who played kitt in knight rider?
William Daniels
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 In June 2011 , Joby Harold was hired to rework the screenplay . By September , Warner approached Brad Pitt to star ; after he declined , the studio then approached Tom Cruise . Once Cruise accepted , the script changed the age of the leading role to fit the actor 's . In December 2011 , Cruise officially joined the film . Emily Blunt entered negotiations to star opposite Cruise in April 2012 . Screenwriting duo Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman also delivered a draft of their own . 

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 In March , Robert Downey , Jr. entered discussions to be cast in the male lead role . In mid @-@ 2010 , Marion Cotillard attended a screen test for the female lead role . By August 2010 , Scarlett Johansson and Blake Lively were potential candidates for the role . In September , Cuarón received approval from Warner Bros. to offer the role without a screen test to Natalie Portman , who was praised for her performance in Black Swan ( 2010 ) at that time . Portman rejected the project because of scheduling conflicts , and Warner Bros. then approached Sandra Bullock for the role . In November 2010 , Downey left the project to star in How to Talk to Girls — a project in development with Shawn Levy attached to direct . The following December , with Bullock signed for the co @-@ lead role , George Clooney replaced Downey . 

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 Real people that Fox has portrayed include Prince Charles , in Whatever Love Means ( 2005 ) ; Wisley , one of Jane Austen 's suitors , in Becoming Jane ( 2007 ) ; and Sir Christopher Hatton , the Lord Chancellor of England in Elizabeth : The Golden Age , also released in 2007 . In addition , in that year Fox was seen on ITV as Cecil Vyse in Andrew Davies ' adaptation of A Room with a View based on E.M. Forster 's 1908 novel . He has expressed a desire to appear in a western , and to star as James Bond – the closest he got to the latter was losing the role of villain Gustav Graves in Die Another Day ( 2002 ) to Toby Stephens . 

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 Following the conclusion of the series in 2011 , Felton appeared in the 2011 film Rise of the Planet of the Apes , a reboot of the Planet of the Apes series . He had roles in minor films , appearing in the 2012 films The Apparition and From the Rough , and he starred as James Ashford in the critically acclaimed period drama film Belle ( 2013 ) , followed by roles in In Secret ( 2014 ) and Against the Sun ( 2014 ) . Felton 's 2016 films include the epic historical drama Risen , alongside Joseph Fiennes , and the period biopic A United Kingdom , alongside David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike . In 2016 , he will appear as a series regular in The Flash . 

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 Margot Kidder as Lois Lane : A reporter at the Daily Planet , who becomes a romantic interest to Clark Kent . The producers and director had a very specific concept for Lois : liberated , hard @-@ nosed , witty and attractive . Kidder was cast because her performance had a certain spark and vitality , and because of her strong interaction with Christopher Reeve . Over 100 actresses were considered for the role . Margot Kidder ( suggested by Stalmaster ) , Anne Archer , Susan Blakely , Lesley Ann Warren , Deborah Raffin and Stockard Channing screen tested from March through May 1977 . The final decision was between Channing and Kidder , with the latter winning the role . 
