KITT FROM KNIGHT RIDER
Michael Knight and KITT are returning in 2017. BLEEDING COOL reports that Justin Lin who directed Fast Five and Fast and Furious 6 will be rebooting the classic 80's TV series as a digital web series in 2017 for NBC Universal. Lin is teaming up with Machinima which has produced many reboots of classic franchises such as Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat.
The original TV show which aired on NBC from 1982-1986 starred David Hasselhoff who played Michael Knight who worked for the Foundation for Law and Government (FLAG) taking down criminals with help from his talking Super car KITT (Knight Industries Two Thousand). KITT had many special abilities. Not only could he talk, but he could operate himself, was impervious to injury, could jump over things, and run at super speed.
As a fan of the 80's TV show I will be interested on what aspects of the original show that this new reboot keeps and what it changes. With most of our technology mirroring KITT now some 30 years later it will be interesting to see how update KITT's technological advances.
It will also be interesting to see what they do with Michael Knight. In the original series he starts off as Michael Long a police detective and former Army ranger that is shot in the face while undercover and thought dead. He survives and receives a new face thanks to FLAG and takes on a new identity as Michael Knight, a "man who does not exist".
With Justin Lin and Machinima's great record of success, I think the Knight Rider franchise is in very good hands. 2017 should be a really good year. The year of the Knight Rider.
Class Dismissed,
THE PROFESSOR
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