Retro Friday, 1994, 'Knight Rider 2010'

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By AmericasNewsToday.Org staff

What were they thinking?!

Knight Rider 2010 is a 1994 made-for-TV movie for Universal Television's Action Pack•• very loosely based on the television series Knight Rider. It is important to note, the film did not feature David Hasselhoff.

Differences between Knight Rider and Knight Rider 2010:

     — The car is a custom "Ford Mustang" built on a mid-90s Ford Thunderbird chassis, its grunge style very different from the sleek Pontiac cars that were the two incarnations of KITT (Knight Rider and Knight Rider 2000).
     — There is nothing in common with Knight Rider's basic concept, except the title, and the "one man can make a difference" concept.
     — Notably, early drafts of the script were far closer to the franchise, even including K.I.T.T., however the makers believed at that time there would be no hi tech cars.
     — The only reference to Knight Rider is when Jared, the head of Chrysalis Corporation, says "I'm no knight in shining armor" a nod to the original series episode A Knight in Shining Armor.

Plot

In a Mad Max style future, Jake McQueen is the ultimate smuggler, smuggling people for money to survive, only for his smuggling to come to a halt when he is busted by his brother while getting his truck repaired. However, What he doesn't know is that he is under observation by Jared, the crippled head of Chrysalis Corporation, who sends one of his most valued employees, Hannah Tyree, to bring him in to work for them as part of their videogames division.

Jake initially is skeptical about the idea of working with Hannah, and is scared away when she admits that she accidentally downloaded herself onto PRISM, a crystalline solid-state memory unit for her computer, once, due to an unexpected side-effect.

Jake is then hunted down after Jared has his data, and eventually finds his way back home, only to find his father near death. Acquiring a junked Mustang, and a special engine his father had kept in trust, he goes to find a way to stop Chrysalis.

While pursuing a lead, he ends up shot, and is witness to Hannah's apparent death, only to find she was trapped in her PRISM. Going into battle against Jared, with Hannah as his car's new AI, he eventually destroys him when he discovers the one side effect of Jared's life support... That it is slowly killing the person it protects...

Now, Jake and Hannah travel the world of the future, fighting for justice in a lawless desert that is forgotten by the world...

For more information, visit:
Retro Friday, 1997 - 1998, 'Team Knight Rider';
Retro Friday, 1991, 'Knight Rider 2000'.

•• Action Pack is series of television movies and television series created by Universal Television that aired in syndication from 1994 until 2001. The Action Pack initially ran a series of television movies that lead to the run of several television shows the following year. Universal Media Studios (UMS, formerly NBC Universal Television Studio) is the TV production arm of the NBC Universal Television Group.

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Jay Ohrberg is a car collector and car builder specializing in cars for film and television. His company Jay Ohrberg Star Cars offers his extensive collection of cars for hire.

Jay's car collection includes many film and television cars including the DeLorean from Back to the Future, several cars from the live-action Flintstones film, Ecto-1 (replica) from Ghostbusters, the Ford Gran Torino from Starsky and Hutch, Herbie (replica) from Herbie the Love Bug and other cars including a Chitty Chitty Bang Bang replica, RoboCop, a Mad Max replica and other films. Several of the main vehicles from TV shows including The A-Team, Beverly Hillbillies, Knight Rider, Miami Vice, and the Munsters.

Among the vehicles Jay has made:

          • KITT for the Knight Rider 2000 film. Jay also built the "super pursuit mode" version for the final season of the TV series.
          • Several batmobiles for the Batman Returns film.

Other customized cars in Jay's collection include a helicopter car and a 100 foot limousine called the American Dream, claimed to be in Guinness World Records as the world's longest car.

On the Web:
http://www.jayohrberg.com/.

 
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