NBC Web Press Release for: “Knight Rider”
This two-hour movie event, based on the iconic 1980’s hit television series, stars Justin Bruening (“All My Children”), Deanna Russo (“The Young and the Restless”), Sydney Tamiia Poitier (“Veronica Mars,” “Grindhouse”) and Bruce Davison (“Breach,” “Close To Home”). In addition, David Hasselhoff (NBC’s “America’s Got Talent”) — who starred in the popular lead role as Michael Knight for four seasons during the original series’ run — returns as the same character during a special guest-star appearance.
As the original story resumes, the new K.I.T.T. (Knight Industries Three Thousand) is absolutely the coolest car ever created: its supercomputer capable of hacking almost any system; its weapons systems efficient; and its body — thanks to its creator’s work and nanotechnology — is capable of actually shifting shape and color. Plus, its artificial intelligence makes it the ideal good cop partner: logical, precise and possessing infinite knowledge. It is the ultimate car — and someone will be willing to do anything to obtain it.
The three cars featured in the series include the K.I.T.T. Hero — a Ford Mustang Shelby GT500KR that is playing the part of the everyday Hero car with 540 horsepower; the K.I.T.T. Attack — a super high-speed version of the Ford Mustang Shelby GT500KR Hero car that transforms into Attack mode with the help of air-ride technology and specialized body parts — and a K.I.T.T. Remote, which is a driverless Ford Mustang Shelby GT500KR version of the Hero vehicle.
Sarah Graiman is a 24-year old Ph.D candidate at Stanford University, following in her genius father Charles’ (Davison) footsteps. But when men attempt to abduct her, Sarah receives a mysterious call from K.I.T.T. warning her that he’s a creation of Charles, who also invented the first K.I.T.T. 25 years ago — and that her father is in serious danger.
Sarah and K.I.T.T. track down her best friend from childhood, Mike Tracer (Bruening), a 23-year-old ex-Army Ranger, whom Sarah hasn’t seen since he left home at 18. Having served in Iraq, Mike is now jaded and lost and initially resistant. Eventually he agrees to help Sarah and the two set out to discover who’s behind the attempt to procure K.I.T.T. and find Charles. Along the way, Carrie Rivai (Poitier) plays the agile yet tough FBI agent who has a long-standing friendship with Charles and Sarah. Due to those ties, she is brought into the mix to help in the search.
Credits: Dave Bartis (“Heist”) and Doug Liman (“Mr. & Mrs. Smith”) serve as executive producers. David Andron is supervising producer and writer. Steve Shill (“Dexter” “The Tudors”), also a co-producer, directs the two-hour movie from Universal Media Studios and Dutch Oven Productions.
I’m holding judgement on the series in general, but the Mustang was the wrong car to use. It’s too agressive, to ‘look at me’ and just wrong.
The beauty of the car was that while it looked futuristic a bit, it was subdued quiet and unobtrusive until it opened a can of whoop ass on you.
plus without turbo boost, where’s the ridiculous jumps and all that fun physic defying stuff? No ejection seat? one of the funniest things I remember about the old series was when the two clowns tried to break into it all episode and finally got in when they left the door open.
Either way, gonna check it out but I’m pretty skeptical. Not as skeptical as I am of the new Star Trek but still not holding out hope, especially after the Bionic Woman result that NBC brought out