David Hasselhoff announced for Baywatch Movie

David Hasselhoff has a cult status for his role as Mitch Buchanan in the original Baywatch TV series and so fans of the franchise will be delighted to hear that it’s now been announced that he’ll be returning for the movie reboot.

Dwayne Johnson revealed the news via an Instagram video which you can see below:

"I WAS BORN READY!" Pleasure to officially welcome the original #BAYWATCH gangsta himself David Hasselhoff to our movie! #BAYWATCH is the most successful TV show of all time and from the day we announced we were turning it into a movie, "The Hoff" has been our greatest supporter. Especially once he knew our RATED R movie was going to be a combination of AVENGERS meets ANCHORMAN….???Hoff's a cool dude who's down to have fun and here's the best part.. He's been training his ass off and gotten in the best shape he's been in in years! (cue slo-mo running and glistening chest hair.. wait, why the f*ck am I even thinking about Hoff's chest hair!?) World get ready.. #RockAndHoff #ThereAintNoBay #WithoutTheHoff ???

A video posted by therock (@therock) on Mar 2, 2016 at 6:45pm PST

The video shows Johnson Facetiming with Hasselhoff, who confirms that Mitch Buchanan “was born ready”. Johnson adds: “There ain’t no Bay without The Hoff – get ready world!”

The film also stars Zac Efron, Alexandra Daddario and Kelly Rohrbach and you can expect to see Baywatch with The Hoff featuring sometime in 2017.