David Hasselhoff announced for Baywatch Movie

• Danny Pape


• 3 Mar 2016

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:

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.