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Knight Rider cast picked, script transforms
Our friends over at Cinematical are reporting that the upcoming Knight Rider TV pilot will star soap opera stud Justin Bruening as Michael Knight's son. So far as we can tell, the script remains the same as we had heard a few weeks ago, and Steve Shill remains the director. Still no definite word if David Hasselhoff will make an appearance on the show.The casting of Bruening in the lead role is strangely similar to Hasselhoff's being chosen for the original series. Hasselhoff was also a daytime soap opera star before driving K.I.T.T., and was almost the same age as Bruening (28) at the time.
Should we go just ahead and predict a revival of Baywatch with Bruening as a buff and tan lifeguard, too?
And, oddly enough, there's also a Michael Knight on the All My Children cast. Hmm.
[Source: Cinematical, photo by Evan Agostini/Getty]
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Hank 5:46PM (11/08/2007)
so what's the new Knight Rider car gonna be???? methinks new Camaro??
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anthro101 7:03PM (11/08/2007)
I don't think the Camaro is sleek enough. Who knows though, new Vette ZR-1? New GTO? By the time production starts it might just be coming out.
I remember when the original series came out Pontiac at first didn't mind all the free advertising, but it got to a point where Pontiac wanted to dissociate itself from the show. You notice, because in some episodes other people would refer to KITT (like a police officer etc.) as a black Trans Am, in later episodes they would simply refer to him as a black t-top.
anthro101 6:58PM (11/08/2007)
One more bit of coincidental trivia. The actor Michael Knight is married to Katherine Hickland who was The Hoff's first wife in real life and played "Stevie" on 3 episodes of Knight Rider.
I've heard that they are having some conflicts with Glen Larson, because he owns the rights to the Knight Rider movie that is to be produced by the Weinstein Brothers. Word is Glen Larson might sue Universal. There is a bit of a power struggle, because Universal wants to have a show their way and Larson wants to have the movie his way.
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WillDaThrill 7:58PM (11/08/2007)
oh c'mon, you know the Hoff is going to make an appearance. You think some young buck is gonna upstage the Hoff on a show he and he alone made famous!
(sarcasm for those of you who were about to hit the reply button)
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strongbadinator 8:43PM (11/08/2007)
That dude has a huge mouth. I wonder if he's related to that Aerosmith guy.
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WetheSheeple 5:29AM (11/09/2007)
Instead of William Daniels doing the voice of K.I.T.T., I think they should have Carlos Mencia do the voice over. That would be interesting. "Dee-dee-dee, you left your keys in the car Michael, dee-dee-dee...."
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Chris 9:25AM (11/09/2007)
I am with Hank I think it should be a Camaro, allthough I have said this before (not on here) that the new Camaro looks kinda like a Cylon now it will look more like one. However the producers of the original Battlestar and some the recent episode of the new series were produced by the same guy as the original Knight Rider. Glen A Larson
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Vic 7:05PM (11/29/2007)
Whichever car Hoff uses for the new KITT, they must remember to have enough room in it for his liquor.
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