New Writer Revs Up For "Knight Rider" Movie

The Los Angeles Times reports that The Weinstein Company has hired "Wild Hogs" and "Arrested Development" scribe Brad Copeland to re-draft the script for the long discussed "Knight Rider" movie.

Based on the popular 1980's NBC TV series that had David Hasselhoff sitting in the driver's seat of souped up talking car named KITT--voiced by William Daniels.

The project has been in development for some time. The hope is to turn the project into a big-budget and action-oriented film with the goal of launching a potential Fast and the Furious film franchise style film series.

Copeland's comedy writing history though suggests that the potential film will also have a humorous tone.

"Knight Rider" was previously rebooted as a short-lived TV series on NBC in 2008--starring Justin Bruening as the estranged son of Hasselhoff's character and had Val Kilmer as the voice of Kitt, .