David Hasselhoff is out of jail and talking Knight Rider. In an interview with a London radio show, Hasselhoff dished a few tidbits about where the stalled movie project stands:
”Definitely doing another Knight Rider, we're working on the movie right now.” Says Hasselhoff, “We had a big deal with a big studio but they wanted to kind of turn it into a farce like Starsky and Hutch and I said no. Starsky and Hutch and Knight Rider are different. Knight Rider has such a major following. You cannot turn your fame back on the fans because guys will riot, I mean this is stuff that people grew up with. And so I want to bring a bit of a cool new Knight Rider in with a new car but also at the end Michael Knight comes in with the old K.I.T.T. and saves the day.”
Nice to see someone with at least some respect for an old eighties franchise, and no surprise that the studio sees it as nothing more than an opportunity for cheap, annoying parody. When asked specifically what role he’d have in the film it ever happened, Hasselhoff said, “I'm probably going to be taking over the Devon character, and have my son be like the Knight Rider. I mean, I can't go anywhere, anywhere in the world, it really is ten-to-one Knight Rider! It's just all Knight Rider. Baywatch was huge and still is the one that eleven years, worldwide, but Knight Rider was the one that really affected people because they were kids that grew up with it.”
Frankly, the movie is starting to sound more and more like the pipe dream of a washed up, has-been star. It only sounds more like smoke and mirrors when Hasselhoff starts talking casting: “We haven't really pursued it, my kids keep saying 'Dad, Orlando Bloom! He's so cute! Orlando Bloom!' They just want to meet him, you know. I was thinking more like Colin Hanks, I just got done working with Tom Hanks' son, he's kind of a Tobey Maguire-type. I like to have something like that, play against type."
Well, it’s nice to see thoughts of Paul Walker have at least evaporated. Though after a few days watching the Season One Box Set, I’m starting to think that maybe dim-wit Paul Walker isn’t far off from the mentally challenged character of Michael Knight. Knight says “buddy” nearly as often as Walker mumbles “bro.”
Regardless, its looking likely that the Knight Rider movie is going nowhere, which may not be a bad thing since Hasselhoff can’t find a studio willing to do it right.
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