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Knight Rider 2008 (potential spoilers)
18 years ago
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Yes, it's coming. A whole new Knight Rider, for 2008.
And it's going to suck.
It's going to completely suck.
* The Wrong Car: A Mustang? Really? Really a Mustang? A retro car, based on a 44 year old body design? That says futuristic?
Oh, FORD paid for a boat, and a hooker. Now it makes sense.
* No money or time spent on car design: Slap on a rice boy wing, some bling rims, and shove a scanner in the hood scoop. If you can't buy it at Pep Boys, for twenty dollars, it's over-budget. And make sure to leave the car logos on. We're making a FORD commercial, not a TV show.
* The plot - Herbie, Filly Loaded meets Short Circuit:
(This is the official blurb:)
"As the original story resumes, the new KITT (Knight Industries Three Thousand) is absolutely the coolest car ever created: its supercomputer capable of hacking almost any system; its weapons systems efficient; and its body – thanks to its creator’s work and nanotechnology – is capable of actually shifting shape and color. Plus, its artificial intelligence makes it the ideal crime-fighting partner: logical, precise and possessing infinite knowledge. It is the ultimate car – and someone will be willing to do anything to obtain it.
Sarah Graiman is a 24-year old Ph.D candidate at Stanford University, following in her genius father Charles’ (Davison) footsteps. But when men attempt to abduct her, Sarah receives a mysterious call from KITT warning her that he’s a creation of Charles, who also invented the first KITT 25 years ago – and that her father is in serious danger.
Sarah and KITT track down her best friend from childhood, Mike Tracer (Justin Bruening), a 23-year-old ex-Army Ranger, whom Sarah hasn’t seen since he left home at 18. Having served in Iraq, Mike is now jaded and lost and initially resistant. Eventually he agrees to help Sarah and the two set out to discover who’s behind the attempt to procure KITT and find Charles. Along the way, Carrie Rivai (Poitier) plays the agile yet tough FBI agent who has a long-standing friendship with Charles and Sarah. Due to those ties, she is brought into the mix to help in the search. "
......
No two ways about it, this thing is going to blow chunks the size of Alaska.
Lazy, lazy production. More of a rip-off than a remake.
Once again, the TV people have screwed up a classic.
And it's going to suck.
It's going to completely suck.
* The Wrong Car: A Mustang? Really? Really a Mustang? A retro car, based on a 44 year old body design? That says futuristic?
Oh, FORD paid for a boat, and a hooker. Now it makes sense.
* No money or time spent on car design: Slap on a rice boy wing, some bling rims, and shove a scanner in the hood scoop. If you can't buy it at Pep Boys, for twenty dollars, it's over-budget. And make sure to leave the car logos on. We're making a FORD commercial, not a TV show.
* The plot - Herbie, Filly Loaded meets Short Circuit:
(This is the official blurb:)
"As the original story resumes, the new KITT (Knight Industries Three Thousand) is absolutely the coolest car ever created: its supercomputer capable of hacking almost any system; its weapons systems efficient; and its body – thanks to its creator’s work and nanotechnology – is capable of actually shifting shape and color. Plus, its artificial intelligence makes it the ideal crime-fighting partner: logical, precise and possessing infinite knowledge. It is the ultimate car – and someone will be willing to do anything to obtain it.
Sarah Graiman is a 24-year old Ph.D candidate at Stanford University, following in her genius father Charles’ (Davison) footsteps. But when men attempt to abduct her, Sarah receives a mysterious call from KITT warning her that he’s a creation of Charles, who also invented the first KITT 25 years ago – and that her father is in serious danger.
Sarah and KITT track down her best friend from childhood, Mike Tracer (Justin Bruening), a 23-year-old ex-Army Ranger, whom Sarah hasn’t seen since he left home at 18. Having served in Iraq, Mike is now jaded and lost and initially resistant. Eventually he agrees to help Sarah and the two set out to discover who’s behind the attempt to procure KITT and find Charles. Along the way, Carrie Rivai (Poitier) plays the agile yet tough FBI agent who has a long-standing friendship with Charles and Sarah. Due to those ties, she is brought into the mix to help in the search. "
......
No two ways about it, this thing is going to blow chunks the size of Alaska.
Lazy, lazy production. More of a rip-off than a remake.
Once again, the TV people have screwed up a classic.
I'm watching the NBC press reveal of the new car. It's even worse than I originally thought.
KITT will likely spend most of his time looking stone stock. A regular, off the rack Ford Mustang.
There's a special "attack mode" version of KITT which is the "custom" version with the goofy wing. I'm suspecting there will be CGI as it changes from one, to the other. (Anyone remember VIPER?)
The fact that the production has only three cars - (Stone Stock / Stone Stock with remote control driving / Attack Mode KITT) - means that our chances of seeing any actual stuntwork is highly improbable.
So, no Turbo Boost.
Makes me wonder why they even bothered.
I have the NES game still if that means anything to you.
Wunner what the theme song will sound like?
Incidentally one of the cars was (at-least until recently) here in Dublin, CA at Kassabian Motors.
But yeah I remember Viper, Airwolf. The fact that most of my cartoons I grew up watching as a kid are being made into movies is kinda sad
if the official blurb is "herbie fully loaded meets short circuit" then whoever wrte that should be fired...ALOT! it's crap like "the new Kitt is absolutely the collest car ever created" tate makes me wanna puke. it sounds like some over the hill moron who wouldn't know cool if it hit them between the eyes wrote that.
i'll give it the benefit of the doubt for now. it's just one made for TV movie and let's face it, itcan NOT be any worse than the one they did in the 90's there, what was it Knight Rider 2000? or hey, how about that AWESOME Team Knight Rider?
Aparrently, the scanner light was a complete afterthought. The designer left it off, and nobody caught that until the full size, complted vehicle was delivered to them without one.
So they had to retrofit one into the car's pre-existing hood scoop.
"herbie, fully loaded meets Short Circuit" is not the official blurb. The official blurb is the paragraphs of plotline which follows it.
"herbie, fully loaded meets Short Circuit" is my take on the plot.
Knight Rider 2000 wasn't that great, but at least they spent money on the car, and bothered to make it fit properly into the Knight Rider universe. Michael Knight, Devin, FLAG and all.
Team Knight Rider was a joke. Even the Hoff wouldn't perform on that turkey. (and whadda ya know, TKR had stone-stock FORD vehicles in it. Funny thing.)
oh thank god! i thought that "herbie Fully Loaded" thing was official XD you had me worried there. XD and you're fired for writing it. (joke! cause i'd never fire you, you draw porn)
yeah, they spent money on the car in Knight Rider 2000 where they should have spent it on writing. (sonic stunners? cryo prisons? my ass!) besides, that car looked like the basterd child of a Sunfire and a Banshee and was a front wheel drive and red and given to a chick in the end...if they take the plot more seriously in the new film, i think i'll over look the production design (or lack of one) in the new car. aside from that, they were in negotiations to get Hoff to appear as Michael Knight last i heard. don't know if it would be a regular thing if the series takes off, but who knows.
yeah, i loved TKR's cars. i loved how they had a dash board thing for the AI and that was it. XP i do remember a stock corvette there too, though...i only seen one episode of TKR...well, i say i seen it but it bored me to sleep. a good thing too, it was time better spent sleeping anyway.
If It doesn't have to be a new car: A 1993/2003 style Firebird would be perfect.
But then, with a proper designer, and a little fiberglass, you could turn nearly anything into a new Knight Rider. A little effort, and a little fiberglass can work wonders. But then FORD wouldn't pay for the hookers and blow.
i think the ONLY real reason they did a new car is because Frod gives them a ton of money for the product pacement and that's less money the studio has to pay for the show if it winds up sucking which it probably will.
A FORD commercial.
Feh.
Seriously, did you expect anything different? :P But calling the original show a "classic" might be a liiiiittle bit of a stretch. Something doesn't necessarily qualify as a "classic" just because it was around when you grew up. I was there too, and it was pretty cheesy. And if cheesy + 80's = classic, then God help us, because that means that Taco's "Puttin' On The Ritz" just became a classic lol.
80's cheese is good food.
I'll give it a look see, but I certainly don't hold out much hope for it.
The one where Herbie was a robotic science experiment, built by a scientist, complete with a \"h.e.r.b.i.e\" nameplate on his computer core?
The one that totally trashes the whole history of the Herbie series in one go?
That was what immediately lept to mind when I first started reading the details of this clinker.
(that reminds me the window is stuck and I need to fix it)
I wouldn't hire Leonard Nimoy to play B.A Barrackus, in a remake of The A-Team, though.
The right face, for the right role. A Mustang is just wrong for KITT.
http://www.forum-auto.com/automobil.....t/sujet244.htm
http://www.forum-auto.com/les-clubs.....ujet366887.htm
I agree that using a regular Mustang is a stupid idea. They should have at least used some futuristic looking prototype. Ford have some nice concept cars that could have looked great. But looks like the idea here is not to create an interesting new vehicle but the sell the ones they already have in stock.
That, right there.
I'd change the rims, though.
Holee crap that's wicked looking!
http://www.furaffinity.net/full/980331/
Examples.
Dukes of Hazzard: Only thing good about it was the General Lee.
Dukes of Hazzard: The beginning.: absolutly wrong backstory on how they got a hold of the car. It was used in a robbery and left in an auto yard where the Dukes picked it up. NOT sunk in a lake.
Herbie Fully Loaded: CGI usage sucked
They totally DESTROYED Kitt and part of Kitt ended up in a woman :o
I mean jeez we love a tv show and they make it suck when they do a TV movie of it ..
they screwed up LA LAW , Facts of life and now this
sheesh mother fuicking :(
Hey remember the two NOVELS of the Knight Rider :D
sigh give me reruns any day :)
PS Love the briefs that he's wearing :D
Cmon, Ford's poppin a massive boner over their new Bullitt edition mustang and they used an 80'90's mustang design?
It looks like someone did a cheap home mod on their car :P