NBC press tour event today: Knight Rider panel

[KRAvengerII]

Co-executive producers Doug Liman and Dave Bartis brought in Thompson, who was a writer for The Fast and the Furious movie franchise, after the two-hour movie was picked up as a series, to bring in a little juice. His goal is to make the show as "fast and furious" as those movies. To that end, he's expanded the cast to create a whole team of people to support Mike Traceur and KITT. Thompson said they'll work from a headquarters called the "KITT cave."

"The idea is to assemble a whole team," said Thompson, somewhat dismissively to a question about the additional cast members. "And it's going to get pretty boring in today's age to watch a guy in a car talk for 43 minutes. No offense to anyone, but we live in an age where you have seen Mission: Impossible, Bourne Identity, the new Batman movies, Iron Man, and the audience wants that, and they are looking for that."

I really dislike the term KITT cave, they are just jokingly calling it that right? Or is it really what they are calling it in the show? I think KR has enough of its own history and lore to go on that it doesn’t need to steal from other franchises.
As for a modern audience needing the show to have a larger team… I don’t know, James Bond was a loner. And Iron Man was mostly a one man show, aside from some talking computers.
Come to think of it, we could have said of the original KR, “we live in a world of A-Team and Mission Impossible.”
Well, perhaps I will complexly change my mind once I get to see it at comic con.

would you prefer "fortress of KITTitude?"

[DJGM]

Perhaps the so-called "KITTcave" (be it jokingly or otherwise) is likely to be just an
average looking parking garage situated beneath whatever is used as Foundation
headquarters, with a suitably hi-tech area, where the new KITT's maintenance,
upgrades, and in some cases any necessary rebuilds/repairs, take place.

[pheonix_knight]

so in giving Ki3t a 'base' does this mean getting rid of the Semi or the update version, the plane...??

Ki3ts missions are gonna have to be pretty localised if this is the case...

[DJGM]

In the classic series, KITT had a maintenance area at FLAG HQ, although we rarely
saw it during the course of all 4 seasons. I guess the "KITTcave" in the new series
might only be seen occasionally, perhaps mainly for closing "epilogue" scenes.

As for whether there'll be a FLAG Semi in the new series remains to be seen . . .