Knight Rider - How KITT moved...

This is an excerpt taken from the #1 episode - pilot and shows what really happened behind the scenes when KITT "drove" - "auto cruised"...IMHO, a super rare video!

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• KITT
• knight
• rider
• drive
• effect
• kitt
• driving
• moving

[ausknight2k]

The crew that worked on Knight Rider were just pure GENIUS.

All those stunts done with REAL cars and REAL drivers (eg. jumping over a wide ravine, ski mode, etc.) none of this fake CGI crap that movie makers are addicted to now.

Let's see a movie made today without the aid of computers and see how "good" their special effects are ...

[Ranja86]

Hey.. of course we all knew a car couldn't drive by itself.. but regarding we are talking about the 80s they did a great job! : ) Guys, use your imagination! And I personally like the little mistakes they make all the time, it gives more credits to the imagination of the producers. Nowadays, evrything can be done by computers.. back then, they had to be creative. :)

[JOHN11HOT]

did u know that this show used clips from movies I found that out a long time ago when I was looking some clip from the show and then saw some clips from a movie that are both the same because they use a few clips on there show like the dam brakeing down now if u have seen superman the movie and I mean the part with the dam brakeing down after a earthquake in the movie tell u what u think?

[qwuezalothus]

4 season of legend.

[Draknfyre]

@captainkmj

There's one particular episode where they filmed a shot from the side, and in the follow-up shot, you can see the camera plainly attached to the side of the car. They didn't remove it from one shot to another. I guess it was a continous shot, and they didn't want to risk stopping it because of all the cars involved.

There's also another shot where when you see him Turbo Boost, in a similiar shot to the above, you can see the car is a stripped-down hollow body meant to be lighter.

[Draknfyre]

@TheSteelersrock1010

Not only was the car the wrong car, but the show was stupid. They completely changed the dynamic from the original show. Instead of being one man, and one car, it was now one car, and 10 different people. They also gave the new KITT a terrible, monotone voice. Had no humor from the original, and used sex to get people in. Something the original NEVER did. They also made it one big plug for Ford. The transformations were ridiculous, and all Ford models.

[kjakobsen]

@ausknight2k

Not as if they had a choice back then. ;)

[DarkSlayer487]

@ausknight2k Its really cool that it was all real back in the day, but I think Knight Rider went through 80 something Trans Ams during its run. Its just far too expensive to do something like that today compared to just using CGI which also puts nobody at risk of injury.

[TheSteelersrock1010]

@2010thekingofkings i know you left this comment long time ago but i got to comment back ..you said the new knight rider only went one season and the original went longer and you think the only reason it went off cause they used CGI ...thats not it ..to many people didn't like the new show cause kitt was a mustang and not a trans am stupid reason to not like the new show but that was it ...to many people tried to compare it to the original thats the reason it didn't last

[generalagondray]

now with myth busters on it that can actually remote control a car so if they remade a half decent knight rider they could do that, and knight rider is up there with star trek because it was way ahead of its time and it was even before KR

[xazoulini1]

thats gonna break milions of fan hearts you know:) because they thought its driving by cpu...

[TonyW1000]

@captainkmj

It does defeat the point of having a molecular bondage shell but this is television and the window was down so you could get a clear view of the driver without reflection from the glass.