Well, it looks like there's going to be a Knight Rider movie coming out in a couple years. David Hasselhoff seems to be the driving force behind it, and series creator Glen A. Larson has signed onboard as well.
If they forget the horrors that Knight Rider 2000 and Team Knight Rider did to the Knight Rider universe, I'll be pleased. If they get William Daniels to reprise his role as Kitt, I'll be happy. If they get the characterizations right, I'll be quite ecstatic. However, they really need to change the freakin' title!
Posted by Captain... Mike (Member # 709) on :
take 2 drinks on Flare everytime someone assigns a universe to a tv show. (i.e. the 'Knight Rider universe' or the 'Simpsons universe' or the 'Kate & Allie universe').
Yeah they should probably make sure that they make it about a super car that can talk. That will maintain the Knight Rider creator's artistic vision.
Other than that, this will probably be fun.
Posted by Captain... Mike (Member # 709) on :
If they make it take place in the future or in space, my respect meter for Hasselhoff will drop from 11% to 5%.
Zero is just around the corner...
(heres is the THING that took us down from 23%)
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
Or take five drinks whenever CaptainMike works substances with mind-altering properties into a post on Flare.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
For some reason, I never actually clicked on the link in that thread back when it was posted. I wish I still hadn't...
Posted by Captain... Mike (Member # 709) on :
hey.. i havent talked about boozing in a while. and i dont usually. ( i only added that because the Flare drinking game is today's Hot Topic™ )
ooga chaka ooga chaka
Posted by Magenta Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
Oh. My. Lord.
I didn't completely despise Knight Rider 2000... it had a cool song, a hot chick, and some cool KITT-ness. Tell me this though, how can it be Knight Rider 3000 and also be "The Return of Micheal Knight"? The guy would've been dead for hundreds of years.
I suppose it could simply be the model number of the car (even though KITT was the Knight Industries Ten Thousand), but I have a bad feeling that this movie will somehow involve Micheal Knight's consciousness living on in a computer that gets installed aboard a vehicle of some kind.
Posted by Colorful Cartman (Member # 256) on :
*shudders*
When have remakes of old series or movies ever been succesful? More often than not, they only serve to destroy whatever fond memories people have left. Let the dead shows rest... and let the past remain the past.
[ July 31, 2002, 06:07: Message edited by: Colorful Cartman ]
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
He's been frozen, Aban. He was "injected with a deadly poison" & given the Austin Powers treatment (although it's going to turn into the "Philip Fry treatment"). Upon being thawed & cured, he'll be working with Devon Miles' great-grandniece, who'll coincidentally be named Devon (& no doubt played by a hot chick) & a new "younger Michael Knight type." Assuming the cast for Hasselhoffian similarities,...well, it could be anyone, really.
The kicker for me is, are they going to have been transplanting KITT's brain from car to car over all these years?
Mein Gott in Himmel! As one of DH's German fans would say.
Posted by Colourblind Harry (Member # 265) on :
And apart from Super Knight Rider 3000 (YAY!), there's also Thunderbirds 2000, King Kong and a whole bunch of movies based on various 'old' superheroes (what about Superman vs. Batman?). A bit cheap perhaps, but I think it's a lot of fun.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
quote:Originally posted by Magenta Aban Rune:
I suppose it could simply be the model number of the car (even though KITT was the Knight Industries Ten Thousand),
I thought it was "two thousand"?
Posted by Magenta Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
whoops... you're right.
why did I think 10 thousand?
Ok... so what was the car in KR 2000? was it the Knight Industries Four Thousand? I remember thinking it wouldn't make a very good name, like K.I.T.T. I think it was 4000.
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :
Knight Industries Two Thousand? That's what KITT stands for? I watched that show throughout my life, mostly childhood, and I never could figure it out. Ultimately I made up what I thought it's meaning was: Knight Industries Tactical Transport.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
You'd be wrong.
I've never seen the spin-offs, but if the car(s) were still called KITT, surely "three thousand" would make sense? Or "twenty thousand"?
Posted by Magenta Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
The vehicles in Team Knight Rider all had their own names... I don't remember what they were and I'm not bored enough to go look. But Team Knight Rider was stupid (except, of course, for the girls). It was right up there with V.I.P. and had no connection at all to the original series.
Knight Rider 2000, the made for TV movie, featured a then-brand-new TransAm with all kinds of new goodies, including the ability to operate on the surface of water. Sadly, the original model car never made an appearance except for brief flashbacks. All we got was KITT's cpu which didn't look quite the same as it did on the series.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Didn't KITT's CPU change in the original series?
Sorry, my memory of Knight Rider is really quite bad.
Posted by Magnus Pym Eye (Member # 239) on :
As it should be.
Posted by Magenta Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
Oh, but if we don't remember the great 80's shows... society is doomed to accept them again in a few years. Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
quote:Originally posted by Magenta Aban Rune: The vehicles in Team Knight Rider all had their own names... I don't remember what they were and I'm not bored enough to go look. But Team Knight Rider was stupid (except, of course, for the girls). It was right up there with V.I.P. and had no connection at all to the original series.
Except for some chick sneaking into the briefing room (did they LIVE on that fucking gigantoplane?) to attempt to access classified files on Michael Knight.
quote:Knight Rider 2000, the made for TV movie, featured a then-brand-new TransAm with all kinds of new goodies, including the ability to operate on the surface of water.
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The Knight 4000 was puilt up out of a Dodge Stealth to cosmetically appear extremely similar to the Pontiac Banshee concept car.
Posted by Magenta Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
Hmmm. I stand corrected. I'm not really a car guy. It looks like a modern Pontiac to me... but like I said, I really don't know what I'm talking about.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
"That back-talking boat is a bad influence." "Says you, woman."
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
I can quote from 'And Maggie makes Three' as well as the next man:
"Every week there's a canal!" "Or an inlet." "Or a fjord."
Now let's stop.
Posted by Nim Pim Pim (Member # 205) on :
The plot twists of "Team Knight Rider" were so ridiculous I had to go out in the kitchen and scream at the water faucet.
In one ep I zapped into by chance, two evil bimbo twins walk right into a military compound up to a helipad with a plot device "prototype heli-gunship". They sweet-talk the pilot who starts to giggle and brag about the thing, then the girls take out one handgun each and says to the about 15 nearby soldiers, who have M-16's on their shoulders, to drop their weapons!!! And they do so, dropping down on their knees!!! Then the girls leave, in the super-chopper of course.
I zapped away at that time, but I'm 99% certain that damn Team Knight Rider managed to destroy the helicopter without harming the beautiful twins, because they are beautiful and this is a kid's show.
Oh, and can anyone get me an estimate on how strong the engines on a Hercules-class cargo plane must be to enable it to lift off vertically, in tiltrotor-fashion? Posted by Colorful Cartman (Member # 256) on :
[ August 02, 2002, 05:45: Message edited by: Colorful Cartman ]
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Nerd.
Posted by Colorful Cartman (Member # 256) on :
He asked for it.
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
Please tell me you made all those up.
Posted by Colorful Cartman (Member # 256) on :
Afraid not.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Typo, though. One of the ones in the first line says "13" instead of "130".
Posted by Colorful Cartman (Member # 256) on :
Two in fact, but I can no longer edit them out. Alas.
Posted by Nim Pim Pim (Member # 205) on :
I was incorrect. It was a modified C-5 Galaxy cargo plane, largest damn plane in history, and it can take off vertically, woohoo!
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
quote:Originally posted by Nim Pim Pim: I was incorrect. It was a modified C-5 Galaxy cargo plane, largest damn plane in history,
You're still incorrect. The "largest damn plane in history" is actually the Russian Anotonov An-225 Mriya, or "Dream." It was an enlarged variant of the preceding 124 designed among other things to carry the various Buran craft atop it.
Posted by Magnus Pym Eye (Member # 239) on :
Yes, but the Russians don't count. They're backward.
Posted by ThoughtPyminal (Member # 480) on :
When I did a search for the World's Largest plane on Jeeves, it helpfully reminded me that Airfare to Tuscon is really cheap this month.
Posted by Prismatic EdipisReks (Member # 510) on :
quote:Originally posted by ThoughtPyminal: When I did a search for the World's Largest plane on Jeeves, it helpfully reminded me that Airfare to Tuscon is really cheap this month.
you should have used
or perhaps Posted by Magnus Pym Eye (Member # 239) on :
At least you saved them and uploaded them seperately. Else, he should have asked two gigantic penises.
Posted by Prismatic EdipisReks (Member # 510) on :
quote:Originally posted by Magnus Pym Eye: At least you saved them and uploaded them seperately.
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