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Comments: 243 +-   Knight Rider To Ride Again on Saturday September 29 2007, @02:05AM

Posted by Zonk on Saturday September 29 2007, @02:05AM
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Penguinsh*t writes "Though the movie version of Knight Rider has remained 'up on chocks' for the better part of the last decade, Knight Rider, the TV show is revving into high gear. 'The premise of the show will essentially remain the same as the original, which centered on a mulleted man righting wrongs with the help of a particularly chatty and souped-up automobile. No word yet on who will play the hero this time around, but the Peacock is looking for some new blood.' Besides which, 'the Hoff' is busy."
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  • NBC in trouble (Score:5, Insightful)

    by r6_jason (893331) on Saturday September 29 2007, @02:07AM (#20791785) Homepage
    I wondered how much trouble NBC was in, and now we know, this will be a really short lived remake I think.
    • At least they stopped circling the drain and went right for the sewer. No worries the other networks aren't far behind so they'll have lots of company soon enough. We've got all reality channels how soon till we have an all remake channel?
    • Who modded this guy up? Why? It's a pretty senseless prediction. You're going to say that the show won't succeed before it has even been cast? Based on what information do you make that prediction?

      Bionic Woman was a big hit for NBC... so how can anyone say that this new show won't be just as big? And don't get me started on Battlestar Galactica...

      Being a re-hash of an 80's show does not mean that the new show will suck.

  • Not totally surprised (Score:5, Interesting)

    by seebs (15766) on Saturday September 29 2007, @02:13AM (#20791801) Homepage
    I was once told that the original show was popular enough that they wouldn't have cancelled it, except they simply couldn't buy enough trans ams for all the stunts.
  • No word yet on who will play the hero this time around, but the Peacock is looking for some new blood.

    Why do I have a gut feeling that this movie will star Ben Stiller with an afro wig, and will be directed by Uwe Boll?

    • Re:hmmm (Score:4, Informative)

      by User 956 (568564) on Saturday September 29 2007, @02:24AM (#20791845) Homepage
      i just realized this is a show, not a movie. Go ahead and unleash the hounds (with bees in their mouths, and when they bark, they shoot bees at you). Also, I've been drinking.
  • Dave did such a great job in the SpongeBob movie that they called him back. Eventually.

  • Is still wait... (Score:3, Funny)

    by tmk (712144) on Saturday September 29 2007, @02:38AM (#20791905)
    ...for Baywatch: the Movie. It will be the first movie shot entirely in slow motion.

  • Car (Score:2, Interesting)

    by SniperClops (776236)
    What car will they be using as KITT?

    • Re: (Score:2, Funny)

      by Anonymous Coward

      What car will they be using as KITT?

      Toyota Prius, it's also being renamed to 'Eco Rider'. It'll be like Knight Rider, but more environmentally conscious. The car will also be blatantly homosexual, saying things like: 'Ooooh, I hope he planted a tree to offset those carbon emmissions!' when one of the bad guys appears in a big truck or tank.

      To appeal to minorities, 'The Hoff' will be replaced by an Asian lesbian, wearing a Burka, in a wheelchair. Don't worry though, the wheelchair will be capable of spee

  • "My Mother the Car" Version 3.

  • Stop with the remakes (Score:4, Informative)

    by phalse phace (454635) on Saturday September 29 2007, @03:12AM (#20791999)
    Hollywood. Please stop with the remakes. Let's see something original.

    How many remakes have they done over the past ten years or so?

    Charlie's Angels
    Transformers
    Bionic Woman
    Alvin and the Chipmunks
    Bewitched
    Starsky & Hutch
    Lost in Space
    The Dukes of Hazzard
    Fat Albert
    Miami Vice.....

    the list goes on and on.

    Can't wait for the Thundercats and Get Smart movies.

    *rollseyes*

    • Re: (Score:3, Informative)

      by TrekkieGod (627867)

      Can't wait for the Thundercats and Get Smart movies.

      Don't know if they're making a Thundercats movie, but you haven't seen the Get Smart trailer [apple.com]?

    • I hear that there's a growing consensus that the only remaining 1970s television show that the public is begging to see remade is "Good Times", so a darker revisioning of the old 1990s show "Friends" is in production.

      In the revisioning, "Phoebe" has been renamed "Geraldine" and is a serial killer who is hired by the Pentagon to do performance evaluations. "Joey" has been renamed "Angelo" and is in contact with a seductive alien who is trying to decide whether New York is a strange experiment and will destro
  • Might as well be if you take a look at the typical dialogue from the original knight rider.
     
  • I loved the show years ago, but these days people are used to their cars talking to them, so the novelty is kind of eroded. With good stories it could work, but I hope they don't rely on effects to drive interest.

    • With good stories it could work
      Chuckle.

      but I hope they don't rely on effects to drive interest.
      ROFLMAO!!!!

  • Team Knight Rider (Score:3, Informative)

    by deniable (76198) on Saturday September 29 2007, @04:00AM (#20792147)
    I thought they already had a remake. I guess they just needed to rehash this one more time. Oh well, let's hope it's not another Flash Gordon.

  • Tired, oh so tired.. (Score:4, Funny)

    by BlahSnarto (45250) on Saturday September 29 2007, @04:09AM (#20792171)
    Anyone else tired of these retreads?

  • "Ah, every week there is a canal" "Theres no need to yell Michael, im all around you"

  • We're too cynical and messed up for KITT (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Fantastic Lad (198284) on Saturday September 29 2007, @04:18AM (#20792199)
    We've grown some as a species in the last couple of decades.

    I don't think robo-cars are really all that interesting now. With stuff like Battlestar Galactica, and Heroes and Dr. Who on the air, and with the whole Star Trek franchise come and gone since Knight Rider, people have a somewhat higher expectation of quality from their sci-fi adventure. Knight Rider is a relic from the hair spray decade, when culture rarely elevated above space invaders and bimbos. I mean, we were listening to "Thriller" and "Devo". --Which yes, I realize aren't much more advanced than the latest. . , what the heck are kids listening to now? But still. There was a highly plasticized happy-happy fakeness to everything. A bullet-proof talking car which could jump over trucks? That could work in such an environment. But now? No chance.

    I'm not claiming that people today are any smarter than they were in the 80's. --We've got legions of cynical, drooling game-box junkies who are plenty dull, but that kind of stupid is incompatible with the stupid of the 80's. Our culture is too firmly tuned to violence to give a hoot about such a childish formula as a talking car. --Remember, fun in the 80's involved little multi-coloured cube puzzles and video games where you shot alien space ships, jumped over barrels and ate dots. Today we gun down simulated fellow humans for fun and pretend it hasn't changed us. We've become a race of fat, dull-witted warriors who barely blink when civilians are murdered by our troops. Our reaction to the present events going on in the world would have been very, very different in the 80's.


    -FL

    • Re:We're too cynical and messed up for KITT (Score:5, Insightful)

      by pimpimpim (811140) on Saturday September 29 2007, @04:32AM (#20792249)
      Wow, but errr, knight rider was a show for kids mainly, no wonder it seems dull to you 20 years later, with also you about 20 years older.

      Other remake idea from me, free of charge for anyone to use: blue thunder! But that one was actually about a guy who was disobedient to his boss, not the kind of story that is popular in this patriotic day and age. So was the A-team BTW, didn't they quit the army? Maybe the 80s did have a good thing to it, it just got obfuscated by the giant haircuts.

      • Re:We're too cynical and messed up for KITT (Score:5, Funny)

        by meringuoid (568297) on Saturday September 29 2007, @07:20AM (#20792591)
        So was the A-team BTW, didn't they quit the army?

        Quit the army? They were sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. Then they promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground.

        I'm also told that for quite some time, still wanted by the government, they survived as soldiers of fortune. And that if you had a problem, if no-one else could help, and if you could find them, maybe you could have hired the A-Team.

    • Re:We're too cynical and messed up for KITT (Score:5, Insightful)

      by flyingsquid (813711) on Saturday September 29 2007, @08:28AM (#20792853)
      Today we gun down simulated fellow humans for fun and pretend it hasn't changed us.

      I doubt it really has. We've always been violent monkeys, interested in violent entertainment. Before CounterStrike and Halo 3, kids pretended their sticks were guns or swords. Adults blasted the shit out of some deer, watched the hockey game, or watched Hamlet. Even by modern movie standards, Shakespeare closes the curtain on a decent pile of corpses. And hell, there was a time when public executions used to be a spectator sport, and let's not forget that before the movie "Gladiator", there were the real gladiatorial games, where people watched real human beings kill each other. And because they couldn't rent "Predator" on DVD, the Vikings sat around, got pissed on mead, and listened to "Beowulf". "Whoa, totally awesome! Grendel like ripped fifty guys to shreds, but then Beowulf comes in and like rips his whole freakin' arm off, and there's blood everywhere!"

      As for nobody caring about the death of civilians in Iraq, go back to World War II, when strategic bombing campaigns deliberately started firestorms in Dresden and Tokyo, killing hundreds of thousands of civilians. I could be wrong, but I don't think there was a massive public outcry over it. It was war, and they were on the other side, so who gave a shit? I think we've come a long way, that people even stop to think about the Iraqi dead and what we've done to their country, not that it's much consolation for the Iraqis.

    • Re:We're too cynical and messed up for KITT (Score:5, Insightful)

      by BananaBender (958326) on Saturday September 29 2007, @10:31AM (#20793623)
      Hmm, thank god, the current Battlestar Galatica and Dr. Who series are new, original ideas...errh, wait...: Battlestar Galactica first aired on September 17, 1978 Dr. Who started back in 1963 If those two series can be reanimated to be meaningful for today's generation, I am sure Knight Rider has a second life, too.
  • He is busy. I saw him do some his best work ever. It was a recent project produced and directed by his daughter. He was *playing* the role of a drunk...

  • The General Lee could kick Kitt's ass (Score:5, Funny)

    by dgun (1056422) on Saturday September 29 2007, @05:39AM (#20792401) Homepage
    A picture for your lolz. [imageshack.us]

    Hey, maybe they can have a reality show to see who gets the part of Knight Rider?

    *crosses finger*

  • Real question on every Slashdottters mind... (Score:4, Funny)

    by CFBMoo1 (157453) on Saturday September 29 2007, @05:52AM (#20792433) Homepage
    What OS will KITT run?

    Windows

    KITT: Micheal look out! The bad guys have guns! I'm opening the door for you to get in and be safe.
    (C)ancel or (A)llow?

    MAC OS

    iKITT: Micheal look out! The bad guys have guns! I'm opening the door for you to get in and be safe.
    *iKITT shuts down because Micheal fixed iKITT to go with a different cell phone provider.*

    LINUX /dev/KITT: I'm sorry Micheal, I just don't think you realize the power of EMACS no matter how much you tell me VI is better. I think you'll have to deal with the bad guys on your own.
    *Drives off in a huff*

  • I've An Idea For The Show... (Score:3, Funny)

    by pandrijeczko (588093) on Saturday September 29 2007, @07:51AM (#20792683)
    ... Rather than making the car intelligent through electronic & computer wizardry, they should instead make the new car "alive" as though it's posessed by a benevolent demon.

    And because of global warming, they should consider using a small economical car rather than a great big racy gas-guzzler - say something like a Volkswagen Beetle.

    And because the VW Beetle isn't known for its speed, they should paint it white and put a big racing stripe down the whole length of the car and a number, say a "53", to make it look like it's just been in a race!

    And then... oh wait.

  • 25 year old show was good at it's time (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Geekbot (641878) on Saturday September 29 2007, @11:13AM (#20793899)
    The show is dated. It was great at the time. I loved it. 25 years ago they only made shows about cars (Dukes of Hazzard and A-Team) and about computers with lifelike AI, normally brought to life by a power surge or spilling coke in a computer (Automan and Electric Dreams) or sometimes unlikely crime-stopping heros (miami vice or Greatest American Hero or again A-TEAM). Knight Rider was the ultimate 80's show because it took all 3 of these things and turned them into one show. But, 25 years later a show like any of these things just doesn't work so well. We are more jaded and this would just seem silly. I'd still love a reunion show, but I don't think the premise works any more.

    We've moved past an age where computers were mysterious, dangerous, and somehow held the key to the salvation or the damnation of the human race. Now we accept them as what they are, another tool that people use or misuse. They are not mysterious and no one imagines that they are going to start talking to you. They'd have to do some serious revamping to make me suspend belief enough to get into this show or to not hate it for making my precious childhood memories seem ridiculous.

    • Re:Hmmm (Score:4, Insightful)

      by nebaz (453974) on Saturday September 29 2007, @03:12AM (#20791997)
      Have you watched it lately? I loved Knight Rider as a kid, but I watched an episode the other day where Kitt singlehandedly stopped a coup d'etat in a Central American country. Beloved it should not be.

    • Re:Hmmm (Score:5, Funny)

      by rde (17364) on Saturday September 29 2007, @03:34AM (#20792073)
      Wonder what beloved 80's TV show the movie/TV industry will rape next.
      Actually, they should just go the whole hog and combine two or three series into one new programme.
      Personally I'd like to see the KITTs of Hazzard, or the Six Million Dollar ALF.

      Above all, though, I'd like to see the A-Team take on the lizards from V. The only problem with that, though, is BA would never make it up to the mothership without being drugged, and the A-Team's complete inability to hit anything at all means that we'd all be lizard food within a matter of weeks.

      • Actually, they should just go the whole hog and combine two or three series into one new programme.
        I was a bit old for them, but I used to constantly tease my brother about watching blueknightstreethawkthunderwolfteam. Then he'd cry, and I'd get a slap.

        IIRC at least three of them were more or less the same, except the super vehicle was a bike/car/helicopter.

      • Re:Hmmm (Score:5, Funny)

        by Tablizer (95088) on Saturday September 29 2007, @02:19AM (#20791827) Homepage Journal
        ...or McGuyver making nuclear weapons out of a cane, dentures, Bengay, and hearing aides.

        • Re: (Score:3, Insightful)

          by Opportunist (166417)
          McGuyver cannot fly. Don't forget, what good ol' McG did is exactly what the terrorists do today. Take household stuff and make big kabooms with it.

          Not a chance that someone like that would be a hero. Besides, the days of the hero being smart are over. The 90s already paved the way, with Home Improvement and first and foremost Married with Children, the hero of today is the idiot. If there may be a geek and brainy guy, he must be the comic relief akin to Steve "Did I do that?" Urkel.

    • Knowing network TV, they'll go in two directions:

      - If a car company will step and pay MANY millions for a sponsorship deal, they can make KITT *anything*. I will weep the day KITT becomes a Nissan 350Z or something equally stupid.
      - If no car companies step up, no doubt they will go after something like a Ferrari or Lambo, to cash in on the bling-laden hip hop culture thems darned rappin' kids are into these days.

      I wish I were kidding, but it's entirely plausible...

      • Re:So what about the car? (Score:5, Informative)

        by deniable (76198) on Saturday September 29 2007, @03:53AM (#20792135)
        They won't use anything Italian due to cost. They'll use something cheap and common enough to replace / repair every time they break one. I could see them use a Lada or Hyundai.

        Or they could try to do it all with CGI on a TV budget. Won't that look cool.
        • Ack, didn't realise I waasn't logged in, but yeah, the Tesla Roadster rocks. I just wish I could afford one...
    • They'll probably do something cheesey and make K.I.T.T. into some futuristic car like they did in Knight Rider 2000 [tripod.com].

    • Re: (Score:3, Insightful)

      by rucs_hack (784150)
      Watched the A team recently, C.H.I.P.S. Dukes of Hazzard? They were all cheesy! No-one ever died, except on the cop shows, and any woman who the male lead fell in love with.

      They were also, for the most part, great fun, and high quality entertainment as a result. This point seems to have escaped you.
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