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Hitchhikers Guide To Be Made Into A Movie
tonywestonuk writes "The Beeb are reporting that The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series will be made into a Hollywood Movie. Apparently they are getting some other script writer to finish off Douglas Adams' final installment (I pessimistically wonder how awful this will make it.). It seems a shame that Hollywood had to wait until his death before they took him seriously...."
Always check Greg's Previews for useful information on upcoming movies. In fact, he used to be upcomingmovies.com, one of my most visited sites.
The Hollywood version is sure to disappoint after this practically word for word BBC version.
Since Hitchhiker's was originally a radio play it would be a lot of fun to start a pool on what a hollywood screen writer will have to do to the story to make it "work" for film :-)
In case anyone is not aware, the HGTTG web site the article mentions is http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/. It's the most ambitious, IMHO, of Douglas Adam's projects. Basically, it's an online Guide that you submit information to, the way the Guide in the books is described. It's been running for a few years now, and has quite a bit of stuff.
The page that DNA submitted about the site can be found here.
Of course, I'm such a nerd that I've actually submitted an article. Yes, I know I'm a geek....
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Actually, Geoffrey McGovern was Ford in the radio show and David Dixon was Ford in the TV series. But, Mark Wing Davey was Zaphod in both. Oh, and you have your Jones's backwards. :)
Actually, the producer who thought 42 was an anticlimax was Ivan Reitman.
"Information wants to be paid"
Instead of stealing Disaster Area's ship, they steal a super-evolving species' war ship. The TV series most likely changed it because they couldn't find a ravenous bug-bladder beast of trall in time. Read the Book or listen to the radio series (IMO they are much better).
The reason that changed was because the Haggunennon sequence of the radio series (together with most of episodes 5 and 6 of the radio series) was written by John Lloyd who was called in to help out as Adams was too busy working on Doctor Who to complete the scripts in time.
Adams took out all of John Lloyd's material when he wrote the book - which rather surprised Lloyd as he'd thought they were going to write the book together. Lloyd did write The Meaning Of Liff with Adams though.
"Information wants to be paid"
"I heard him talk about it once."
Yes, it was in 1984 when he first told the world that a film version was coming soon, and he was justing finishing off the script! It was on the front page of a (now long defunct) computer magazine.