The popular 1980s crime-fighting duo of Michael Knight and KITT are reuniting in a Knight Rider feature film, which will mark the first time the franchise heads to the big screen.
According to Deadline, the new take on Knight Rider will still contain its anti-establishment motifs while also modernizing the franchise for the present-day. Video game writer TJ Fixman will adapt the screenplay. His video game credits include Ratchet and Clank and Resistance: Fall of Man.
Director Justin Lin was announced to be rebooting Knight Rider as a digital series in 2016 for the gaming-centric digital studio Machinima and NBCUniversal.
David Hasselhoff starred in the original Knight Rider, which aired from 1982 to 1986, as a field agent for a public justice organization who fights crime in the Knight Industries Two Thousand (KITT), an artificially intelligent Pontiac Firebird Trans Am. Hasselhoff reprised the role in two television movies: 1991’s Knight Rider 2000 and 2008’s Knight Rider, both of which were intended to lead to new series (they didn't). The franchise has spawned numerous spinoffs, including video games and a convention titled KnightCon.