Comic-Con: 'Knight Rider' gets rebooted (again); 'Las Vegas' seeks a resolution

It's no surprise that Gary Scott Thompson, the guy behind The Fast and the Furious, is the showrunner for NBC's upcoming reboot of Knight Rider. And it's a good thing, too, because the man had nothing to do with the two-hour TV movie/backdoor pilot that aired on NBC in February -- you know, the one that prompted little or no excitement from those who loved the original 1982 series starring David Hasselhoff.

After a five-minute featurette of the new version was shown to hordes of fans--and after all of the cast and crew finally made it to the show's Comic-Con panel following traffic woes--the questions started coming in, well, fast and furious. Most of the audience members grew up with Hasselhoff and KITT during the '80s--and they're a rabid bunch. The most important detail to them? That KITT have a turbo boost that makes the car jump. One fan even demanded that Thompson go on record and promise that he'd make it happen. Thompson said he would, adding that the show's producers have an impressive amount of technology at their fingertips. After all, in 2008, we're all comfortable with having our cars tells us what to do--but KITT is a "super GPS," so advanced that he even analyzes his owner's relationship with Sarah (Deanna Russo). "Are you a homosexual?" KITT asks his human, Mike Tracer (played by Justin Bruening, pictured).

Bruening himself acknowledged the series will be a departure from the backdoor pilot, noting "the biggest change is clearly a visual one...one that's more cleaned up compared to the pilot." Thompson added that he felt the "man has to have a team behind him, so that the man and the car work, so that it's just not a guy and a car." That seems code for giving the main character more of a mythology and having him reconcile his past with his present.

Another fan asked whether there would be any crossover between Las Vegas and Knight Rider. ...

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