For those of us who love plain action and futuristic cars, NBC announces the return on big screen of the 80’s series “knight Rider”, the story of a fighting hero and his talking car.

Directed by Steve Shill, also known for making “Dexter,”  “The Tudors,”  “Rome” and “Deadwood,” the two- hour movie is planned to appear on next spring.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, NBC has already contacted Justin Bruening to play the lead role, being Michael Knight’s son played by David Hasselhoff in 1982-1986.

There is known that there have been several times when David Hasselhoff, now 55 tried to revive the character of “Knight Rider”, the last time when he embodied the crime fighter Michael Knight being in 1991 in “Knight Rider 2000”

The movie is inspired by the success story of Michael Bay’s movie “Transformers” whose main stars are transforming cars into having good or evil intentions. According to Variety there’s a chance that in addition to Knight’s talking car, there will also appear evil cars that Knight and his K.I.I.T. will have to fight with. The theme remains the same, only the special effects will know a significant improvement.

As a reincarnation of the former “Knight Rider”’s lead character, David Hasselhoff who seemed to have had soap operas roles in “The Young and the Restless”, Justin Bruening , a former model played Jamie Martin for 4 years in “All My Children. “ His contract with the producers of “All My Children” expired this summer when he joined the NBC project.

Produced by “Bourne Identity” director Doug Liman who also directed “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” “Knight Rider” movie can become a “back-door pilot” for another series if the ratings turn to be good.