Knight Rider 2010

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Movie
German title Knight Rider 2010,
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Original title Knight Rider 2010
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1994
length 86 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Sam Pillsbury
script John Leekley
production Alex Beaton ,
Rob Cohen ,
John Leekley
music Tim Truman
camera James Bartle
cut Skip Schoolnik
occupation
chronology

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Knight Rider 2000

Knight Rider 2010 is a television film produced in 1994 under the direction of Sam Pillsbury in the United States .

action

At some point in the distant future: a safe life is only possible in dome-shaped cities. Outside this dome there is an almost unlawful space. Jake McQueen lives in this world . He's a people smuggler; but pursues good goals. Since his actions are illegal, his brother Marshal Will McQueen was put on him. After he is caught, Jake is offered to be on the good side of the law as a driver outside the dome . He refuses and is sent to jail, but is brought out on bail by his old love, Hannah Tyrie . When Jakes and Will's father, Seek McQueen , who runs a garage outside the dome, is ambushed and killed, Jake and his friend Dean build a bulletproof, heavily armed car based on a 1969 Ford Mustang . First, Jake sets out to find the killer of his stepfather Seek . At the last moment, Jake manages to save his brother Will , who fails as a marshal in the task of arresting his father's murderer. After Will is rescued, Jake returns to Hannah , who is treating him because he was shot. That same night, Hannah's mind is trapped in a storage crystal, a prism, in a kind of virtual reality application. Jake manages to get hold of the prism and with it leave the premises of Hannah's employer. Dean then builds the prism into the Mustang. As a result, the prism has control over the vehicle and can verbally communicate with the outside world. So Jake and Hannah finally put down Hannah 's boss, who is responsible for both her condition and the murder of Jake's father.

criticism

"A tangled mixture of crude action and science fiction that borders on ridiculous."

- Lexicon of international film

Others

  • The script for the film was changed several times. In a first version of the script, Michael Knight & KITT appear, where Michael Knight has the role of company director and the Foundation as the police ensure law and order. Every “employee” is called a “Knight Rider” and also drives his own KITT vehicle. The second script on which the film is based also has allusions to the television series. For example, in the script, all weapons that Jake gets built into the car are also used. Many extras are identical to those from the original Knight Rider TV series. Lasers, fog throwers, microwave generators, etc. Jake uses the car to break through walls and fences and Hannah, who is called Cat in script number 2, even maneuvers on 2 tires when things get tight. There are also allusions and hints about the "legendary man with his high-tech car" and one learns from the second script that Jake is the son of Stevie Mason and Michael Long. Jake was born before Michael Long was pronounced dead. Stevie had to switch to the witness protection program and put her son up for adoption to protect him. Many of these key scenes had already been filmed at Universal Studios, but had to be removed from the film for cost reasons, as the studio refused to spend a large amount.
  • Knight Rider 2010 was part of the "Action Pack" from Universal Studios. These were several television films that were used as pilot films for new series. In addition to Knight Rider 2010 there was "Tekwar", "Midnight Run", "Hercules", "Bandit", and "Vanishing Son". Knight Rider 2010 had the best ratings of its time of the pilot films shown, but the series was not implemented. Universal ultimately decided on the TV series Hercules .
  • Brion James, who plays the villain Jared, is known from films like "Cherry 2000", "Red Heat" or "The Fifth Element"
  • Producer Alex Beaton is known for producing the legendary television series Kung Fu , for which he produced 35 episodes.
  • Film editor Skip Schoolnik later landed a huge hit. He was used until the end in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer .
  • While Knight Rider 2000 is set in a kind of utopian future in which all deadly weapons are banned, the basic scenario of Knight Rider 2010 with its safe domed cities and lawless, desert-like outskirts is more reminiscent of a mixture of Judge Dredd and Mad Max .
  • A Ford Thunderbird from the early 1990s was used in the film for the supposed Ford Mustang . The prototype of the car was initially matt black and not installed. The shape was more reminiscent of the car from the 1980s television series. This “concept car” was built by Jay Ohrberg in Los Angeles and designed by the illustrator Richard Ory. The blueprints published on Jay Ohrberg's website show that the Knight 4000 served as the basis, because the dashboard of the first vehicle is identical to that of the Knight 4000. It is unclear why the vehicle was later handed over to another company and redesigned again, probably to save costs for the film.
  • Only after more than two thirds of the game time is Hannah's mind separated from her body and trapped in a prism (about 64 minutes) and then added as a computer interface to the previously built "super car" (about 69 minutes), which Hannah's mind can then control. By not using the missing scenes with the Knight Rider car, the transition is missing. You can tell when Jake enters the house at night to look for the prism. All of this happens seamlessly and without meaning. Only after the prism has been installed does the car have an “artificial” intelligence and thus at least rudimentarily reminds of KITT. After installation, a lot of scenes are also missing that would have made the film more interesting for fans.
  • In 2009, the car from the movie was parked and "disposed of" in a junkyard in Pearsonville, California. The engine was removed so as not to cause major environmental problems. The car can be found via an aerial photo using Google Maps (Earth View) and the coordinates 35.80237, -117.872084. It is located on the left below the red target point and, with a little skill, can also be seen from the street in Street View. It is unclear how long it will be there before it finally gets into the scrap press.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Knight Rider 2010. In: Lexicon of international films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used