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NBC Revs Up New Knight

NBC has tapped filmmaker Doug Liman to produce a Transformers-inspired reworking of the 1980s hit action-drama Knight Rider, Variety reported.

The network is readying a two-hour backdoor pilot for the series, with tentative plans to air it as a TV movie later this season. Liman is open to the idea of directing, assuming his feature schedule allows. If the TV movie clicks, a new-model Knight Rider could be on the air as early as next fall, the trade paper reported.

Dave Andron (Raines) is writing the pilot script and will serve as supervising producer, alongside executive producers Liman and Dave Bartis (The O.C.) for Universal Media Studios and Dutch Oven Productions.

The new show will explore the idea of "evil" cars to offset the heroic talking K.I.T.T. car of the original series, which starred David Hasselhoff.

The original Knight Rider aired on NBC from 1982 until 1986, with Hasselhoff playing crime fighter Michael Knight. Glen Larson created the original series for Universal Television. (NBC and Universal Media Studios are owned by NBC Universal, which also owns SCIFI.COM.)

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You mean K.I.T.T will be going against other cars like himself though they will be evil? Or just all evil vehicles and no K.I.T.T.?

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That's how I took it. You gotta have K.I.T.T. he was the show! Maybe they'll have little outlaw car gangs and K.I.T.T. will be force to go under cover and then he'll get into deep and become evil himself then they bring Hasselhoff out of retirement to talk him back to sanity... " K.I.T.T. are you with me little buddy?" I'm such a knob I used to watch this show in my bedroom at night when I was supposed to sleeping. "K.I.T.T. Turbo Boost now!"

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Didn't they try this a few years ago with "Team Knight Rider"? Without the Hoff I can't see this working, no matter how much I like Liman's work. The reason Knight Rider was any good in the first place was because Michael Knight was out helping people, and he just happened to have a cool car. KITT wasn't the focus of the show. And they already had an evil version of KITT, it was KARR. And an evil version of the Hoff too, you knew he was evil because he had a mustache!

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LOL! I know wasn't that great! And then remember the Big Evil Semi that was made out of the same stuff they made Kitt out of ah goodtimes goodtimes...

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Lmao!

I'd watch that show alot too. I'd always giggle how that car did just about everything for Hasselhoff though.

"Kitt, give me an inside schematics of the layout and show me exactly were all the bad guy's are".

"Right away Michael."


Huh, what? Where the hell was I when this was on?

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Trust me, you didn't miss anything.

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"KITT Jam their radio's!"

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I also always remember the great shine Kitt always had on him. Like an anti dust armour coated film on his body.

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That was his bullet repellent coating, the shinier it was the more bullets bounced off of it!

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