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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. Is it really? by doc_traig · · Score: 2, Insightful
    It seems a shame that Hollywood had to wait until his death before they took him seriously....

    Let's wait until we see the finished product before saying that. We just may be thankful Mr. Adams didn't have to suffer another Hollywood-ization.

    - DDT

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  2. oh no! by anzha · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I am having flashbacks of another favourite author's book being made into a non-existant-movie (at least in my world). Heinlein would have mourned _Starship Troopers_ and now its ole Doug's turn to spin in his grave...

    Please. Make the pain...stop. Thinking about this is making me ill...

    There's a glimmer of hope tho with the whole treatment that LotR has received.

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  4. Two words by Schnapple · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Terry Gilliam.

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  5. So is this going to be .. by OzPeter · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The movie of the original radio plays?
    The movie of the books of the original radio plays?
    The movie of the TV series of the books of the orginal radio plays?

    Because they were ALL different. And I much prefer the radio plays.

    (And I think there was also a soundtrack recording of the TV series in there as well)

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  6. The trilogy was a novellization. by KFury · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How soon we forget: The books were novelizations of the Hith-hikers Radio Scripts, a 12-installment radio programme.

    "We had nothing in common: I liked watching movies made from books I'd read. She like reading novelizations of movies. It's no wonder she finished Lord of the Rings so fast."

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  7. Ford Prefect - Jeff Goldblum? by Hentai · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Actually, I've always seen Jeff Goldblum as Ford Prefect; the description of someone whose social behaviors are just a little 'off', who smiles a little too eagerly and too earnestly, and who very deadpanly explains the end of the world just somehow pings off in my mind as his traits (especially look at his earlier, campier performances, like Buckaroo Banzai or Earth Girls are Easy)

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  8. final installment???!!! by frovingslosh · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Apparently they are getting some other script writer to finish off Douglas Adams final installment

    This makes no sense at all. How many book do they intend to span with the first movie? I would think they would have a hard time doing justice to even the first book in a single movie. If they are going to get to the final book it will be a disaster. There is certainly no reason to do anything with the final book until after they see if the first movie is a hit.

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  9. Re:Truer words were never spoke by prnz · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Agreed, but NOT until he finishes Good Omens. I want to see Gilliam's vision of that even more than HHG.

    Paul

  10. Re: Going to Reserve Judgement on This One by Black+Parrot · · Score: 2, Insightful


    > It's nice to see Hollywood making at least one "non-teen-idol goes on a road trip/goes to college and finds them self" movie for next year.

    Hey - I liked Lord of the Rings.

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  11. Zaphod - Bruce Campbell by lowe0 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Clearly, the only man who can play Zaphod is Bruce Campbell. Just pull out your copy and let his voice read some of the lines in your head. Trust me, Bruce is the only man who could deliver, "If there's anything more important than me, I want it caught and shot." (Yeah, I probably misquoted. I'm too lazy to reach the two feet away my copy is sitting and look it up.)

    I hope someone gets this script to Bruce... I'd love to see the role go to him.

  12. Animated... by MsGeek · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Frankly, I have always thought that H2G2 would be best done as an animated movie. My choice to do the honors: Pixar, with John Lasseter as director. This would mean that Pixar would be forced to do a movie with a fair amount of humans in it, but considering how well they did humans in Toy Story II and Monsters Inc. they are up for the task.

    Back when Disney had the movie rights, this would have actually had realistic chances of success. Now that Disney and The Ego Who Ate The World, aka Steve Jobs, are feuding and Disney apparently lost the rights, this is highly unlikely.

    H2G2: International Guidebook Of Mystery? It doesn't look good folks...[sigh]

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