
According to recent reports hunky ex-All My Children soap star Justin Bruening is set as the lead in NBC’s two-hour pilot Knight Rider, a Transformers-inspired sequel to the 1980s series, which is slated to air as a movie later in the season.
And like father, like son, the choice of Bruening closely resembles Hasselhoff’s casting a quarter-century ago. Hasselhoff , like Bruening, was a soap star (“The Young & the Restless”) with few other credits when he landed “Knight Rider.” He was almost the same age as Bruening, who is 28.
Doug Liman and Dave Bartis are executive producing for Universal Media Studios and Dutch Oven Productions. Steve Shill is set to direct and co-exec produce “Rider,” which was written by Dave Andron.