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Will Arnett is a name is guaranteed to come up whenever great comedians and<\/em> voice acting talents of his generation are discussed. However, his level of skill doesn’t mean that he’s guaranteed to get the role he wants every single time. Indeed, while Arnett is a major name who’s known for his roles as Gob Bluth on “Arrested Development” and Vernon Fenwick in “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows” (among many others) he has missed playing at least one downright iconic character … though admittedly through no artistic fault of his own, and after he had already technically performed the role.<\/p>\n In 2008, NBC was working on a reboot TV movie of the iconic 1980s show “Knight Rider,” with future “Grey’s Anatomy”\u00a0and “Sweet Magnolias”\u00a0star\u00a0Justin Broening replacing David Hasselhoff as the show’s central human star and Arnett voicing the show’s iteration of the talking car K.I.T.T.\u00a0(voiced in the original show by “St. Elsewhere”\u00a0and “Boy Meets World” star William Daniels).\u00a0Arnett had already completed his work\u00a0when trouble loomed on the not-so-distant horizon:\u00a0Mere weeks before the air date, General Motors became aware of Arnett’s “Knight Rider” job, and didn’t particularly love the fact that someone with a years-long voice acting gig in their GMC Trucks ads was now playing a talking Ford Mustang. This conflict of interest forced Arnett to leave the show.\u00a0 <\/p>\n There’s a silver lining, however. While it would have been interesting to see (or rather, hear) Arnett’s take on K.I.T.T., his departure from the project led to one of the most fascinating last-minute recasting decisions out there when none other than Val Kilmer replaced Arnett as the voice of K.I.T.T.<\/a><\/p>\n