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VIDEO: Another new Knight Rider spot highlights shape-shifting KITT
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The latest television commercial for the upcoming Knight Rider movie that airs this Sunday on NBC plays like an ad for Cars.com. KITT is parallel parked on a city street while a trigger happy nuevo Michael Knight gets busy with the key fob, experimenting with the GT500KR's nano tech-based shape-shifting abilities. We learn that KITT's shape shifting range is pretty limited. He can turn into any color late model Ford Mustang, and that's it. So when the bad guys are searching for an overly winged Attack KITT, the most sophisticated car on the planet will hide by magically transforming into a 2007 Mustang V6 with the Pony Package. This is where we sigh out loud and bemoan how bad this movie and the resulting series is going to be. But we'll watch it anyways this Sunday on NBC. Who knows, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is actually pretty good, and we were sure that show was gonna to suck. Check out the commercial for yourself after the jump.
[Source: knightrideronline.com]
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Benfolio 2:59PM (2/12/2008)
Can't view the vid here at work, but it sounds like I'm better off this way.
I too, will watch the movie (like the premier of Viper), but in the end I probably will not watch the show (like Viper).
We'll see.
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sw 3:03PM (2/12/2008)
I wonder if it could change from being a live axle to IRS. Seems it'd be more useful in getting away from someone in city streets that way rather than changing into multiple different mustangs.
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John R 3:06PM (2/12/2008)
knight rider? are you sure isn't this an autotrader.com ad? :)
joking aside. this is pretty terrible right here.
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icu812ru469 3:19PM (2/12/2008)
This show is going to so "jump the shark" from the beginning. it's going to run into Superman's problem during the '70s, that he became omnipotent and had no weakness. The original KITT was just a super car, but not invincible. From the commercials, it looks like this new KITT can't be damaged even being sideswiped by an SUV. Stupid...
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Menice 3:19PM (2/12/2008)
i wonder just how often we will see the blue oval in 60 minutes of TV. my guess is, much like american idol, it will be jammed down our throats.
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Eric Liberatore 3:20PM (2/12/2008)
Looking at the cars parked in front and behind KITT I can see that this show will end up like "I Am Legend"; a distracting Ford commercial where there are no other car manufacturers on the planet earth except one.
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Andrew Tanasescu 3:29PM (2/12/2008)
after seeing the product placement in Transformers, I doubt anything will shock me. I mean seriously, can they possibly shove more fords in Knight Rider then they did GM vehicles in transformers?
Xcountryflyer 3:30PM (2/12/2008)
Turning into a rental Hertz Mustang is sure to make you disappear, cept for the telltale bar codes.
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vwboyaf1 3:37PM (2/12/2008)
I know that this is "just a TV show", but how is it possible to just sprout wings, and change wheels from no where. In the originals, panels would pop open and you could actually see the change to super hyper mode or whatever it was called. I hate CGI for this reason. They should have made KITT a stealthy, understated, clean mustang. A sleeper. Everybody loves a sleeper. Then they should make the main character a quiet but determined guy, who is tormented by something he did in his past and now he is trying to make up for it. Instead, its probably going to be some loudmouthed dipsh*t full of wisecracks, and terrible driving techniques.
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almost Dr. G.. 3:43PM (2/12/2008)
wow. this is bad. REALLY BAD. i guess this is what happens when you develop a tv show when all the good writers are on strike. im starting a pot that says its cancelled after 2 shows. who's in?
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Seoultrain 3:45PM (2/12/2008)
I'll say 3, then a hiatus while they (unsuccessfully) try to fix it, then 1 last hurrah, then it'll be gone forever.
ALEXDB9 3:52PM (2/12/2008)
The guy can press the buttons as much as he wants, but its still a mustang at the end of the day.
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Kinder 4:00PM (2/12/2008)
OMG... So much negativity... How do you people
get through the Day?
The Video was well done, Had a good laugh....
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John 7:02AM (2/17/2008)
There is no way the anti-Ford, GM and other fanboys on this blog are ever going to give up on their negativity towards the KR show (or KR car). I would think that any self respecting gearhead is not going to enjoy the show very much because all of the gimics will be so obvious and phony for the well versed.
I was pleased though to see that the comments on YouTube were mostly positive, probably because YouTube is not as populated with auto fans, just entertainment fans. I have a grandson (whose name happens to be Mike) who will absolutely love this show.
Give it up Autoblog fanatics. This is not a show for you.
impr 4:18PM (2/12/2008)
lame attempts at humor. It'd be funny if this was the first time a gag like this has been done.. but paired with the "steady increase in body temp" and now this.. this show is gonna be a cesspool of failure.
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CJ 4:36PM (2/12/2008)
Wow. What a bunch of crappy photoshop work. Not impressed.
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Dave S 4:51PM (2/12/2008)
The original show sucked. The new one will suck.
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Omaxem 5:49PM (2/12/2008)
... and Val Kilmer's voice over sucks.
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Seoultrain 6:11PM (2/12/2008)
Will Arnett/Job Bluth FTW!
Oluseyi 7:35PM (2/12/2008)
Those were just horrifically ugly effects. Cheap, cheap, cheap.
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