KITTed out with super-gizmos for Knight Rider film

TV’s MOST advanced crime-fighting car is back, and fans of the hi-tech, talking KITT driven by Michael Knight (played by David Hasselhoff) in the Knight Rider series have been promised even more thrills this time round.

As well as signing up The Hoff himself for a cameo role in the two-hour movie pilot, which airs on US TV next year, the producers have rallied a cast of fresh faces.

Among them is a beautiful young actress with an unmistakable Hollywood pedigree —- Sydney Poitier. After appearing in Grey’s Anatomy and Veronica Mars, the daughter of Oscar-winning In The Heat Of The Night star Sidney Poitier has bagged a breakthrough role in the crime caper sequel.

As feisty FBI agent Carrie Ruvai, 34-year-old Ms Poitier locks horns with Justin Bruening, who plays an estranged son forced to take on his father’s Knight Rider mantle.

KITT has been fitted with every 21st-century gizmo going, including a super-computer capable of hacking into any other system and bodywork capable of changing shape and colour on command.