Whiz of the Web: Thirsty Thursday

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you.

• Even though Will Arnett's performance as the voice of K.I.T.T. in the upcoming Knight Rider TV movie was already done and in the can, he's now been replaced with Val Kilmer due to a conflict of interest: Arnett has done voicework on GMC truck commercials for over a decade, and K.I.T.T. is a Ford Mustang. This sounds like a joke, but it's apparently really true.
• British rock group The Answer revealed a couple of interesting details about the upcoming Guitar Hero IV game in a recent press release: one of the songs on the soundtrack will be "Never Too Late" by The Answer, and the game will be released at the end of this year.
• In an interview recently, McG, director of the upcoming The Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins, was asked who his dream Terminator would be. He mentioned Russell Crowe and Eric Bana, and then said Josh Brolin's name in a way that's making movie blogs everywhere wonder whether he's the guy who'll actually be playing the role in the new movie.
• If you haven't heard already, the official cause of Heath Ledger's death is "an accidental overdose of painkillers, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medication and other prescription drugs."
• A short political musical web film is on the way entitled Barackula: The Musical. It features Justin Sherman playing Barack Obama during the time in his life when he was trying to "stave off a secret society of vampires at Harvard." Brilliant!
• The latest on the writers' strike: meetings are scheduled for Saturday wherein WGA leaders will try to convince members that the new tentative contract agreement is a good one. Then they'll vote on it, and if it's approved, WGA leadership could send its members back to work as soon as Monday, although the strike apparently won't officially be over until everything is ratified, which will take at least another two weeks.
• The world's first exclusively online horror film festival, Insomnifest, runs from February 11 to 24, showcasing twelve new (or little-seen) scary movies from around the world. It costs $5 per movie to watch. Cinematical has a short interview with the founder and a detailed run-down of all the films.
• It's a little old, but still funny: the candidates in the Republican primaries, expressed in terms of the Buffy villains they most resemble. (Via)