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Hitchhikers Guide To Be Made Into A Movie

Posted by timothy on from the and-not-just-a-miniseries dept.

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...."

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  1. Greg's Previews has had info on this for two years by merlyn · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

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  2. Re:I heard him talk about it once. by JimPooley · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, the producer who thought 42 was an anticlimax was Ivan Reitman.

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  3. Re:Who will play Arthur Dent? by JimPooley · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

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