{"id":6883,"date":"2016-10-25T12:09:42","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T16:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/knight-rider-to-get-digital-reboot-from-justin-lin\/"},"modified":"2016-10-25T13:07:05","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T17:07:05","slug":"knight-rider-to-get-digital-reboot-from-justin-lin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/knight-rider-to-get-digital-reboot-from-justin-lin\/","title":{"rendered":"Knight Rider to Get Digital Reboot from Justin Lin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES: Justin Lin, the director behind the <em>Fast and Furious<\/em> franchise, is working with Machinima to bring back <em>Knight Rider<\/em> as a digital series.<\/p>\n<p>The digital series is being produced with NBCUniversal, Machinima and Lin&#8217;s YouTube channel YOMYOMF. The original <em>Knight Rider<\/em> premiered in 1982 on NBC and starred David Hasselhoff as Michael Knight, a crime fighter who was aided by his high-tech, artificially intelligent car KITT. A 2017 release is tentatively slated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em style=\"font-weight: inherit;\">Knight Rider<\/em>\u00a0is an iconic franchise whose concepts of artificial intelligence and autonomous vehicles were science fiction in the 1980s and are now science fact,\u201d said Machinima&#8217;s CEO, Chad Gutstein. \u201cJustin is one of the leading storytellers of his generation, and we couldn\u2019t be more excited to work with him on re-invigorating\u00a0<em style=\"font-weight: inherit;\">Knight Rider\u00a0<\/em>for a new generation of fans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lin\u00a0is best known for his work on <em>Better Luck Tomorrow<\/em>, <em>The Fast and the Furious 3\u20136<\/em> and<em> Star Trek Beyond.\u00a0<\/em>Next he will direct<em> Space Jam 2<\/em> and <em>Hot Wheels<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES: Justin Lin, the director behind the Fast and Furious franchise, is working with Machinima to bring back Knight Rider as a digital series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[1427,1429,1428],"class_list":["post-6883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-top-stories","tag-justin-lin","tag-knight-rider","tag-machinima","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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