New characters that are successors or evolutions of the original. Do it as a sequel of sorts, though not one that depends on having watched the original. Season two was gonna be dope, but Netflix canned it.įirst. He fires up the engine, KITT’s voice greets him, he lets out a smirk and does a burnout… next shot is kit launching from the burnout, and the hood light briefly turns from red to amber. Season finale cliffhanger: Michael Knight was able to steal KARR’s engine a couple of episodes ago, and the engine swap is finally over. The rest of the show is just Michael Knight trying to fix KITT’s engine.
Suddenly, the oil pressure light comes up, and a bang from the engine is heard, followed by the rhythmic knock of a con rod that’s seen better days. Interior shot: David struggles with his hamburger while the temperature needle shoots up into the red. The car continues to approach, and as it gets closer and closer, you see a 70-year old David Hasselhof at the wheel. In the horizon, a plume of dust starts to form and slowly gets closer and closer to the camera: it’s a clapped out 1982 Trans Am flat out in the desert (almost making it to 60mph). We need a hero, but will we get the hero we need, or the hero we deserve? Anything goes, because You’re In Charge Of The Knight Rider Reboot. Maybe it’s set in the steam-power era, and KITT can speak because of magic, not technology. Maybe Michael is Michelle this time around. Dark and gritty, with a brooding antihero? A bit overdone, but hey, you’re the boss. Weekly action-adventure for the kids, like the original? Sounds good. Who do you cast as Michael Knight? What kind of car is KITT-and who voices it? What kind of show will your Knight Rider be? Prestige limited-series drama? Go for it. But now you’re in charge: how would YOU reboot the show? Sky’s the limit, and you have all the budget you need. It’s been done before! See Knight Rider 2000 (1991), Knight Rider 2010 (1994), Team Knight Rider (1997), and Knight Rider (2008).
Where was I? Oh, right: rebooting the show. As you can easily imagine (but will see captured on video when you click here), actual Pontiac Firebirds couldn’t begin to handle jump landings onto flat ground, hence the model work and novel Bug solutions. If you’re watching the video, keep your eyes peeled for later-season jumps executed as miniature effects, and appearances of the easily-spotted rubber-body KITT atop a VW Beetle chassis. And wow, could the man sell a Turbo-Boost: Mock the Hoff all you like, but he was indelible as the leather-bejacketed Michael Knight and always played the role completely straight, no matter how absurd the action or ball-crushing the jeans. Elsewhere) to complete the show’s absolutely perfect main-characters casting. KITT was voiced by William Daniels (TV nerds will also recall him as Dr. Said car (which could talk, by the way-kind of a big miss there, Wikipedia) was “played” by the just-released third-gen Pontiac Firebird Trans Am, replete with gloss-black paint, button wheel covers, and a tan interior slathered with switches, 7-segment displays, LEDs, a CRT monitor, and a yoke replacing the steering wheel. Knight Rider should require no introduction, but if you’re just emerging from beneath a rock you stowed yourself under back in early 1982, it’s the show where “David Hasselhoff stars as Michael Knight, a sleek and modern crime fighter assisted by KITT, an advanced, artificially intelligent, self-aware, and nearly indestructible car.” That’s in quotes because I lifted it directly from Wikipedia.
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