Knight Rider Reboot Coming From NBC Later This Season
A new Knight Rider tv movie / series pilot is in the works at NBC:
NBC is bringing back the action show about a man and his motor, testing the waters on a full-fledged series revival with a two-hour TV movie/pilot, which the network will air later this season.
According to Variety, if the telepic is a success—or at the very least, not a complete ratings bomb—the Doug Liman-produced series will go into production for a 2008-09 debut.
NBC Entertainment chief Ben Silverman’s idea to revisit the indestructible supercar series was, per the trade, inspired in part by the recent success of Transformers, which may also influence the revived franchise in terms of introducing potentially “evil” cars to do battle against K.I.T.T. complete with cool special effects rather than the camp of its David Hasselhoff-powered ’80s forebear.
The sheer awesomeness of the Bionic Woman series premiere gives me hope that this won’t suck too much. I’ll try not to think about Knight Rider 2000.
