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Having rebooted the Karate Kid to acclaim (and Netflix success!) with Cobra Kai, writers Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg, and Josh Heald are turning their attention to another '80s fan-favorite: the supercar action series Knight Rider, which they’re in discussions to bring to the big screen.

For those of you too young to remember the original Knight Rider, good for you for your lack of aching bones; it was a television series that ran from 1982 through 1986 starring David Hasselhoff and a car. That’s not a joke; Hasselhoff played Michael Knight, a former cop who became a secret agent for the Foundation for Law and Government — FLAG for short — and partners with KITT, a near-indestructible Trans Am with a smart-aleck AI voiced by William Daniels, who’s better known to many as Principal Feeny on Boy Meets World. Together, the two traveled the US to maintain law and order, and solve small scale problems with as many stunts as possible.

The show itself may not have been particularly memorable, but the opening titles certainly were, especially if you're a Busta Rhymes fan. (He sampled it for 1997's unbeatable 'Turn It Up/Fire It Up.')

That original series was enough of a hit that it’s been revived multiple times, with the TV movies Knight Rider 2000 and Knight Rider 2010 (made in 1991 and 1994, respectively, despite the titles), as well as a 2008 reboot series titled, simply, Knight Rider. Now, it’s time for KITT and Michael to drive into theaters.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the high concept behind the movie remains a mystery, but the collective of Hurwitz, Schlossberg, and Heald are in talks to write and producer the movie with Hurwitz and Schlossberg in discussions to direct.

That’s not the only retro project the trio is said to be working on, according to THR; they’re also behind a new Harold & Kumar movie, and have written what’s called “a spinoff of 1980s classic Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” that will follow the two valets who took off with the Ferrari during the original movie. At this rate, nothing from our collective childhoods is safe from these three and their rebooting powers — which means that we need to remind them that Krull exists as quickly as possible. It might be our only hope of ever getting that guy back up and running. 

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