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Knight Rider Series Coming to Machinima From Fast & Furious's Justin Lin


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Move over, MacGyver: Another '80s TV icon is being rebooted.

Machinima, the first global many2many programming service focusing on fandom and gamer culture, announced today that it has partnered with YOMYOMF, Justin Lin and NBCUniversal Brand Development to produce a digital reboot of the 80’s NBC television series Knight Rider. YOMYOMF and Lin will produce the new digital series that is in active development for a potential 2017 launch date.

This deal is another example of Machinima working with elite talent inside and outside of its network to deliver high-profile, live-action series to its extensive worldwide audience. The announcement was made by Machinima CEO Chad Gutstein.

“Knight Rider is an iconic franchise whose concepts of AI and autonomous vehicles were science fiction in the 1980s and are now science fact,” said Gutstein. “Justin is one of the leading storytellers of his generation and we couldn’t be more excited to work with him on re-invigorating Knight Rider for a new generation of fans.”

The series is the latest in a long list of long form, live action series based on the world’s most popular television series and video game franchises that Machinima has produced, some of which are among the most watched online programs in history.


It will join the likes of Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome, Mortal Kombat: Legacy and Mortal Kombat: Legacy 2, Street Fighter: Assassin’s Fist and Street Fighter: Resurrection, and Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn. Combined, those series have garnered more than 300 million views on Machinima




After its initial run with star David Hasselhoff, Knight Rider was revived at NBC in 2008. It ran or only a season with the story picking up the threads of a new lead who was the estranged son of Hasselhoff's Michael Knight.One criticism leveled at the new Knight Rider -- and one Machinima's series will have to address -- is the question of what makes it special in a world where things like AI and advanced gadgetry in your car is not all that unusual.

Machinima, though (as evidenced by the titles above), has a history of successfully translating nostalgia into vital current-day entertainment, so while the money and profile may not be as big for NBC in making Knight Rider a web exclusive, it wouldn't be surprising to see a successful series online lead to more down the line.

There's no clear indication that Hasselhoff will be involved with the new series, although it seems likely he had at least some idea that it was happening six months ago when he said he'd like to see a Fast & Furious-inspired reboot of the franchise.

Not that the franchise ever stays dormant for long: during its hiatus from TV, it was one of a number of NBC Universal properties brought to Lion Forge (and later IDW Publishing) as a comic book series.


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Ugh, they should really let this franchise R.I.P. already.

What, is one failed revival not enough? They could (and still possibly can) make a movie based off of the original T.V. series if needed. That would be a perfect way to settle everybody's nostalgia.

I see that they also mentioned MacGyver (2016) in the article. That's a bad example of a revival/reboot/remake that isn't doing too well. Heck, they should have also mentioned Rush Hour (2016) and Uncle Buck (2016) while they were at it.

I suppose I don't like the fact that Justin Lin is going to be at the helm. He'll turn Knight Rider into something like his The Fast and the Furious (2001) franchise.

Though, at this point, we'll just have to wait and see what happens. If it's anything like Knight Rider (2008), then I will not be tuning in.

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Ugh


My thought exactly

What, is one failed revival not enough?


If it was only one:
Knight Rider 2000 was the first try to bring it back and it's quite bad.
Knight Rider 2010 was...something. Horrible movie, barely had anything to do with KR but had the name.
Team Knight Rider was another reboot. It failed because it was really bad.
Knight Rider 2008 was another reboot. It failed because it somehow was even worse than TKR.

I think a reboot would only work with the same car, the same actors (and that's barely possible) because those are the things that made the show possible. Directors and Producers always think that it's the concept that worked, so if they just follow the concept it would work again, completely ignoring that the fans got attached to the actors and in the case of KR, the car itself. The Reboots brought in other cars that didn't work. They brought in other actors, that just didn't work and weren't popular.
It's the same with the horrible A-Team movie from a couple years ago. They didn't have the Van, they didn't have the Corvette, they didn't have the actors and there simply is only one guy who could play Hannibal the right way, same with Michael Knight. As bad of an actor Hasselhoff is, he fits the role.

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Well it's obvious that no one, and I mean NO ONE is intelligent enough to think of something NEW! these Morons obviously never heard the expression "beating a dead horse"! You Dildo's

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