David Hasselhoff: Knight Rider will flop without me
David Hasselhoff has hit out at TV bosses for bringing back his hit show Knight Rider without him.
The actor insists the new incarnation is doomed to fail without his star name attached.
Bitter Hasselhoff, who played Michael Knight on TV from 1982 to 1986, says, “It’s going to miss the target a little bit… It’s like have Indiana Jones without Indiana Jones.”
Hasselhoff recently told WENN he’ll have nothing to do with the TV series because producers ignored his ideas for the project’s hit pilot and ousted him as a guest star.
Hasselhoff claims he came up with the idea of reviving the franchise and even presented TV bosses with a plot treatment for the show.
But when producers decided to take a different direction for the TV pilot, which aired in America earlier this year, and cut Hasselhoff out, the Baywatch creator decided he wanted nothing to do with the new Knight Rider.
He revealed, “They asked me to come in and do a cameo and promote it and I said I would. But it was not what I had in mind. I didn’t get a chance to see the show until the final product and it was clearly not what it could’ve been. It was someone else’s vision.”
WENN
June 25th, 2008 at 8:22 am
I am confused…I saw the “Knight Rider” tv movie/pilot. David Hasselhoff WAS in it. He showed up at the funeral near the end and revealed himself to be the lead character’s father.
September 17th, 2008 at 11:42 am
DEAR DAVID HASSELHOFF YOU ARE THE RIGFHT GUY TO PLAY MICHEAL NIGHT SO TELL MIKE HE HAS NOT GOT THE JOB THAT YOU GOT THE JOB AND YOU KNOW KITT VERY WELL AND TELL TRHE GUYS AT NBC YOU ARE THE GUY WHO PLAYS MICHEAL NIGHT IN THE FIRST PLACE AND ASK THEM CAN WE HAVE THE SAME MUISC BACK AGAIN AND BRING THE SAME KNIGHT RIDER CAR BACK I WOULD LIKE TO IN VITED YOU FOR A FUN EVEING WITH ME IN MY KNIGHTRIDER ART ROOM
September 17th, 2008 at 11:48 am
DAVIDHASSELHOFF I HAVE GOT SOME NEW FOR YOU DAVIDHASSELHOFF I WOULD LIKE YOU TO COME TO MY KNIGHT RIDER ART ROOM DAVIDHASSELHOFF AND DAVIDHASSELHOFF PLEASE CAN YOU HAVE A GAME WITH ME ON THE COMPTER MINI GOLF MASTER 2
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November 13th, 2008 at 8:15 am
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January 26th, 2009 at 11:51 am
DEAR DAVID HASSELHOFF I WOULD LIKE TO INVITED YOU RIGHT NOW DAVID HASSELHOFF FOR A FULL FUN NIGHT IN MY NEW ART ROOM IS CALLED QUICK AND CRAFTY ART ROOM PLEASE COME RIGHT NOW DAVID HASSELHOFF I WILL MAKE US SOME COFFEE TO DRINK AND DAVID HASSELHOFF YOU CAN BRING YOUR COFFEE IN TO THE NEW ART ROOM AND WE CAN DO LOTS OF ART WORK TO NIGHT AND DAVID HASSELHOFF I WOULD LIKE TO SPEND THE DAY WITH YOU ON TUE MORINING AND AFTER NOON AND NIGHT TO GETHER AND DAVID HASSELHOFF HOW WOULD YOU FANCY GOING AWAY FOR THE WEEKEND A HOTEL IN BRIGHTON THE HOLIDAY INN HOTEL AND I GO BOOK IT FOR THIS WEEKEND
May 6th, 2009 at 11:40 pm
HI DAVID HASSELHOFF IWOULD LIKE TO INVITED YOU FOR A HOT CUP OF COFFEE AND IWOULD LIKE TO INVITED YOU IN TO MY ART ROOM PLEASE COME RIGHT NOW
May 22nd, 2009 at 4:47 am
PLEASE DAVID HASSELHOFF CAN YOU COME RIGHT NOW TO BE MY DJ FOR THE WEEKEND AND DAVID HASSELHOFF YOU CAN SLEEP IN MY ROOM WITH ME DAVID HASSELHOFF