''Killing Hasselhoff'' is a 2017 American

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directed by

Darren Grant Darren Grant is an American television, film and music video director. He has directed over eighty music videos for mostly R&B and hip hop artists. In 2005, Grant directed his debut film Tyler Perry's ''Diary of a Mad Black Woman''. In 2008, he ...

, and starring

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and

David Hasselhoff David Michael Hasselhoff (born July 17, 1952), nicknamed "The Hoff", is an American actor, singer, and television personality. He has set a Guinness World Record as the most watched man on TV. Hasselhoff first gained recognition on ''The You ...

. The film was released on DVD and digital platforms on August 29, 2017.

Plot

A man, who is down on his luck, attempts to win a celebrity

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by trying to kill David Hasselhoff. The prize is half a million dollars, which he can use to pay off a loan shark and get his life back on track.

Cast

Production

Writer Peter Hoare was unhappy with the way the script was rewritten during production. He told ''Script Magazine'', “Little by little, what I saw was the movie changed into something that was so different than the movie I originally wrote, and that David read, so many years before. Long story short, it came out on DVD, but man, it could have been really, really funny.”

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* American action comedy films WWE Studios films 2017 films Films directed by Darren Grant David Hasselhoff 2017 action comedy films 2010s English-language films 2010s American films {{2010s-action-film-stub