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Continuing our coverage of Knight Rider at Comic Con, here is a set of images with Deanna Russo, Gary Scott Thompson and Justin Bruening revealing the Attack KITT to the world.
Be sure to check out our images of Attack KITT from yesterday as well.
We were very fortunate to be there for the world wide unveiling of the new Attack KITT at San Diego Comic Con! We'll be back in the evening with more interviews with Gary, Just and Deanna, but right now check out these sweet picks of Attack KITT!
We're here at Comic Con where we just attended the Knight Rider panel and got some 1-on-1 time with most the cast. While we're working on getting that online - here are some photos from the panel.
TVGuide spent a couple minutes with Bruce Davison, talking about his character Charles Gramin and Knight Rider. Watch as they talk at length without revealing anything at all!
Found via Spoiler TV
NBC have been hosting a press tour of all their different shows, and yesterday was the Knight Rider panel. Here below is a selection of interesting sound information leaned as well as images from the event.
Ben Silverman and Marc Graboff quoted on Knight Rider today:
Ben on the cozy relationship between "Knight Rider" and the car company that sponsors the show.Graboff: "If there's too much product integration, we don't even like to call it product integration...we're trying to integrate it more organically with the show, in a way that is organic to the show, something that advertisers are comfortable with and the show runners, more importantly, are comfortable with. And which the viewers are ultimately comfortable with."
Did they go too far with 'Knight Rider'?
Ben: "Well, it's about a car, ultimately. . . that was the star of the show."
From BuddyTV:
The Knight Rider series will be quite different and more evolved than the two-hour TV movie. The differences begin first with showrunner Gary Scott Thompson (who previously created Las Vegas and The Fast and the Furious), who was given carte blanche to fabricate his own world. Though the basic characters from the movie will remain, certain character backstories will change. Mostly, the lesbian subplot with Sydney Tamiia Poitier's character introduced in the movie will possibly be altered.There are also new characters who will help to maintain the car by working in what Thompson calls the KITT Cave. Thompson added that he has a long-term mythology plan for the series through at least two seasons which is based on the origins of KITT. He posed one question that he promises to answer throughout the series: "Why would you put artificial intelligence into a car?" Finally, despite rumors on the Internet, there are no plans for Thompson to bring characters from Las Vegas onto Knight Rider.
From EW:
Knight Rider Panel
The Players: Justin Bruening, Yancy Arias, Bruce Davison, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Paul Campbell, Deanna Russo, Smith Cho and exec producers Doug Liman, Dave Bartis and Gary Scott Thompson3:09 pm: Thompson doesn't rule out a cameo by The Hoff later in the season.
3:11 pm: Echoing the opinion of 98 percent of the critics in this room, Thompson felt the two-hour movie was lacking several things. Among them: "a turbo-boost." Interesting. I would've said "a decent script."
3:17 pm: Regarding reports (OK, one report) that Las Vegas' Danny and Delinda might make a cameo on KR, onetime Vegas EP Thompson confirms that the idea was broached in the writers' room, but, ultimately, he decided "it would be unfair to the fans of both shows to do that."
3:30 pm: It was just a phase! It's undecided whether Poitier's character will remain bisexual in the series. KITT, on the other hand, will continue to swing both ways.
We were tipped off by members of our forum last night, they had seen a quick teaser on NBC on Monday, but didn't get a chance to record them. So we set out tonight and taped NBC. Sure enough, we got lucky!
This ten second commercial aired 7/15 during America's Got Talent. Mostly recycled footage but new audio and graphics - just a taste of what is to come!
Sue found another one:
We brought this DVD to your attention back in June, and even then we had trouble confirming it's existence. TVShowsOnDVD started to have some trouble of their own and got the word from NBCUniversal that they decided to not package the movie separately, and to include it in the eventual season DVD.
This makes sense to us - it's not really canceled, just postponed. Besides, we were always a little disappointed that the DVD wasn't going to be released in Blu-Ray. Hopefully time will change that.
dvd cover fan image designed by msKen
Following up our initial report about the Knight Rider 2008 Panel at Comic Con, we now have an official announcement from Comic Con themselves.
In addition to the five names we revealed, it now looks like there will be three new cast members joining them; Paul Campbell from Battlestar Galactica, Yancey Arias from Kingpin and Smith Cho from Blades of Glory
11:45-12:45 Knight Rider: First Look at the New Series and Q&A with Cast and Executive Producers--On the heels of NBC's hit sequel movie based on the iconic 1980s television classic, Knight Rider has been reinvented as a supercharged action series showcasing the new KITT (Knight Industries Three Thousand). Be the first to see exclusive footage from the new series. Moderated by Television Week deputy editor/columnist Josef Adalian, who participates in a Q&A session with executive producer/showrunner Gary Scott Thompson (The Fast and The Furious, Las Vegas); executive producer David Bartis (Heist, The OC); and the cast: Justin Bruening (Cold Case), Deanna Russo (NCIS), Sydney Tamiia Poitier (Veronica Mars), Paul Campbell (Battlestar Galactica), Yancey Arias (Kingpin), Bruce Davison (X-Men) and Smith Cho (Blades of Glory). Room 6A
Additionally it looks like the Attack KITT will be revealed on Friday and not Thursday as originally thought.
11:00am-3:00pm Knight Rider "Attack KITT" Car Reveal Location: Outside Tin Fish Restaurant
In an interview with ComingSoon, Val Kilmer was asked about how he became the voice of the new KITT.
As you might remember, Wil Arnett was originally selected as KITT, until an 11th hour contract conflict forced the actor to drop out. Val Kilmer stepped in to voice KITT for the TV movie and will be KITT for the series beginning in September. Here is his take:
He also told us how he got roped into providing the voice for KITT, the sentient car in the recent television movie and soon to be returning series "Knight Rider." "It was a really weird happy accident," he said. "It was very strange just because they called me, not Wednesday afternoon, it was Wednesday about 8:30 at night. I live in the wilderness and my private phone just never rings because if you know me, you call the cell because I travel a lot. It was ringing and I looked at the phone like, 'That's really weird. Someone's calling me.' Went over, picked it up and it was the agency saying, 'Do you want to be the voice of KITT?' and I said, 'I remember that show. It was a fun when I was a kid, sure. Should I do a tape?' 'No, it's not an audition. They're offering it to you.' I said, 'When?' 'Tomorrow at 7:00.' What had happened and I can't take any credit for it at all, is that the actor Will Arnett, someone had seen him on the commercial for a car company and called him up and said, 'I think we have a problem.' He'd signed, done the job and been paid for it, but then they found out his voice is owned for another car company, which they found out by accident."We asked if this was something he would continue doing with the upcoming "Knight Rider" series that was picked up after the success of the TV movie. "It is, they did and I am," he responded. "I'm doing it right now. I haven't done it yet, but I do the whole show in 3 or 4 hours."
TVGuide's Sci-Fi preview is out this week, and SpoilerTV was the first to bring us this clipping from the issue about Knight Rider. This might be potential spoilers, but Gary Scott Thomspon let loose a few details about improvements to KITT and how things might work in the new series.
Knight Rider (Premieres Wednesday, 9/24, 8/7c, NBC) In February's TV-Movie update of the '80s supercar show, fans got a new KITT, a Ford Mustang driven by Justin Bruening and voiced by Val Kilmer. Now comes the caboodle, as the ongoing series further tricks out it centerpiece. "The car's windshield turns into a touch screen you can interact with while driving 300 miles an hour," executive producer Gary Scott Thompson says. Bruening's Mike Traceur will give up some secrets about his past as an Iraq War vet, and three additional characters join the cast, including techie Billy Morgan (Paul Campbell of Battlestar Galactica). "It won't just be like Michael Knight calling Devon from jail when he needed help," Thompson says. "They'll be pulling off missions as an actual team." -- Tom Russo
SpolierTV has also been pretty forthcoming with information about the first three episodes of Knight Rider. You can check them out here.
