Knight Rider 2010

Infobox Film
name = Knight Rider 2010
director = Sam Pillsbury
producer = Alex Beaton
writer = John Leekley
starring = Richard Joseph Paul
music = Tim Truman
cinematography = James Bartle
editing = Skip Schoolnik
released = February 13 1994
country = USA
language = English
amg_id = 1:154232
imdb_id = 110273Infobox movie certificates
Iceland = 16
United_Kingdom = PG
United_States =

"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.
* 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 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...

External links

* [http://www.fortunecity.com/tatooine/phlebas/339/id60.htm A fan website containing info about the movie, including a very early draft script.]
* [http://img353.imageshack.us/img353/9819/kr20106mj.jpgKR2010 poster]
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See also

* "Knight Rider 2000"