It’s not strictly movie news but it’s about Knight Rider so we thought you’d want to know.
The Hollywood Reporter, well, reports that the cast of NBC’s upcoming two-hour pilot Knight Rider is all but finalised with the addition of Bruce Davison (Senator Kelly from X-Men 2).
Hilariously co-produced by a company called Dutch Oven (maybe it means something else in America), Universal’s Knight Rider finds the son of The Hoff’s Michael Knight, a certain Mike Tracer (Justin Bruening), getting behind the wheel of the ultimate pimped-up ride.
In the pilot, Tracer is recruited by a childhood friend and her physicist father (Davison) to join the Knight Foundation, a group “committed to counteracting and preventing the damage done by private, covert military contractors” – whatever the hell that means.
To help Tracer out with his missions, and to give the show its raison d’etre, Davison’s eccentric inventor creates the second-generation KITT – an artificially intelligent automobile with a whole bunch of emergency escape gadgets at its disposal.
If all goes to plan, the show will go to a full series - teasing us with the potential re-teaming of David Hasselhoff and his smart-assed voiture. TV geeks rejoice!