Action-Adventure Knight Rider - The Movie?

[ChrisBaleBatman]

Just need this x 100

That's...so beautiful.

 

[dark_b]

the turbo boost needs to be in the final action scene and it needs to be used to beat the villain.

 

[zeroapoc]

Turbo boost to the MOON!

 

[dark_b]

I'm hoping it's not a comedy. I think they could get away with an action film. I don't think this "difficult puzzle" people claim, how can K.I.T.T. work in an era where Siri exists. I mean, K.I.T.T.'s personality is how that whole thing is supposed to work. A buddy cop film, basically.

not a comedy. the tone should be something close to Leathel Weapon where you get Michael and KITT with great dialoge scenes.

i would writte a movie where KITT is AI and only knows how to follow the rules. through the movie he develops as a characeter and then in the finale he risks his existence and saves Michael. by doing this he destroys the car and he dies. then you have a slow motion Michael Bay shot where the red lights go on and choir in the background. of course you have a sunset and lens flares. all the scientist are shocked because they didnt design KITT like that. boom box office records are broken.

 

[ChrisBaleBatman]

Well, Michael Knight should be a little crazy. It was always weird how easy going he (and then his son) seemed, even though their backstory was kinda ****ed up. You'd think they'd suffer from depression, or alcoholism, or something. Atleast with how messed up Michael's backstory was.

I mean, Michael Knight was a former soldier who had served in a war and needed to get a metal plate in his skull from his time overseas. Dude then gets shot in the face, and the bullet ricochets, destroying his face but doesn't kill him because the plate in his skull causes the ricochet. He's left for dead, but is found by a car passing on the road with Wilton Knight in the car who takes him to his Wayne Manor-esque mansion and has his medical staff there save his life and change his face.

I mean, even the nature of which Wilton Knight has Michael's face reconstructed into the image of his actual son, Garth, is all kinda ****ed up.

Michael Knight ought to be kinda like Riggs, with all that crazy **** in his rearview mirror.

 

[Jochimus]

Eh, odds are this'll be done either too silly or too serious. Sure, I'd go back to the core concept - Michael Knight, a mysterious crimefighter believed dead, and KITT, his talking supercar, taking down the corrupt - but I'd prefer they do it in a way that's VASTLY different from all the previous attempts Universal's made to keep this franchise alive.

Personally, I'd be inclined to do a reimagining that has a much more mysterious bent to it...less Glen Larson and more Rod Serling, if you catch my drift.

 

[Teelie]

I'm hoping it's not a comedy. I think they could get away with an action film. I don't think this "difficult puzzle" people claim, how can K.I.T.T. work in an era where Siri exists. I mean, K.I.T.T.'s personality is how that whole thing is supposed to work. A buddy cop film, basically.

Siri may exist but she's really just a voice on a phone that connects to a server somewhere else. K.I.T.T. is meant to be an onboard A.I. in a super-advanced car that can do things modern cars still aren't capable of.

It's entirely possible to do it but this is Hollywood we're talking about and they'll find a way to ruin the entire concept.

 

[ChrisBaleBatman]

Yeah, that could be interesting. I think I'd like to see them lean into the sci-fi aspect.

The '08 series took the 'too silly' approach. I think they could go with something that was serious, but still had one liners or some cheese. I don't think it has to be some completely dry-of-comedy film. Just, not what they did in '08. Just...not that again.

I remember hearing the same issue whenever the producers talked about writing the '08 series, where they seemed dumbfounded by how does this talking AI co-exist with all these GPS' and Siri, and how advanced our phones are, etc. And all I can think of is what you just typed, Tellie. K.I.T.T. and Siri are two different things, so I don't get the writer's block or issue I hear whenever that's brought up.

 

[KenK]

Siri may exist but she's really just a voice on a phone that connects to a server somewhere else. K.I.T.T. is meant to be an onboard A.I. in a super-advanced car that can do things modern cars still aren't capable of.

It's entirely possible to do it but this is Hollywood we're talking about and they'll find a way to ruin the entire concept.

Brad Copeland is the writer they've hired. . . . . and he's strictly comedy.

 

[Teelie]

So it will be a boy and his car type movie then...

 

[Dave McFly]

All I can say is THIS better be in the movie!

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[RetrogradeOrbit]

^^^^
Agreed 1000%

 

[RetrogradeOrbit]

Brad Copeland is the writer they've hired. . . . . and he's strictly comedy.

Dammit...

What is it with these idiots remaking stuff as comedic when the original source material was anything but.

For example, Starsky and Hutch was, in its early years for sure, very serious and quite violent at times.

 

[RetrogradeOrbit]

Just need this x 100

Even when I originally saw this as a kid, I wondered how the hell they got the car out of the apartment...

 

[Dave McFly]

Kitt even asked the same thing, after Michael knocks out the bad guy he and the girl he saves from the bad guy get back in the car, and Kitt asks how are they going to get back down , still an awesome scene.

 

[Dark Raven]

The 08 series wanted a modern car just as KR 2000 and other KR series put Kitt into a new body to try to appear more up to date. However they should treat Kitt as a vintage classic car and use the 82 Pontiac.

 

[Octoberist]

Ponitiac is the way to go.

 

[Dave McFly]

I agree, they made that style of Trans am body from 82 to 92 so there are TONS of them left so it would not be a problem of building an all new KITT but keeping him looking like the version from the classic TV show. In fact there are those who make replicas that are closer to what KITT was even more than the ones used in filming of the show 25 plus years ago.

 

[ChrisBaleBatman]

I think the only two options is going with the vintage modified Pontiac they had, or just a futuristic concept car design.

I don't think they can get away with anything else other than those two options. I don't think they can go with a Ford, again.

 

[RetrogradeOrbit]

^^^^
Great post, and I agree 100%

 

[zeroapoc]

Dammit...

What is it with these idiots remaking stuff as comedic when the original source material was anything but.

For example, Starsky and Hutch was, in its early years for sure, very serious and quite violent at times.

Just the example I was thinking of.

 

[spider-neil]

If it's a comedy I'm not bothering to watch. I skipped Starsky and Hutch because it was a comedy. I also skipped Dark Shadows because it was a comedy.

 

[<(o_o)>]

Can you picture it, Will Ferrell doing a bad comical David Hasselhoff impersonation as Michael Knight.

 

[zeroapoc]

Sadly, yes.

 

[KenK]

Can you picture it, Will Ferrell doing a bad comical David Hasselhoff impersonation as Michael Knight.

You're giving them too much credit! It's totally gonna be Seth Rogen! t: