Hasselhoff continued: "The concept, I don't really know. He sent me a picture of him in the 'Knight Rider' car. "The guy who's writing it is a major 'Knight Rider' fan. The Hoff said: "The details I can share are I have an emotional hand in it and I have a passion. The 68-year-old actor starred as crime-fighter Michael Knight in the TV action series between 19 and revealed that he is invested in the upcoming movie, despite not knowing if he will have a role in the flick – which is being produced by 'Aquaman' director James Wan. As it’s still early in the development of this new film it’s unclear yet whether this series will even make it through production, much less whether it’ll be any good or not.David Hasselhoff has an "emotional hand" in the new 'Knight Rider' movie. Hasselhoff last teased that there would be news coming earlier this year in an exclusive interview with Digital Spy, but so far its unclear whether he was referring to this film or not. The most recent attempt was a reboot series from Hasselhoff and James Gunn but this went no where. With these two failures studios have been reluctant to try rebooting the series again.
Team Knight Rider (1997 – 1998), and a 2008 sequel series also called Knight Rider.
Past MistakesĪs previously mentioned there have been many attempts to reboot Knight Rider and all have failed to capture the specific appeal of the original. According the Deadline press release the film will have a present day setting but seek to “maintain the anti-establishment tone of the original”. This project will be Fixman’s film screenplay, having worked up till now in video games like Ratchet & Clank and Resistance: Fall of Man. James Wan and Judson Scott are attached as executive producers. Spyglass Media and Atomic Monster Productions are currently attached to develop a feature film based on Knight Rider. In a new report from Deadline Hollywood a new take on Knight Rider is currently in development. A reputation which grew into an iconic IP, catapulting Hasselhoff to icon status (along with his other 80’s TV series Bay Watch), spawning a successful convention KnightCon, and several not-so-successful reboot franchises. But Knight Rider soon became a cult classic. The original series was not technically a runaway success at the time, only running from 1982 to 1986. In it Michael Knight, played by David Hasselhoff, travels the country fighting crime with his talking car KITT. Larson creation, an 80’s science fiction tv series.
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