Knight Rider producer interviewed: Turbo Boost, Battlestar Galactica and new Attack Mode
We all know what a disaster the 2-hour Knight Rider movie was (click here for a refresher). Regardless, the return of the series has been green lit for the Fall and Shadowy Flight recently sat down for an interview with Gary Scott Thompson, Executive Producer and Showrunner of the series. Thompson's credentials include creating the show Las Vegas and the original Fast and the Furious movie, and he also points out that he had nothing to do with the 2-hour Knight Rider movie that aired in February. The show's new EP revealed that he and his writers are leaving the 2-hour movie in the past. His new writing staff, which includes writers from Lost, Prison Break and Smallville, but also Walker, Texas Ranger and Charmed, is dealing with some of those plot points introduced in the movie that now can't be ignored, but are basically going to start all over again with the first episode.
You can check out the two-part interview by hitting the source link below, but the major bit of news revealed is that Turbo Boost will again be part of KITT's arsenal, though the technology will be reinvented for this era where fast cars that jump aren't all that mind blowing. Thompson also told Shadowy Flight that the overly winged Attack Mode KITT is being redone and will be different than the one seen in the movie. Finally, Thompson compares his Knight Rider series that's still in gestation to one of our favorite shows on TV, Battlestar Galactica. Both are reinventions of older TV shows, but BG is currently the shining light of modern television, while Knight Rider has gotten off to an extremely rough start. We hope it compares to the weekly trials of Admiral Adama and the crew of Galactica, but we're not holding our breath. Thanks for the tip, Neil!
Gallery: The new KITT - OFFICIAL PHOTOS
[Source: Shadowy Flight]
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Chris 11:47AM (4/28/2008)
Yeah, it took to the third season for BSG to jump the shark, KR did it on day one!
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cc 12:45PM (4/28/2008)
For his analogy to be correct, KITT would have to be a hot blonde model in the new show...
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Adam 12:30PM (4/28/2008)
"...but BG is currently the shining light of modern television..."
... what?
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theo 12:33PM (4/28/2008)
Meh, BSG took a cheesy sci-fi show, injected religious fanaticism, moral ambivalence, genocide and identity as it's main themes and became brilliant.
Other shows have tried, and failed to copy BSG's resurrection. (Bionic Woman, anyone?) The fact that KR is being helmed by the guy responsible for "Las Vegas" tells me everything I need to know... I'm not interested.
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Chris 1:00PM (4/28/2008)
you left out "sex", BSG would be dead in the water without it... especially without Tricia
Red 3:20PM (4/28/2008)
Bionic Woman was a lot better than this POS waste of time. And can you believe they're further insulting our intelligence by airing it TWICE a week? It'll air it's normal day and time and then it'll air again on Saturdays. I saw it on the fall schedule. I hoped it was a typo but then read it wasn't somewhere.
WTF...
pmalloy4391 6:21PM (4/28/2008)
I personally thought the movie was "ok" not as bad as alot of you guys are making it out to be. As for las vegas, It is one of my favorite shows on tv these days, the camera angles are great the story lines are fun I hope he brings some of that to the show
now if he could only use the G8 instead of the mustang....
Franz 1:06PM (4/28/2008)
There was a movie?...
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Go5Go 1:10PM (4/28/2008)
At least the guy is trying to distance himself from the movie. I'd do the same thing. Turbo Boost a must. The movie pursuit mode was sooo stupid. I am all into nano tech and deformable metals, but having crap just basically appear is way out there... of course half the stuff that happens in the original series is way out there too.
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Berto 1:31PM (4/28/2008)
Awesome. We can look forward to cheesy twisty plots, cliffhanger ending episodes and badass over the top fighting scenes.
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Miguel 1:31PM (4/28/2008)
After reading the interview, I don't know how good the show is going to be, but it will apparently be Super Cool(TM). This guy is an EP with a background in screenwriting. Great vocabulary, really.
He took the "mythology" question in a completely different direction; the interviewers were segueing from the lineup of Smallville, Lost, Battlestar Galactica and Charmed--science-fantasy, modern mythology shows--writers and trying to ask about how that background integrated into KR writing. He didn't know.
I take it back, after reading the interview, I do know if this show will be any good or not: it'll be horrible.
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Blake 1:55PM (4/28/2008)
He should produce Knight Boat from The Simpsons.
Announcer: We now return to "Knight Boat: The Crime-Solving Boat."
Michael: Faster, Knight Boat! We gotta catch those starfish poachers.
Knight Boat: You don't have to yell, Michael, I'm all around you.
Michael: Oh, no! They're headed for land.
[The poachers ride onto the beach, jump on motorcycles, and speed away].
Michael: We'll never catch them now.
Knight Boat: Incorrect--look! A canal.
Homer: Go, Knight Boat, go!
Bart: Oh, every week there's a canal.
Lisa: Or an inlet.
Bart: Or a fjord.
Homer: Quiet! I will not hear another word against the boat.
Hilarity.
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XGM 3:28PM (4/28/2008)
Hmm they still didn't fix anything... thats because it's still a Mustang.
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Razor 5:52PM (4/28/2008)
So if it is going to be more Battlestar Galactica-like, does that mean Michael Knight will change to a woman and become Michelle Knight?
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Anik 10:07PM (4/28/2008)
Lol i agree with the picture. i saw a bullitt yesterday. it looked amazing. or i think it was a bullitt. The car was dark green and no front licensce plate, it was speeding through the neighborhood.
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M 8:47PM (4/28/2008)
Battlestar Galactica is a great show, I wish more people knew to give it a chance (if they even watch SciFi at all).
I try to spread the word about the show; I found out about it when someone loaned me the first season on DVD
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Ian 5:03PM (4/29/2008)
KITT is the 5th Cylon.
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