With only a few days away before NBC’s 2-hour movie length premier of the new Knight Rider series I though I’d give you a final insight into the making of the program and also show you what Jay Leno thinks of KITT, the Shelby GT500KR.
Last week I posted about how KITT came about, it’s inception from a standard Mustang into the menacing ‘attack’ vehicle we have all seen.
Now for the show itself, and Edmunds has gone behind the scenes to give us an insight as to how it’s all come together. It’s the Templin Highway, a chunk of long-ago bypassed four-lane road, alongside California’s Interstate 5 “Grapevine.”
David Andron, the show’s 29-year-old writer-producer was very young when the original series went to air “It was ’82 to ’86. So I was 3 or 4 years old when Knight Rider first aired and 8 when they took it off the air. And I loved the show as a kid. I remember going to Universal Studios and seeing the original KITT car. So I was very excited when NBC approached me about possibly being part of this, uh… re-envisioning.”
His re-envisioning? Well it’s a lot of carnage and a lot of Mustang muscle as Edmunds found out “Just behind Andron is the day’s set — a 2004 GMC Yukon XL Denali the production company had run head-on into a large reinforced concrete block at 70 mph and the “Attack” version of the Knight Industries Three Thousand Mustang. The gag here is that the SUV has run into KITT, destroying itself in the process while the car remains undamaged. The scene being shot is the aftermath. Some computer will replace that cement block with the Mustang in post-production.”
Get a sneak peak at the premier here:
Not surprised Jay Leno stepped in, he’s one of the most Goddly Muscle car guys alive!