The Knight Rider film has just taken a step forward to reality as the Weinstein Company has just completed a deal to acquire the rights from Glen A. Larson the series creator.

There's not really any more news than that from Coming Soon, but it does remind us what the show was about and reminds us what else Larson owns...perhaps we're looking for big screen remakes of The Fall Guy as well as Knight Rider and The Fall Guy.

"Knight" follows a cop who's been left to die and is nursed back to health by a mysterious millionaire. The moneyman also gives the cop a new face; a new name, Michael Knight; and crime-fighting gadgetry, including KITT, the car with artificial intelligence.

Another cheesy TV show for a remake. Well we've known about this for sometime but the project seemed to go a little stale. The word is that we're going to see a darker version of the Knight Rider with the humour being less in your face and cheese laden. That would be good, but no word on the original stars returning and nothing on that big hairdo.