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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.
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."
We have word of the complete lineup of panelists for the Knight Rider event being held on Thursday, July 24th at Comic Con. Scheduled to appear are:
- Gary Scott Thomspon (Showrunner/ExecProducer)
- Justin Bruening (Mike Traceur)
- Deanna Russo (Sarah Graiman)
- Sydney Tamiia Poitier (Carrie Rivai)
- Bruce Davidson (Charles Graiman)
- David Bartis (ExecProducer)
The Knight Rider panel is scheduled to take place on Thursday July 24th. Final panel arrangements are still being made, but
Gary Scott Thompson is confirmed. Also what is confirmed? The big
unveiling of footage from the series plus the new Attack-KITT, live and
in person!The theater holds 1000 people, so it shouldn't be too hard to get a seat, but I hear they don't clear the room from panel to panel. This will also be a moderated panel - where a moderator asks pre-submitted questions to the panel (vs the ask the question in the audience type thing), so we'll have more information on how to get your question asked as we get closer to the date.
Tickets are available from http://www.comic-con.org - and it looks like 80% sold out for Thursday, so place your orders now!
We were very fortunate to get some time with David Bartis today and ask few quick questions!
We were told that "things are going really well" from the production offices of the new Knight Rider series. They "are scheduled to start production on the series on June 23rd", in LA (not Vancouver which was briefly rumored last week).
Working with Gary Scott Thompson "has been fantastic" and has "continued to elevate the show in every department"! Additionally they are "doing some designing of the car to make it even cooler" as well as "adding some new cast" to the mix.
We've also been told that they will be at Comicon in San Diego in July. And so we will, to cover it!
When it was announced just over 20 days ago that the creator of "Las Vegas" and "Fast and the Furious" - Gary Scott Thompson - would be involved in Knight Rider a new level of credability became apart of the already talented team behind the new Knight Rider series.
Here now is part two of our exclusive two part interview with Gary Scott Thompson, Executive Producer and Showrunner of the new Knight Rider series, aring this fall on NBC. Be sure to check out part one if you haven't yet.
KRO: There might be some holdover from the people who did see the 2-hour movie.
Gary Scott Thompson: There is... and the problem is... look, I read your stuff, I read other things, some people didn't like it, some people did like it. Some people liked this character, some people didn't like that character. It's very hard to judge exactly what they did and didn't like, or who they did or didn't like. It's so much easier to say, that was then and this is now. That was the 2-hour, and now we're making the series. The series will have some elements that are the same, and a lot of different ones.
When it was announced just over 20 days ago that the creator of "Las Vegas" and "Fast and the Furious" - Gary Scott Thompson - would be involved in Knight Rider a new level of credability became apart of the already talented team behind the new Knight Rider series.
We spoke with Gary Scott Thompson (who will serve as Executive Producer and Showrunner), as he works on the preproduction of the series, on his thoughts about the past, and potential future of Knight Rider.
KRO: Thank you for taking the time to talk with me. How's everything going?
Gary Scott Thompson: You know, it's going pretty good. We're in there cranking out storylines and busting our butts to get some cool stuff and figuring out what this car is and what the car can do and what it can't do and what we're going to do here for a series.
Sam Nicholson is CEO and founder of Stargate Digital the company responsible for the over 300 special effects shots in NBC's new Knight Rider movie.
Here is Part 2 of our interview with David Andron. David has been responsible for writing and creating the new Knight Rider on NBC
Read part two of our interview to find out what he had to say about the project, the process and the future if it goes (when) to series.
We are very excited for one of our last interviews to be with David Andron. David has been responsible for writing and creating the new Knight Rider on NBC
Read part one of our interview to find out what he had to say about the project
