I know there's been a lot of people on one side or the other about this car, but personally I like it. I've never been a car person, but the new Mustang body style is the only car that's ever "turned my head", so to speak. I was in 3rd grade when the original series started, so I was exactly the right age group at the time. What I'm wondering is, will this be family-friendly like the original? My son is in 2nd grade right now, and it would be nice to share this with him, and for him to start watching some live-action stuff.
Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
While I liked knightrider, I'm think NBC has really jumped the gun. First Bionic Woman (which I find to be meh) and now Knightrider. TV is becoming like the movies.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
I believe in recycling, but this seems a bit excessive.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
Kinda reminds me of that scene from Family Guy where the movie (or was it TV?) exec says something like "Guys, what the hell are we doing?? We've been doing the same stuff over and over again for years! We have to try something new!" And another executive beats him to death with a wall hanging.
Posted by Mark Nguyen (Member # 469) on :
"The three cars to be employed in the series include the KITT Hero -- a Ford Mustang Shelby GT500KR that is playing the part of the everyday Hero car with 540 horsepower; the KITT Attack -- a super high-speed version of the Ford Mustang Shelby GT500KR Hero car that transforms into Attack mode with the help of air-ride technology and specialized body parts -- and a KITT Remote, which is a driverless Ford Mustang Shelby GT500KR version of the Hero vehicle."
SUPER PURSUIT MODE!!!
Mark
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
Knight Rider was before my time, so I've only seen a few episodes. It seems like this is the general idea: Some guy who looks far more like a disco dancer than a secret agent drives a talking car with technology 50 years too advanced in order to take vigilantism to the next level. And look damn good while doing it.
Is there more to it than that?
Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
The car has(had)a British accent.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
And yet William Daniels was never British. He just sounds it. A little. But it's actually more Bostonian.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
And yet William Daniels was never British. He just sounds it. A little. But it's actually more Bostonian.
Posted by bX (Member # 419) on :
Very good diction, at any rate.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
KITT is GOB now, though, which is fantastic, though it probably won't end up the way I am hoping.
Posted by Ventriloquists Got Shot (Member # 239) on :
Mr. Phucking Pheeny, guys.
Posted by Reverend (Member # 335) on :
quote:Originally posted by Shik: And yet William Daniels was never British. He just sounds it. A little. But it's actually more Bostonian.
He did? Sounded like a posh yank to me.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
Like I said. A little. Sort of how Cary Grant & other British ex-pats still had that tinge of the isles in their voices.
Posted by Peregrinus (Member # 504) on :
Mid-Atlantic, it's called. I am profoundly unhappy that they're retreading the original premise for another go-around, and not taking the opportunity to build on it and give us the next look out into the future. I don't know what it would involve for KITT or the show's premise, but I have ideas. And they're not this. *grump*
--Jonah
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
Well, it kind of IS the fturue. Michael Knight's son, the Knight Industires Three Thousand...
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
Maybe they could have KITT trying to gain rights as a citizen instead of property throughout the series Posted by Peregrinus (Member # 504) on :
quote:Originally posted by Shik: Well, it kind of IS the future. Michael Knight's son, the Knight Industires Three Thousand...
I mean evolve the premise. Team Knight Rider might have been a good idea if the production and writing standards didn't suck. Need to keep the tech a couple decades out, though. Talking car is still nifty, but in these days of On*Star and SYNC, it's not as cool a gimmick as it was in the early '80s. With all the GPS, DVD, MP3, and other assorted gadgets making their way into cars over the last twenty years, even KITT's dash-o'-buttons isn't as unprecedented as it was. It's be like doing TNG with TOS-style communicators and computer tapes, even though we already had cell phones and 3.5" computer diskettes. Push the premise. Don't retread.
Me, I'd like to see the underlying premise behind Knight Rider, Team Knight Rider, and M.A.S.K. dusted off, put together, and some coherent whole wrung from it.
--Jonah
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Now all we need is for BJ and the Bear to be redid.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Oh God, just what we need, pathos from Knight Rider. FROM KNIGHT RIDER. I can't wait for the chillingly Wagnerian remake of Automan.
Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
Mi-chael, who was that woman you were with last night? Posted by Ventriloquists Got Shot (Member # 239) on :
M.A.S.K?
Like, honest-to-goodness M.A.S.K? Like, the camaro-with-door-wings-is-an-airplane M.A.S.K? The playset where the boulder shot out of the mountain M.A.S.K?
Dusted off, underlying premise, coherent whole?
M.A.S.K?
Posted by Peregrinus (Member # 504) on :
Look, just because you have issues with it... Take away some of the hokey pseudo-science and the flying Camaro, and look at what the team was about. Undercover, UN-sanctioned counterterrorism. Take KITT's Super-Pursuit Mode and add more offensive-defensive capability. Switch it up with terrain-specific adaptations. Expand the team with engineers and linguists and demolitions experts, and so forth. And then give all the vehicles A.I., a la KITT. Borrow a page from Michael Bay's version of Transformers. No, not the giant robots, but how he made them transform. Build that tech into vehicles that need to reconfigure, but not quite that drastically.
The actual masks would be an unnecessary gimmick, in this case.
--Jonah
Posted by B.J. (Member # 858) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ritten: Now all we need is for BJ and the Bear to be redid.
No. No we don't.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
Peregrinus: So basically, Stargate Atlantis without the space travel? Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
V.E.N.O.M is out to get you. Get you all. A fat, mustachioed old man in dress uniform and flying a heli-plane is watching you through your bedroom window while you sleep.
William Daniels rocked as Kim Basinger's dad in "Blind Date". "Shoot the dog. Are you alright, Agnes?".
Posted by Guardian 2000 (Member # 743) on :
quote:Originally posted by Sol System: I can't wait for the chillingly Wagnerian remake of Automan.
(SPEW!!!)
Damn, that was the last of my tea, too.
Actually, I realized something . . . I've got a GPS satellite navigator.
The future is now. Bloody thing even talks, though it doesn't crack jokes much.
Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
TRANS-AM FOREVER!!!!
Posted by Guardian 2000 (Member # 743) on :
I agree. This is Big-Nose KITT.
Part of the charm was that he looked kinda badass, but not like he was going to physically consume other vehicles. This thing looks like it has a maw that could swallow a dozen starships.
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
Was that a Doc Holiday reference? :-�)
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
Actually, there's a Boston dialect -- if my memory serves, found among those whose families came over centuries ago and were (and still are) very wealthy -- which is *very* English. (The joys of taking History of the English Language my last semester).
Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
quote:Originally posted by Guardian 2000: I agree. This is Big-Nose KITT.
Part of the charm was that he looked kinda badass, but not like he was going to physically consume other vehicles. This thing looks like it has a maw that could swallow a dozen starships.
I also don't get how the new car has two strobe lights, as this somehow demonstrates it is better than the original KITT.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
quote:Originally posted by B.J.:
quote:Originally posted by Ritten: Now all we need is for BJ and the Bear to be redid.
No. No we don't.
Not when we still have gems like Manimal or Matt Houston begging a dystopian update. Remington Steele: the next generation?
BRING BACK GIL GERARD! yes, I have seen him lately, and it is horrific
Posted by Das Liz (Member # 706) on :
Great... When can we expect Airwolf: The Next Generation to air?
Posted by Reverend (Member # 335) on :
quote:Originally posted by Malnurtured Snay: Actually, there's a Boston dialect -- if my memory serves, found among those whose families came over centuries ago and were (and still are) very wealthy -- which is *very* English. (The joys of taking History of the English Language my last semester).
I suppose it's a matter of perspective. To a yank I suppose he would sound English, but to a Englishman like myself he was just a posh yank. Perhaps a third party is needed, any Aussies, Canadians or mainland Europeans care to weigh in their opinions?
Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
He always sounded like an arrogant ass to me, no matter where he's from...
Posted by Reverend (Member # 335) on :
Well if you had a leather trouser wearing 'Hoff sitting inside you all day, trying to be funny, you'd probably come off a bit snippy too. Or not. Whatever makes you happy.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
I'm a yank, and I thought he sounded like a posh yank too... Posted by Lurker Emeritus (Member # 1888) on :
That wasn't mid-atlantic. Mid-atlantic is absolutely horrible upon the ear. It's nauseating. Mid-atlantic is a nesh English southerner who says barth instead of bath and car-sel instead of castle and does so while sounding as though they've only partially swallowed a large soft fruit, talking with a California valley girl twang and making too much use of phrases that begin with "oh" and end in an "!" all the time.
I feel physically ill listening to the worst offenders, who are usually middle-class Londoners who emigrated and tried to assimilate by copying the natives.
So no, the original voice was definately not mid-atlantic. He was far, far better than that!
I'd like to round off this rant against my southern dwelling British fellows by turning my ire upon the American car industry. This car they're using... would this be the same car that utilises leaf springs and calls it suspension? The same car with a plastic body shell that flexs when you lean against it and the same car with seats less comfortable than being dragged behind a horse along a cobbled street, and a quality of interior plastics that haven't been used in the rest of the Western world since the 1970s?
Nice choice.
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
Why ah do declare, we seem to have happened upon an awtomobile connoisseur!
Posted by HopefulNebula (Member # 1933) on :
You know, I never actually watched Knight Rider. Though one of my meatspace friends is totally obsessed.
*finds clips of KITT's voice on YouTube*
Boston. Definitely Boston.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
quote:Problem is, Arnett had a contractual conflict of interest.
For the better part of a decade, Arnett has done voice-over work for General Motors -- as the voice of GMC Trucks. NBC's new "Knight," however, is "played" by a Ford Mustang.
And this happened less than 2 weeks before airing of the pilot movie. It's going to be a lot of scrambling for the post-production people.
Posted by Mark Nguyen (Member # 469) on :
Not really. You put Val in a booth, have him read all of Will's lines, and swap them into the mix. TV people do it all the time when they re-dub their own actors mere days before delivery. An actor I know did a cartoon voice for a show once, but when the producers managed to get Rick Moranis as a "name actor" after the animation was en route, they put Rick in the booth and had him parrot every line that Scott did first in the same tone and pace. Scott was pissed.
Mark
Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
Val's be puttin on the pounds apparently...
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
I'll watch the pilot for sure. I won't even think about it. I loved Knight Rider as a kid and will just hope they do something cool with this. Of course... I had the same hopes for Bionic Woman and I was way dissappointed. Even Michelle Ryan's hotness couldn't keep me interested.
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