ Amy Poehler and ex-alum of the TV show Arrested Development. There will actually be three versions of KITT in the show: a 540-hp standard version of the character named KITT Hero, a super high-speed version that is heavily modified for combat called KITT Attack, and a driverless version called KITT Remote. According to NBC, KITT in the modern era is a supercomputer capable of hacking anything that plugs into a wall, and thanks to progress made in the area of nanotechnology, its body can shift both its shape and color.
