David Hasselhoff and K.I.T.T. on KNIGHT RIDER
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Knight Rider

Genre:
Action/Adventure.

Studio:
Unknown.

Production Company:
Revolution Studios.

Project Phase:
Script Stage.

Who's In It:
Unknown.

Who's Making It:
David Elliott, Paul Lovett (Screenwriters); Glen A. Larson (Screenwriter); Mark Ciardi, Gordon Gray, Glen A. Larson (Producers); David Hasselhoff (Executive Producer); based on the NBC television series Knight Rider.

Premise:
See Scoop Feedback.

Release Date:
Unknown.

Comments:
The NBC television series ran for four seasons, from 1982 to 1986. Two TV movies, Knight Rider 2000 and Knight Rider 2010, came out in the early 90s but had little connection to the original series. Then in 1997 there came a sequel series, Team Knight Rider, which featured four main characters riding around in talking cars and trucks.

Scoop Feedback:

March 19, 2002... Revolution Studios, the same cats behind The One, Tomcats and this summer's XXX, have bought the feature film rights to the 80's TV series Knight Rider. Original Knight Rider star David Hasselhoff (whom Germans love) will executive produce the movie and may also have a small role in it as well. Series creator Glen Larson will deliver the first draft of the Knight Rider movie's screenplay.

The spokeswoman also guaranteed that the movie's version of K.I.T.T. -- the talking car that Hasselhoff's character drove around in chasing bad guys -- will be updated. E! hinted that Larson's script is being written to appeal to fans of The Fast and the Furious.

"It's going to be a big action film," the Revolution representative told E!. "[Larson] is going to write the script but obviously it's not a remake of the TV show."

No word if William Daniels, who provided the voice of K.I.T.T. from the TV show, would also return in some capacity in the feature film. Revolution is hoping to have the movie come out sometime in 2004.

[Originally appeared on E! Online.]

April 14, 2003... There's another step forward to report today for the Knight RiderVariety states that David Elliott and Paul Lovett have been hired to write the script which, the trade magazine reports, is being given the Charlie's Angels approach: action comedy. Well, it's good to know no one's taking the idea of a talking Trans Am too seriously.

David Hasselhoff, the star of the original NBC television series, has an executive producer credit. The show's creator, Glen A. Larson, has a full producer one along with Mark Ciardi and Gordon Gray. The project is set up with Revolution Studios. [Source: Variety.]

June 1, 2004... An anonymous scooper sent in this email recently which, if accurate, gives us a look at what direction Universal Pictures is thinking of taking a big-screen KNIGHT RIDER film. Bear in mind that we couldn't verify what our scooper has to say but that other sources we checked with did confirm that this kind of focus group research does take place.

Here's what our scooper has to tell us:

"This information comes from a research session I attended in LA this past Wednesday evening. I can't mention the research company for obvious reasons or give any names other than one.

"The project being reviewed was none other than KNIGHT RIDER. First, they showed us a tape, it was obviously not real footage and was simply cuts of other movies and a few computer renderings spliced together to create a fake trailer. I gotta say, as rough as this demo was it gave me goosebumps. They even had what sounded like a newer version of the Knight Rider theme. It sounded like Moby music but I doubt they were at the stage of development to have someone of this status mix it up.

"The subject of the review, actually was not this video, rather it was whether or not the group felt this project could be taken seriously given the trailer we saw and what they actually termed, 'cheesy' reputation of David Hasselhoff. They stated up front right away that Hasselhoff would not be the star but that 'head honchos' were nervous his reputation could detract from the project. Most of the group said they felt it would not if the new star was reputable.

"And now for the big 'tada' which you may (or may not) consider good news, they said they had already been in discussions with Paul Walker for the role and that he'd expressed interest in this project rather than doing another FAST AND THE FURIOUS movie.

"They said they would not be in contact with us again about this specific project but that occassionaly they may survey 'our demographic' for other projects. They said they picked our group from a pool of peoplewho had filled out a registration card included with an unnamed DVD."

[Anonymous.]

A KNIGHT RIDER movie has been in the very early stages of development, with Revolution Studios behind it. TV star David Hasselhoff and series creator Glen A. Larson are both attached as executive producers. In April 2003 a screenwriting duo was hired last year to begin the process of crafting a screenplay, but since that time no further news has been heard.