According to Variety, Michael Fassbender is set to appear alongside David Hasselhoff in a feature-length sequel to Kung Fury, David Sandberg’s gleefully ridiculous and extremely radical short from 2015. The original was a partly Kickstarter-funded tribute to ‘80s martial arts and cop movies, with Sandberg starring as…
For the past couple of years, The A.V. Club has used its 11 Questions feature to ask celebrities about their first concerts and most embarrassing phases. Part of that feature—the 12th question—also asked the interviewee to come up with a question for the next interview subject without generally knowing who they were.…
In 11 Questions, The A.V. Club asks interesting people 11 interesting questions—and then asks them to suggest one for our next interviewee.
Though much of the excitement around Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 has been turned down to a simmer while we await the heroes’ appearance in Infinity War, there’s still some fun to be mined from the acid-washed sequel—mostly at David Hasselhoff’s expense.. Take this cameo-filled video for his contribution to the…
Though the Baywatch movie ended up dead in the water here in the States, that feature-length compilation of hard bodies in slow motion has gained some traction abroad. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Seth Gordon’s film hit the $12 million mark in the U.K., but that number was trounced by the box-office take in…
After Marvel released the Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 set list earlier this week, fans set about compiling these tunes into their very own awesome mixtape/playlist, as if they needed another reason to listen to “Surrender.” But there was one song that eluded them—“Guardians Inferno,” an original track written by…
In the most literal realization yet of his aimless coasting, aboard a vessel whose hollowness allows it to remain steadfastly buoyant, David Hasselhoff has announced David Hasselhoff: The Official World Fan Cruise, a shadowy flight into the dangerous man of a world who does not exist outside of self-promoting kitsch,…
In 2016, the Syfy brand exists in something of a split personality state, less a unified front than the network equivalent of Two-Face’s scarred coin. On the shiny side is the network that remembers it was once the home of Battlestar Galactica and wants to be a home for interesting and progressive genre fare like …
According to Digital Spy, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has confirmed two predictable developments with the new R-rated Baywatch movie: David Hasselhoff will indeed appear in the forthcoming comedy, and his chest hair will be coming along.
King Of Kong and Horrible Bosses director Seth Gordon is in negotiations to helm Paramount’s big-screen adaptation of Baywatch, a show about torsos saving other torsos from drowning while even more torsos look on helplessly. Several directors have been attached to the project at various points, including Reno 911’s…
Another year, another formerly-futuristic car for sale: Julien’s Auctions is holding one of its Hollywood Legends auctions to sell off priceless memorabilia to the highest bidder on June 26-27, and Knight Rider fans and/or Hoff hounds with roughly $200,000 to spare can purchase one of the cars that “portrayed” KITT in…
If one is going back in time to fight a kung fu Hitler, one will probably need a kickass theme song to accompany one. And who better to deliver that anthem than Germany’s favorite adopted son, David Hasselhoff? Kung Fury is an over-the-top film that was successfully funded on Kickstarter and will debut on YouTube on…
The Sharknado movie series—in which once-popular TV stars engage in self-aware kitsch in the hope of becoming Internet memes, leaving a sloppy trail of destruction in their wake—will now be joined by the human version of that, David Hasselhoff. The Wrap reports that the former Knight Rider and Baywatch star has been…
As revealed by Yahoo, famous Canadian singer Justin Bieber will provide the voice of KITT, the talking car from Knight Rider, in that movie about Ken Jeong trying to kill David Hasselhoff. Now, that’s pretty weird on its own, but the story of how Bieber got into the movie is even weirder. The way Hasselhoff tells it,…
Newsreaders, the Childrens Hospital spin-off that does for 60 Minutes what Childrens Hospital does for Grey’s Anatomy, returns to Adult Swim this fall for a second season of fake news and faker reporters. And now, thanks to this A.V. Club exclusive (he wrote, turning thoughtfully-yet-approachably toward camera 2),…
Because recent events have proven that there’s nothing quite as lighthearted or amusing as the death of someone who’s been a lasting part of the cultural consciousness for decades, Ken Jeong has signed on to star in an upcoming comedy about a down-on-his-luck nightclub owner who tries to raise money to cover his debts…
The British media company UKTV has announced that David Hasselhoff will star in a six-episode comedy series called Hoff The Record. The show will air on Dave, UKTV’s comedy channel. RadioTimes is among the outlets characterizing the show as a “Curb Your Enthusiasm-style comedy,” on account of its semi-improvised…
